Technology

Pinterest Nation – The One Percent Are Laughing At You

March 27, 2012

Question – If you were one of the infamous 1% of the US population, and maybe you are, would you be Pinning and Facebooking and Tweeting all day? Or, would you just be counting your money looking at the rest of us fools wasting our lives away dreaming that the copyright protected image we just [...]

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New Study – ID Theft Is On The Rise – Watch Your Google Wallet

March 27, 2012

I have some personal experience with the subject matter below. About a year ago my credit card number was lifted at a gas station near my home in CA. And while the heinous criminals only used it to buy some music online it still felt pretty weird when I understood how easy it was for [...]

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Hello Facebook Nation – Big Brother Is Watching

March 27, 2012

A new poll confirms 85% of people worldwide connect through social media or email. Which means, most everything we do online is being monitored by someone, somewhere. The era of Big Brother has officially arrived. Yeah! Now all we have to do is convince the other 15% to sign in, log on, and get addicted. [...]

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Apple Configurator App Easily Deploys Devices

March 18, 2012

TheNextWeb reported recently that following its iPad announcement, Apple quietly released a tool on their App Store that “makes it easy for anyone to mass configure and deploy iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in a school, business, or institution.” Called Apple Configurator, the company says that the new app makes it easy to “prepare new [...]

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Facebook Fan Gate Code

March 16, 2012

It appears the Facebook Fan Gate as used in Facebook Pages was rendered obsolete during the conversion to Timeline for Pages.  Bummer.  I was never a big fan of it anyway – no pun intended. Never fear though, the Fan Gate is alive and well.  You just have to apply its usage on your own [...]

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Apple CEO Tim Cook – “iPads Will Outsell PC’s”

February 16, 2012

Personal computing has always been about scale and mobility. The original vacuum tube computers filled entire buildings. The integrated circuit solved that problem and gave rise to the personal computer. The PC gave rise to the laptop. The laptop gave rise to the smart phone. The smart phone doubled-back to spawn the iPad, generically known [...]

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Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook at Goldman Sachs

February 15, 2012

This article is a reprint (Tech CNN Fortune) – link to original article at bottom. Ironically this article touches on my two favorite subjects; Apple and Goldman Sachs – one a hero, the latter… villain. Forty five minutes with the man who took over when Steve Jobs stepped down For those of you who missed [...]

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Is Steve Jobs Rolling Over In His Grave Already?

February 15, 2012

My personal belief is that Steve Jobs is the greatest American businessman of the last century.  So when he made adamant statements about product development and the limitations thereof – he was almost always proven right. How soon the lessons our hero passed on are seemingly forgotten.  It appears that Apple successors are already testing [...]

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Is Apple Building An 8-Inch iPad?

February 14, 2012

Is Apple about to spring a new iPad configuration on the world? If you believe the gossip coming out of Taipei, we’ll soon have a new toy to fit into our already over-gadgetized lives. Awesome…

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And Google Comes Out Swinging – Microsoft On The Ropes

February 2, 2012

And Google comes out swinging… Google responded to Microsoft’s accusations that Google’s new privacy policies serve Google first, and users second. The search giant published a blog post written by policy manager Betsy Masiello, in hopes of sorting out the myths and facts behind its new privacy policy. The post seeks to dispel seven “myths” [...]

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