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…
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…
iTech News: Facebook’s Competition, Sulia, Screen Sharing
The web moves quickly and sites come and go, but who would have thought that one day Facebook might go the way of MySpace? Well, new apps, new functions, new…
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 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…
iTech Review 2013: 3D Printing, Mobile Wars, Flexing Phones, etc.
A new year and new technology is eagerly busting into our lives… not that it doesn’t happen pretty much every Monday throughout the year but that title would be too…
What Can Mobile Apps Do for Your Business?
If you haven’t used an app for one business or another… then you are dead and may you rest in peace. Now, don’t get mad and scream, “I’m not dead!…
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…
Real-Time Marketing: What is It and How Do YOU Do It Effectively?
Marketing use to be a leisurely pastime of sorts. Weeks of meetings, focus groups, reading and analyzing statistics, three-martini lunches and over several months, the plan was laid for product…
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…
Will NFC Communication Make QR Codes Obsolete?
The world is starting to go nuts over QR codes. They are on packaging, posters, web sites, business cards and, well, just about everything. A quick scan using a free…