Technology is obviously a great tool but it can be a great distraction as well. So use it to your advantage and for the benefit of your business. Wikipedia defines it as: "Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, and crafts."
Path To Your Personal Social Network Of 50 Friends
Saturday, November 20, 2010, 6:09 AM | 4 Comments
A new social network known as Path has debuted on November 15 that is very personal and can have no more than 50 close friends. You will share pictures you take every day with your mobile device with your closest friends and family. The three main figures behind Path are Dustin Mierau, Matt Van Horn, […]
What’s It With e-Readers – Dual-Screen Kno
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 5:06 AM | Leave Comment
Another e-Reader has come on board. This one is called Kno. I guess the founders didn’t like the “k” being so silent all the time in the word “know” so they called their portable device “Kno” as the new entry in the not-so-saturated-as-yet e-Reader market. That’s not the official explanation of the name, of course. […]
What’s It With SmartPhones – Exploding Market
Thursday, November 11, 2010, 5:21 AM | 9 Comments
Since the introduction of iPhone by Apple Inc. in 2007, the usage of smart phones have increased exponentially. Market for them is exploding. Before that year, cell phones were just that, cell phones. Making calls and sending occasional texts were the order of the day. I always said “those were the good old days.” But […]
New BIOS Will Speed Up PC Booting Process
Sunday, October 3, 2010, 9:34 AM | 5 Comments
A lot has changed since the advent of the PC (Personal Computer). The hardware has improved a lot, probably thousands of time better. With so much memory, you can almost swim in it. The software has also changed many times over. First it was entirely running MS DOS. Then Windows took over with a decent […]
New Tools For Financial Planning Advice Are Available Now!
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 4:17 AM | Leave Comment
I examined a couple of websites that are live for more than 3 years now in the landscape of the Internet. These online sites give you tools to help in planning your personal finances in the form of advice. One is HelloWallet and the other LifePlan that was a part of Smart Money which in […]
Do We Have Bunch Of Teenage Twits In The Nation’s Capital?
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 12:51 PM | Leave Comment
I can make a lot of comments on what’s going on in the nation’s capital especially on Capitol Hill but that would be from the outside what I have learned from the media. Folks working on the inside might know what’s going on in Congress. The members in both houses of Congress are supposedly representing […]
Use Old Technology To Help Earthquake Victims In Haiti
Monday, January 25, 2010, 12:46 AM | Leave Comment
We, the American people, can support the people of Haiti in their hour of need in a variety of ways. One way is to recycle old cell phones that are collecting dust in our homes. The earthquake has devastated their livelihood, their belonging and their dwellings are wiped out from the surface of our dearest […]
E-Readers Cannot Be The End of Bookstores
Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 6:20 AM | 1 Comment
Jason Young over at http://www.pcmag.com did an article on “E-Readers: The End of Bookstores?” Excerpts from the article Here’s the problem. The culmination of my bookstore experience is the process of taking my Kindle out and downloading the book(s) I’ve discovered through the wonders of the retail experience. That’s financial ruin for the bookstore. One […]
Kindle 2 Price Plunge Signals Market Competition
Thursday, July 9, 2009, 6:38 AM | Leave Comment
Nearly five months to the day after Amazon introduced its Kindle 2 E-reader, the company has decided to hack a full $60 off of the price tag in order to offer it to US consumers for $299. Yesterday, Amazon quietly lowered the price on its Kindle 2 e-book reader. That didn’t take long: The Kindle […]
Reading eBooks Off Of An eReader
Friday, April 17, 2009, 6:43 AM | Leave Comment
When I was a lot younger, I had the habit of reading books as well as two newspapers a day when I was living in New York City in the 70s. I was single and I would find the time to read. For a few years, I did not even have a TV set. I […]
