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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Gray-net.com
A UK organization is working to bridge the ‘Digital Divide’ amongst those citizens (40% of the total are supposedly over the age 75) who have never been online. This project is both commendable and potentially a resource of talent / … Continue reading
Back-to-Back!
One would think that (in this instance) once is enough. However, for EA that doesn’t seem to be the case as the company made the Final Four for the ‘Worst Company in America’ two years running now… perhaps they should … Continue reading
A Virtual Hoax?
According to the (current) ‘net rumors, the enclosed video is supposedly a prototype of a mobile phone from the 1930’s… note the date it was posted… (Source) YouTube: http://goo.gl/u8Gzs
Smart Bracelets.
While it’s a sad state-of-affairs that Aid Workers are regularly harassed (unfortunately) / kidnapped and sometimes (tragically) murdered, offering them access to tracking technology that sends out distress signals (using mobile technology) in order to try to more fully protect … Continue reading
The Balcony’s Closed.
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. – Roger Ebert.
The Big 4-0!
Middle Age… with the requisite aches and pains… Actually, it is clearly anything but that. If anything Smartphones (as they’re now largely known) seem to have found a sort of virtual ‘fountain-of-youth’ as the Mobile Phone marks a milestone birthday that … Continue reading
Synchronicity.
While it is indeed both commendable and technologically impressive that LA has synchronized all 4,500 of the cities’ traffic lights… it still means one thing: internal combustion driven commuting (e.g., cars) are the primary means of transportation. Nevertheless, as the … Continue reading
April Fools.
A fool may be known by six things: anger without cause; speech without profit; change without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger; and mistaking foes for friends.