We travel a lot. Going to conferences and meetings keeps up on the road. While we stay pretty busy on the road, there is a good amount of downtime. This downtime can present quite a challenge. A lot of the time, we are in cites that we are completely unfamiliar with, meaning we have [...]
The memes are everywhere. Parents that grew up in the 70's, 80's and 90's are stumped by the new "Common Core" state standards in education. These standards are supposed to insure that kids in Omaha Nebraska are proficient in the exact same things that kids in Tallahassee Florida are. The idea behind common core seems [...]
As everything in the World, or so it seems, is getting smarter, a few things have been slow to catch up. One such product is cameras. Modern cameras are upgrading their technology at an almost exponential scale. However, there are a few areas in which they lag behind. The one aspect that sticks out [...]
As we have noted several times, the wearable market is pretty saturated. There are a few different reasons for this, but as of yet, there has yet to be any real solidly defined market. The market is still working itself out. That said, we just came across a new type of health wearable: the Ear-O-Smart: [...]
It seems that the reports of Nokia's demise may have been premature. Although the Finnish company sold its device business to Microsoft earlier this year, Nokia hinted that they would reenter the device market. This was all but confirmed with this cryptic tweet on Monday: Guess what? We’re up to something. http://t.co/AFq4dUFI9S #thinkingahead #Slush14 pic.twitter.com/sqERYpz0Vc — [...]
While Gen X and all the younger generations have had email their entire lives, Baby Boomers and older generations have not. Sure some of the baby boomer generation are familiar with good ole IBM desktops, Prodigy and AOL, and some may even be used to the newest trends in email, many seniors get intimidated by [...]
You know you already Facebook at work. You pretend that nobody sees you but then forget that your boss is also your Facebook friend, so whoops you're busted. In most cases, if you're not disrupting the work flow you get a pass. You can coo at your niece and nephews photos and read the latest [...]
If you own a Mac and you're not intimately familiar with Other World Computing (OWC) go ahead and check their site out now at http://macsales.com. The company offers do it yourself memory upgrades, storage upgrades and more, most are designed specifically for Mac. The ThunderBay 4 is a Thunderbolt enabled, affordable, external storage solution. It's [...]
There is no question that we are living in the most photographed age ever. Just about every new smartphone has a camera capable of taking incredibly detailed photos. With these advancements, however, photography has lost something. It used to be - way back when I was a kid - that you had to be very [...]
There have been hints and leaks trickling out that Microsoft would completely dump the Nokia branding - and to a lesser extent all Windows Phone branding. On Monday, these leaks were finally proven true, as Microsoft launched the Lumia 535. The phone itself is hardly worthy of news, as it is one of the lower end [...]
