Amazon has announced it plans to make a push into the education market by introducing Kindle Whispercast, a service for centrally managing all the Kindles used in a system. The online retailer faces off against Apple, which has been firmly entrenched in the education market for quite some time and shows no signs of losing steam. […]
In my last article about how technology is bringing bicycling into the 21st century, I stated that much of that forward push is from accessories. A big part of smart phone accessories is cases to protect your smart phone from everyday bumps and drops, but also from the elements and from hardcore, physical activities. I spent this […]
The mechanics of bicycling have not changed much in the last 50 years. Anyone who saw a bike 50 years ago would look at a bike today and see something that mechanically looks about the same. Materials used in building a bike have definitely kept up with the times because bicyclists always want a lighter […]
Last week, Yoni Gross wrote an article comparing four different storage cloud vendors, including the long-awaited Google Drive. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses, with their own devoted followers. Personally, I’ve been using Dropbox for several years. I started with the free 2 GB, and through referrals and the doubling of the referral bonus, […]
From its inception, Google Earth has been an amazing application. For the average computer user, the application was thought of at first as little more than a cool toy, with interesting ways to see things but not very useful ones. Then, features were added to get directions. Google Maps were much better for directions though […]
A start-up company has recently come out of stealth-mode and its technology is going to change how companies think about cloud-computing. Numecent announced new technology they’re calling cloudpaging. It allows companies to turn software, any software, into a cloud app and rent the apps out for whatever length of time they want. The first step […]
Social media has invaded everything we do with communities that we actively take part in every day like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Using social media can let us keep in touch with people in a good way. Other times, it’s a case of information overload or simply TMI. The younger generation of doctors who have […]
I’ve been a user of Palm/PalmOS PDAs/smartphones for over a decade. I had a Palm III, a Handspring Visor with the SprintPCS Springboard, Treo 600, Treo 650, and the webOS Palm Pre. I’ve been a Sprint customer for over 12 years, so all of these devices have been CDMA versions on Sprint. I was an […]
My wife received an iPad 2 as a gift in September and loves it, but my kids know how to use it better than she does. She uses the Gmail app, Safari, and that’s pretty much it. So, why are there about 150 more apps on the iPad? To keep the kids occupied of course. […]
Last month, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for bankruptcy and in an effort to survive has made a not so surprising announcement that it’s killing off the entire part of its business that sells digital cameras, digital frames, and pocket video cameras in hopes of saving $100 million a year. Kodak brought cameras to the […]
