It has been a long time since I picked up my first PDA. Slightly less time has expired since I transitioned from PDAs to smartphones as my primary PIM platforms. Now it is the fall of 2010 and I have made another ponderous shift, into the realm of tablet… more »

I have been doing this mobile technology thing for about ten years now. I have a spent a large portion of that intervening time in the belief that the mobile experience should be as close to the desktop experience as feasible. My perspective was that the… more »

I think a lot. That is not something I am bragging about. It's more so a problem, because I can rarely remember more than 5 minutes later what the so-called brilliant idea was that I had in my cranium. For times like these, it is a good thing that there… more »

Things are rough. Changes at work. Looking at a 2nd Masters. Closing. Moving. Packing. Trading out cars. It is almost too much. And all of this iPad hype has not helped. I am in an almost constant daily soul-search for determining an altruistic means of… more »

I'd rather be at CES. Really. If there were one thing that I could be doing, I would rather be in Las Vegas, getting no sleep, living on corn dogs, and covering the latest in tech product development. But alas, such is not my lot. So, the question is, wh… more »

There need to be some changes in the realm of mobile gaming. And quick. It is a simple question. eBooks are debuting these days with 3G connectivity embedded in devices that retail for $299. Less in some cases. Worldwide cellular access (I would settle f… more »

With all of the high tech (and some times high-priced) gear that is in the 'WERKz, a lot of people assume that most of my efforts are supported primarily by the more expensive gear. The truth is, it is a lot of the little items that ensure that these hig… more »

Last night I posted a link to a PC Magazine article by Lance Ulanoff which I suggested I did not agree with, but thought was good food for thought. And then I read the article a second time and picked apart some more granular details. And I was wrong. Th… more »

It is all over the blogosphere and the web in general. Smartphone sales are increasing. That must mean everyone wants one. I am not so sure that is the case because I am not so sure that you can count all of the sales of the iPhone and Palm Pre. If I had… more »

When all of the discussion of moving to a Cloud-centric model for computing picked up steam a year or so ago, I was appalled. The pundits would have you believe that cloud computing would especially appeal to those of my stripe; the high-frequency travel… more »