According to Mashable, the hot items at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) included a computer-in-a-watch and a wristband that measures sun exposure. Engadget put on its CES “best of” list a wristband that tracks your activity and reminds you to work out. As...
Disney Corporation is testing a wearable technology that enables the company to track the movement of people in and around its theme parks. The new MagicBand looks like a watch-less wrist band and contains an RFID chip. Disney clearly intends for the bands to replace...
Ever feel like you're reading the same stuff over and over again? Writing is easy. Identifying topic "buckets" is easy. Developing fresh content (and resisting the urge to just recycle the social media meme-of-the-day) is harder. A lot of bloggers end up taking the...
By now you've probably heard that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is purchasing the Washington Post. It's always noteworthy when a major media company changes hands--and often, in my opinion, this has not turned out to be in the best interest of journalism, readers, or an...
From 24/7 access to digital ubiquity, the ways that we find information, process data, learn, and make decisions are rapidly changing -- transforming us and our relationships with screens and with each other. It's also changing how we work. A new article looks at five...
From the network that said the ACA was overturned. RT @grahamdavida: BREAKING: Fragile strands of CNN credibility — Daria Steigman (@dariasteigman) April 17, 2013 The @braves lost a game?Did @cnn report that?I'm not sure I believe it. — Nationals 101 (@Nationals101)...
Google Glass is very cool. And if you can hook me up with a tangerine pair, that would be nice. But it's really just a smartphone, minus the ability to make phone calls. It's iterative technology. I love that Google explores boundaries and pushes the innovation...
I have a confession to make: My e-mail "system" has been a mess. Microsoft Outlook was structured to pull & store e-mail from legacy Internet companies with poor Webmail interfaces and small storage capacities. In came more and more mail, and the only way not to...
Do you like "Big Data"? McKinsey released an interesting report last year that does a good job of laying out the key ways data is being employed in a business environment. The report identifies five broad categories: Transparency Performance metrics Customer...
Did Facebook's debut ruin the market for tech companies? Of course not. Though perhaps it means future IPOs will be priced based on business factors. USA TODAY has an interesting article on the marketplace one month after Facebook's initial public offering. Buried...