There is no way to ignore the tremendous popularity that the Apple iPad has achieved in a very short time on the market. The week the iPad was launched, the excitement that people showed was equivalent to the coming of a rock star to town or the launch of a hugely anticipated new movie. Of [...]
The iPad Took the mobile computing market by storm in the last few months. So it stands to reason that there are plenty of big internet and mobile communications companies that want a piece of the pie. The announcement that Google and Verizon were working on their own version of a pad style technology should [...]
Some people feel that the PC is threatened in existence by smartphones. Therefore some people get stuck in the past and they don’t want to accept the phones as part of the advances in technology. On the other side of the coin are people who become such diehards for smartphone technology that they reject the [...]
The ability to simply speak to a machine and have it respond flawlessly has been the stuff of science fiction for a long time. Just consider the wonderful relationship between HAL and the human astronauts in the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey
There is no getting around the fact that when the IPad hit the market a few weeks ago, it was a genuine phenomenon. It has to drive the powers that be at Google and Microsoft crazy how easily Steve Jobs at Apple seems to be able to put their fingers on what “the next big thing” is and get that to the market. What remains for the other giants of the computer industry to do is to play catch up
The term “Big Brother” comes from a futuristic novel by George Orwell named 1984 which envisioned a future where the government would have monitors everywhere that allowed them to watch every movement in society. When Orwell wrote that novel and the year 1984 was the future, that was a ridiculous and scary proposition. But technology has moved along tremendously since then. Between increased security monitoring to fight terrorism and the good and bad uses of GPS technology, more than one doomsayer has been calling for a 1984 situation in our modern technological world.
Your First Home Office Network “Telecommuting” – it’s the only way to fly! Being able to work from home will change how you think about work. And setting up a home network is easier now than ever. Gone are the days when you had to study wheel vs. ring vs. serial diagrams – network [...]
Comparing Touchscreens and Keyboards The home user has only to take a moment to consider whether they like touchscreens or keyboards, but the business owner and industrial provider has to ponder the question more deeply. The question changes when you’re ordering for thousands of employees. We’ll discuss ramifications for both here. Keyboards [...]
There needs to be a Gadget for everything? Right? Well given that cardboard is so 1980′s and every item of clothing will soon need to have a battery to make it “do something” – the MingleStick fills an age-old niche. The business card replacement. While I can’t see companies handing out MingleSticks instead of business [...]
Over and over, we keep hearing about drives to bring a personal mobile computer to every student. There was the famed – but ultimately ill-fated – XO Laptop, which was to be cheaply produced and sold directly to governments around the world for their citizen’s use. There’s now about 12 versions of their story out [...]
