Don’t Call it a Virtual Comeback
Recounting the trove of unsuccessful entertainment mediums plays like a bad joke. Spectacular failures start with eight track, move quickly to betamax, skip a decade to laserdisc, followed 15 years [...]
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Posted January 14, 2015in Tech Talk
Posted January 07, 2015in Tech Talk
Let the Internet worry about what you wear
If there is one thing brick and mortar retail has over online shopping it is the hands-on, trial-run experience of being able to try something out before making a purchase. [...]
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Posted December 31, 2014in Tech Talk
Couch crashing goes legit with Airbnb
One of the most mouth-watering concepts in technology is that of disruption — when an entrenched way of conducting business is uprooted by an unforeseen new method. It happened repeatedly [...]
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Posted December 24, 2014in Tech Talk
Don’t give ho-ho-horrible tech gifts
There is truly no better time of year to give or get a gift than right now. No matter if you’re Christian, Jewish, celebrate Kwanzaa or simply indulge in the [...]
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Posted December 17, 2014in Tech Talk
Have the Trolls inherited the Internet?
What makes America so great? Without hesitation, you should have answered, “the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.” The Declaration states that each and every American is afforded the right [...]
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Posted December 10, 2014in Tech Talk
Technology feeds out discount price addiction
In 1963, when Andy Williams recorded “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” he must have immediately recognized it was an instant holiday classic. What he couldn’t have known [...]
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Posted December 03, 2014in Tech Talk
Microsoft fights through its tablet failures
One of the best qualities of being human is the ability to change one’s mind. Well, after two months of experiences that are simply irrefutable, I must admit that the [...]
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Posted November 26, 2014in Tech Talk
Today’s tech lies become fact tomorrow
For anyone with the slightest inkling of technological know-how, one word sends a shiver down the spine: “enhance.” In the fictitious worlds of television shows and movies, no image or [...]
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Posted November 19, 2014in Tech Talk
The importance of being socially cool
There are two things that launch upstart social networks from nothing to necessities: a feature that isn’t offered anywhere else, and being cool. While coming up with an original social [...]
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Posted November 12, 2014in Tech Talk
Meet the Smartphone: your new wallet
Anyone can point out the revolutionary technological advancements in the past 50 years — the personal computer, the cell phone, the Internet. The real trick is picking out the slow-burning [...]
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