Time to take BlackBerry off life support
The BlackBerry is dead. It doesn’t matter that it once dominated the planet. The classic BlackBerry design — with a half screen, half physical keyboard and a mouse-like selector button [...]
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Posted August 10, 2016in Tech Talk
Posted July 27, 2016in Tech Talk
The crowded field of web browsing
It is amazing how open the world seems once you realize you have options. Once you discover life exists beyond high school, you can do whatever you want, and for [...]
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Posted July 20, 2016in Tech Talk
It’s not really about Pokemon
We’re tired of Pokemon Go. Every major Iowa news outlet has beaten the game to death. Kids are playing it, adults are playing it, and I wouldn’t doubt it if [...]
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Posted July 13, 2016in Tech Talk
The Malware minefield that is Android
Why is it that we’re surprised when a relatively new piece of technology turns out to be permeable to wicked acts? Yes, you can hack planes, cars, cash registers, televisions, [...]
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Posted July 06, 2016in Tech Talk
All hail the digital map
If you are about to endeavor on a multi-generational vacation, prepare yourself for an odd occurrence — our elders’ reluctance to give up the paper map. For millennia, [...]
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Posted June 29, 2016in Tech Talk
Bluetooth about to become big time
Some technology doesn’t realize its full potential until it has had a chance to iterate through several iterations. A handful of social media rose and fell before Facebook dominated, cellular [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Tech Talk
The National Parks download the new century
Summer in America is all about adventure. The old adage is that we’re a country descended from immigrants and explorers, a people who aren’t satisfied to stay put and endure. [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Tech Talk
Google’s laptop insurgency
There have been two major camps throughout the history of comic books — D.C. and Marvel. Comic book fans were traditionally in one camp or the other. You were either [...]
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Posted June 08, 2016in Tech Talk
Apple, king of the computing realm
Very few businesses want to be known as the cheapest in town. For some consumers and products, quality is not as important as price. But when a retailer or [...]
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Posted June 01, 2016in Tech Talk
Alphabet and the plethora of messenger apps
Almost from the moment Steve Jobs passed away, technology pundits have been hounding Apple over its lack of innovation. It is almost as if Steve Jobs was the puppet [...]
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