Yahoo! fighting for its profitable life
“On a long enough timeline the survival for everyone drops to zero.” That paragon of pessimism comes courtesy of Chuck Palahniuk’s “Fight Club,” and the disturbing wisdom of the phrase [...]
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Posted November 05, 2014in Tech Talk
Posted October 29, 2014in Tech Talk
Google Fiber, the superhero ISP
Americans have a fantastic talent for yielding to malfeasance. Political shenanigans, continually rising college tuition, highway traffic jams, movie spoilers — these things and many more eventually become a fact [...]
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Posted October 22, 2014in Tech Talk
Convert a computer into a TV with Plex
It appears within 10 years the Internet will be one giant television. Every major Web entity is creating video content. Connections are slowly climbing to speeds that will easily stream [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Tech Talk
King of the creatives
Everyone likes to feel like he or she is creative. Whether you’re a photographer, an accountant or a plumber, artistry can found in practically any vocation. Still, the common definition [...]
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Posted October 08, 2014in Tech Talk
Nothing says romance like a smartphone
When marketing works, it really works. “Got Milk?” “Just Do It.” “Save Money. Live Better.” These slogans not only drilled their way into the brains of millions of Americans, they [...]
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Posted October 01, 2014in Tech Talk
Television: slowly forging into the future
The best thing about technology is it has virtually no ceiling. As great as your smartphone or laptop is right now, in five years it will look like a dinosaur. [...]
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Posted September 24, 2014in Tech Talk
Apple wasting time with iWatch
Apple’s iWatch looks beautiful. It is a stone cold fact that cannot be denied. The problem comes when you try to nail down its purpose. We’ve all heard the old [...]
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Posted September 17, 2014in Tech Talk
Put down your phone and read this
How long are you willing to wait for a website to load? Five seconds? Ten seconds? Good God, don’t let it happen to me… 15 seconds! Over the last two [...]
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Posted September 10, 2014in Tech Talk
Viva La Revolution Free
Since the turn of century, when the Internet began consuming our attention spans, we’ve all been champions of “Revolution Free.” Napster started the uprising with free music, content aggregators such [...]
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Posted September 03, 2014in Tech Talk
Stay tuned, Amazon’s gonna win
One of my favorite George Carlin’s one liners was simply “Stay tuned, China’s gonna win.” The sentiment is easy enough. China is a sleeping giant whose might will one day [...]
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