When international banking exec, Jacques Mechelany would strap himself into a plane seat, he’d wonder about his three kids…what if this was to be his last flight? Did he say what he wanted to say? Were his affairs in order? Would his kids really know who he is? That’s when he decided to give up [...]
Sometimes we get so entrenched in our traveling habits that it takes an event for travel press like the recent Connected Traveler Technology Showcase to open our eyes to some serious technology as well as gadgets and devices that make traveling more efficient and enjoyable. Here are some of them. My next post will look [...]
There’s a new kind of remotesourcing that is offering people an opportunity to keep their job while taking care of their kids. Visit Anybot headquarters in Mountain View and you’ll most likely be greeted by a pleasant-looking robot with an even more pleasant voice belonging to Suzanne, who is actually at home with her pink fuzzy slippers and kids, and [...]
Looks like the tablets are coming out from all over the place and the big boys are aiming squarely for Apple. And today’s announcement of the Kno tablet is a very exciting one indeed, particularly for the education market. I bought a 7” Pandigital Novel tablet from the Walgreen’s web site a couple of weeks ago. Yes, [...]
ABI Research has issued a report that pegs tablet PC sales at about 11 million in 2010, with Apple iPads leading the way, of course and taking the wind out of the sails, or shall we say sales of other tablet contenders. Still, we are seeing interesting and certainly affordable tablets running Android in the [...]
The introduction of the iPad was met with dire predictions that it would be an eReader killer but is that really the case? In a recent article industry pundit, Om Malik, praises Amazon’s move to open up the Kindle to developers and its plans to issue an SDK. Question is, for what kind of applications? [...]
Almost as soon as the iPad arrived the pundits were saying that it would cannibalize netbook sales. NPD Group countered Wall Street analyst Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley in May saying it was too soon to tell. But all the while, says Richard Brown of the blog, BrownKnows, everyone may be looking in the wrong [...]