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iTech Review: Great New Weird Apps!

Can you live without your mobile phone? Chances are, as with most humans, your phone is attached to your hand and being separated from it for more than two hours…

Geek Ethicist

Geek Ethicist: YUCK! Maybe Not

“Dear Ethicist– A couple of months ago I was sitting in a waiting room, flipping through magazines when I found an article that said smartphones (and tablets!) have more germs…

Are Cell Phones Stopping Us From Interacting?

It sounds odd that the most innovative personal communication device of all humankind’s history would also be the biggest stopping block to human interaction. Why would such an electronic marvel…

dna

DNA Storage: Life as Knowledge

500 KB double sided double density mini floppies, 3×5 hard disks, flash drives, usb drives, magnetic tape, removable hard drives…oh, the many and the fallen! History, littered with the remains…

The Next Big Money Makers

With the rise of gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), I thought I would begin an intermittent series of crystal ball readings on what the new .com revolutions of the 2-year…

.family 2013

According to a recent New York Times piece by Matt Richtel marriages in much of the world rarely last much longer than a decade or so. He suggests that marriage itself…

Mobile Sites and SMS Marketing: Are You Ready?

Ninety-eight percent of cell phone owners have their devices within reach one hundred percent of the time. The other two percent are my kids who always misplace them. Smartphones contain…