Clean Your Cell Phone - Avoid Swine Flu
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 26 Comments »A couple of years ago we found out that germ-a-phobes had something new to worry about - their cellphones were crawling with potentially lethal bacteria. The Centers for Disease Control agrees that "... Cell phones may have a notable ...
Chicks Dig a Smart Bird - Mockingbird That Is…
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 1 Comment »A team of scientists in the US have discovered a correlation between weather volatility and the complexity in the various songs of mockingbirds. Carlos Botero at Cornell led a team to investigate the relationship between climate and birdsong. "As environments become ...
New Google Web Elements
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Google is hosting it's annual I/O Developer's Conference in San Francisco. It started yesterday and ends today. The big news, so far, is that Google has launched a new set of tools called Google Web Elements. These are insanely easy Google ...
Polaroid Staging A Coming Back!
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 42 Comments »It was about a year ago that I first reported the end of a photographic era. Polaroid closed its last factory and went out of business. Yes, the pictures were small, grainy and awful. Yes, the chemical-ly peel back was ...
New Genes Slow Aging
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 57 Comments »400 years ago, Juan Ponce de Leon scoured Florida in a vain search for the legendary fountain of youth. He didn't find it. But perhaps now scientists have discovered something similar, in a set of genes that can slow aging. Linda Partridge, ...
Sell By Cell
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 80 Comments »Are you letting your customers make purchases with their cell phone, yet? If not, it's time to get with the program. Let me put it this way, if you are in retail then not doing business via mobile device is ...
Memorial Day Mashup
Monday, May 25th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »If you're looking for a techie business tip today, then please come back tomorrow. It's Memorial Day and I think it's important to actually honor the day and,more importantly, honor those that give meaning to the day - those that ...
A Little iPop In Your iPhone
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Here's my favorite story of the week. Apple had to put out a press release warning iPhone and iPod users that those little earbuds could come with a pop. Apparantly, they are prone to building up static electricity and the result ...
