Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Power of Twitter

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase I may be a bit late to the party but I was finally able to see the power of Twitter this afternoon. I kept on getting an "Authentication failed" message when trying to log in to AIM. A few years ago I would not know what to do except ...

Some Thoughts on Innovation

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I stumbled unto an article written in 1968 that tries to predict what the world of 2008 will be like. Usually, these types of predictions are completely off and tend to predict a future far more advanced than what it actually becomes. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="202" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] As expected, the ...

Privacy in the Digital Age

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

With so many people joining social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, it's becoming harder and harder to protect your personal information. If one of your friends happens to add a host of different facebook apps, those apps will have access to his friends' (your) information. There is nothing you ...

On Microsoft Walking Away from Yahoo

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

A little unexpected but I think this was the right decision for Microsoft for a couple of reasons: 1. Jerry Yang was doing everything in his power to prevent MS from acquiring Yahoo - what type of message does that send and how must the employees of Yahoo feel if their ...

On Apple Buying PA Semiconductor

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Response to: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080425_004775.html The author is giving 2 reasons for the acquisition:1. The short term reason is to force Intel to give Apple price cuts for fear that Apple will make their own chips. - I do not think that Intel needs to worry about Apple manufacturing their own PC chips as ...