It is my observation that one of the hardest things to do as a businessperson is to look into the future and be able accurately see a picture of how things are going to be. As I sit here today, I had no idea I would be paying over $4 [...]
I have long searched for a word to describe the impact of technology on the business world. I now use the concept of "undertow" to get a concept across. The tools that technology has brought, and is still bringing at a high rate, get picked up and applied in ways [...]
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 [...]
Apple may not be known as an enterprise commodity, in fact, unless you are in marketing or creative you most likely don't have a Mac on your desktop, but on one front adoption might be about to grow. A few days ago Apple announced that the iPhone is ready to [...]
Tiny Pictures, a San Francisco based company, is moving the social network to your cell phone. This is important to the corporate world for a few reason, some of which are not obvious. With the proliferation of smart phones accessing the Internet, and with almost every cell phone having an [...]
For many of us that have grown up using MS Office, the thought of using an online office tool from a third party vendor is a bit scary. I have been using Word, Excel and PowerPoint for so many years that the only way I can remember not using them [...]
Widgets are a hot topic, we have covered them here on Technology Story (search: widget), and it seems like the momentum is only growing. I am excited about seeing the new J.J. Abrams movie Cloverfield, so I hit the site this morning and noticed right away that they are using [...]
I feel somewhat obligated to continue my post on Apple and the role they will play in the world - especially since they made their annual set of announcements at MacWorld yesterday. It was not the same blockbuster type of list as in the past, but they did make two [...]
I have to start this off by admitting that I have been working with PC's since 1981. Sadly, that is longer than some of the developers that work for me have been alive. Having hung around the technology world for 27 years or so, I have been blessed to watch [...]