Nowadays, it seems like we are connecting everything in our homes to Wi-Fi. Whether it's locks, lightbulbs or other appliances, people seem to like using their smartphones to control their home. Mr.

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: August 21st, 1961, 55 years ago today ... a musical date worth writing home about. For that was the day the Motown label released “Please Mr. Postman.

“Although they’re the hottest female rock’n’roll quartet in the nation with their Please Mr. Postman record, The Marvelettes can only work at weekends,” babbled Jet magazine in early December 1961.

Gladys Horton and Georgia Dobbins, from Inkster, Michigan, couldn’t sing – or so they thought. Along with three classmates, they called themselves The Casinyets (“can’t sing yet”), and took their ...

All right, all right, Mr. Postman really missed the 2013 holiday season, launching its Kickstarter campaign on Christmas Day. But hey, hopefully this means that the Insert Coin: New Challengers ...

In a prison cafeteria, the head of a gang is warned rivals are coming to get him. He seems nonplussed — for good reason, it turns out. The moment the shiv-carrying rivals appear, the prisoner pulls ...

Gladys Horton, lead singer of Motown girl group The Marvelettes whose hits included Please Mr Postman, has died aged 66. Horton died on Wednesday in a nursing home north of Los Angeles where she had ...

In Central Florida, eight postal workers have been keeping some of the more valuable mail they come across for themselves, prosecutors say. The take: a Louis Vuitton designer purse, cash and gift ...