When GigaOM held its recent Roadmap conference in San Francisco, a number of tech visionaries were in attendance, weighing in on what the future of technology might hold. During this event, there was one theme that seemed to recur: That technology will advance and evolve to a point when computing as we know it will disappear. Not that it will cease to exist, but rather, that it'll...
In Part 1 of my tech travel journal, I explained how I was traveling recently without a laptop. Well, actually, I did have one on my trip to San Francisco, but it was emergency backup only. Otherwise, with one tablet, three smartphones and a mobile hotspot, I presumably had more than enough to get some work done. After all, this is the promise of mobile technology, isn’t it? To liberate...
Black Friday, i.e., the Friday after Thanksgiving, is widely considered the biggest shopping day of the year. While some of us sequester ourselves, nursing our turkey hangovers, countless others bang down the doors at real and virtual stores to buy gifts (or take advantage of the numerous sales to hook a long-desired product for themselves). But trying to navigate this heaping lot of...
REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi Thursday evening, thousands of people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn as part of New York City’s arm of the #Occupy protests. As the masses made their way from the streets of lower Manhattan onto the pedestrian walkways of the bridge (a route I know well from my days of yore bumbling around NYC), a “Bat Signal” appeared on the...
Being away from home for nearly two weeks can be a tough proposition — especially when you leave home intending to work. You’re not packing suntan oil and swimsuits, but power adapters, accessories and other portables. Not that I’m complaining — after reading about Mike’s travels, I have to count my blessings. While he was lost and incommunicado in Australia, I was in the hyper-wired...
Walmart’s notorious price-matching strategy is getting even more aggressive this holiday season, the company announced Monday. The company plans to roll out an all new incentive, which runs from November 1 – December 25, that will guarantee consumers the lowest possible prices on qualified products. For early bird shoppers who have missed the best deals over previous holiday seasons,...
Whether you’re a female tech user tired of all the male-oriented gear out there (I hear ya, sister!), or a guy looking for gift ideas for the gadget girl in his life, there’s something for everyone out there. And perusing the webs, there have been some that have definitely gotten on this tech girl’s radar lately. Here’s a peek at a few: When did tech get so rocker glam? This retro...
Android owners are elitist super-geeks who pay a premium to beta test buggy software that never quite gets done. iPhone users are techno-ignorant, obnoxiously buying into under-specced gadgets and stale features as magical. Androiders are arrogant. iPhoners have Stockholm Syndrome. And BlackBerry and WinPho 7 users are just delusional. We've heard it all at this point, the rantings and...
How many times do you actually crack open a dictionary? I mean, actually opening up a book made of dead trees, flipping through the modern papyrus, and using your eyes to find a word? Probably not that often, as Microsoft Word spellcheck, Google autofill, and even iOS devices tell us what we want to say (autocorrect be damned). Me? I'm kinda partial. Two journalism degrees and a dozen...
Part 1 of “Roommate Relations” offered some tips for dealing with roomies. Those bits of advice will do wonders if the other person is a rational, level-headed person. But sometimes, you get saddled with someone who just defies logic. Maybe the school matches you up with a walking nightmare, whether because of bad attitude, bad hygiene, annoying habits or some other tick that drives you...