There are already a lot of iPhones on campuses nationwide, but this time they are being given free to incoming freshmen at Abilene Christian University, in Abilene Texas. Faculty will be given the iPhone and the school will pay for the data plan, while the students will have to pay [...]
I mentioned in a previous post that Apple's iPhone and the Nokia Tube cell phone are both really more than cell phones; they are mobile computing platforms. The idea of mobile computing is an important one in that as it becomes a ubiquitous, and almost unnoticed technology, our ideas of [...]
Apple has done an excellent job selling the iPhone as a commodity the stylish need. Even before Apple announced the impending Exchange tie-in for corporate America the iPhone was the darling of many IT types; not to mention the entire designer and engineering communities. But now Google and its many [...]
Here is my last story on security and the new threats we are facing. On the surface, this hardly seems like the typical security issue, yet, it is indicative of the kinds of dangers technology has brought. A couple in Oregon temporarily pulled off a clever robbery when they ran [...]
Last night Google announced something that we should all take note of. Google App Engine is a platform that can do all of the things you can imagine your website or web application doing already, and more. If you are building your first startup or writing code for the enterprise, [...]
I check my Gmail all day long. It's almost like gambling for me I guess, sometimes I just hit refresh and wonder why no one emailed me... I know, I need help. But this morning I was rewarded with a nice April Fool's gag from the Gmail team at Google. [...]
I have been using the Internet a long time now, and working on it for a living since 1995, so there are few things that I am surprised no one has done yet. I am sure this is not going to be an earth shaking list, and you might find [...]
Continuing on the thread of security… One interesting story I read this week was about people that use Peer to Peer sharing software like LimeWire and Kazaa to download music from work. Or maybe from their work computer at home. In either case, some of these folks have very little [...]
I am going to write a series of stories on security over the next week. This has been prompted by a number of articles I have read lately, coupled with the fact that I have had speaking clients mention the topic as being hot again. I think it is really [...]
Many of us do work for non-profits on the side and I heard two things lately that warrant me at least commenting on how technology can be used to help these organizations. The first it that Google announced yesterday a special package of services for non-profits. Click here to go [...]