The dream ends for Meerkat
Not everyone gets to work his or her dream job. Generations of children went through years of school dreaming of becoming an author. They read every book they could get [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Tech Talk
Posted March 09, 2016in Tech Talk
The FBI can take our smartphones from our cold, dead hands
How far are you willing to go for security? Pay for the largest military in the history of the world? Suspend your right to legal protection and the Fourth Amendment? [...]
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Posted March 02, 2016in Tech Talk
Customer experience is about to become a cable priority
Some things in life are painfully inescapable. If you’re a parent, at some point you inevitably become your child’s nemesis. No matter how friendly you are with your boss, on [...]
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Posted February 24, 2016in Tech Talk
Will Yahoo! firesale Tumblr?
Going-out-of-business sales are a bargain shopper’s dream. If you’ve done your homework and strike at just the right time, a penny-pincher can walk away with deals that are absolute steals. [...]
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Posted February 17, 2016in Tech Talk
The divine Musk of failure
Failure is a part of life. At some point, we all have to deal with it. Depending on when you encounter it for the first time, losing can either be [...]
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Posted February 10, 2016in Tech Talk
Mining outside innovators for gold
It may seem counterintuitive, but sometimes the best way to improve a product is to let others tinker with it. “Two heads are better than one” may be an annoying [...]
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Posted February 03, 2016in Tech Talk
Twitter enters its mid-life crisis
When a product fails to reach the revenue necessary to sustain itself, it’s a disappointment. It happens all the time with newspapers, bars, musical groups, films and web services. During [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in Tech Talk
GoPro is no longer the hero of Wall Street
During the last 18 months, American eardrums have been beset by the unending sound of Taylor Swift’s massively successful album “1989.” The record has spawned six culture-shaking singles, each with [...]
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Posted January 20, 2016in Tech Talk
We gather here to remember Motorola
Driving along Interstate 80 near Altoona, it is impossible to miss the three giant Facebook data centers being erected. Most people’s initial reaction to these warehouses is something along the [...]
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Posted January 13, 2016in Tech Talk
Underwhelm comfortably at CES
Paradigm-altering technology is almost always unveiled at a major event. “Go big or go home” may be an atrocious cliché, but successful marketing is rarely built around sneaking onto store [...]
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