Data Whore: Why I Splurged on a 64GB iPhone 4S

Frustrated to near tears the other night I rang Verizon Wireless and asked if I could upgrade three weeks early. The nice southern belle on the phone got manager approval to do so and recommended, after I asked about size, the 16GB iPhone. I was thinking even if it wasn’t big enough, I’d have a lot [...]

UK Entrepreneur Creates Texting Smoke Alarm

The UK’s Matthew Newman has created a product for those paranoid folks like myself that check their oven and door multiple times a day to make sure the former is off and the latter is locked. Newman’s company, ELS, developed a product called Firetext, which with the help of a Lithium battery and a GSM [...]

Tiny Watch Productions For President

There is a god and he started tinywatchproductions. If you haven’t seen any of these videos, you are missing out on a real laugh. My cousin first sent me the iPhone video. Then I added them to my YouTube favorites. Now I’m a total junkie. From explaining “the Quantitative Easing” while slamming “the Goldman Sachs,” to making fun of Steve [...]

Apple: A Giant Underdog?

It seems no matter how big Apple grows, it always maintains underdog status. The U.S. government’s supposed antitrust investigations (WSJ) are insanely arbitrary and their regulation of food, media and technology equally random. In recent months, anyone that reads a major metropolitan newspaper would have learned that GMO alfalfa is OK, but Apple taking a hefty [...]

Toyota Reveals Multimedia Add-On

Toyota Motor Sales revealed big mobile technology news at the 2011  Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas detailing a new optional Internet package dubbed the Toyota Entune multimedia system.  Toyota Entune uses the customer’s mobile phone to employ in-vehicle programming that offers integrated and upgradeable entertainment, navigation, and information services.  Integration via the user’s [...]

The Baby Boomers’ Internet Radio

It may come as a surprise, but there are some people that don’t bow to the Apple Gods. Don’t tell Steve. Though I confess to joining the Apple computing cult, I don’t love Apple enough to switch to AT&T for wireless phone service and contrary to what Americans think, I still think the iTouch and [...]

BlackBerry Tablet Coming In March?

Will Flash and a secure Enterprise-friendly operating system be enough to lure luxury market consumers and business executives to purchase the Playbook from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion? To the consumer, Flash is a big deal and the promise of a touch screen tablet with the capability to run Flash and Java might be enough to spur sales. But, [...]