The rumor mill continues to grind as to whether and when an iPhone 5 will be coming to market, and what improvements it will have. Recent reports state that AT&T upper management has inadvertently given the heads-up to retail managers to prepare for new materials and rollouts in the fall. Thus followers of such news […]
#Communications: Can We Trust AT&T – T-Mobile Merger Promises?
Or is the merger only promising to be a trust? AT&T has been working through the logistics, regulatory maze, and public-relations (snow?)job for a year or so in its efforts to purchase T-Mobile for $39 million dollars. The merger would make AT&T and Verizon the only major carriers of mobile/4G/LTE networking services in the country. […]
#Tech: Will The iPhone 5 Reinvent Mobile? In 2011? 2012?
Few companies or individuals spur a greater rumor mill than Apple or Steve Jobs. We may speculate over Sarah Palin‘s candidacy for president or Facebook’s next set of tweaks, but Apple has inspired more discussion about non-existent products and unsubstantiated reports than most anything else. And now much of that attention is focussed on the […]
#Tech: Under The Hood of The New Mac Mini & Mac Mini Server
I’m excited to talk about the newly updated Mac Mini Server this week, having often discussed the benefits of the previous model on this blog. Apple last week released OS X Lion (OS 10.7) to the public. Along with the major software update and the Mini Servier, they updated the MacBook Air and the Mac […]
#Tech: Mac Mini Server, Part 4 – Storage Options
Scott Caldarelli returns to continue his discussion of the advantages of the inexpensive Mac Mini Server for your office. I am pleased to be back to discuss the great opportunities that a Mac Mini Server can offer a charity or nonprofit wanting a stable, secure, and affordable computing solution for everyone in the office and […]
#Tech: The Cloud Can Bring Liberty. The Cloud Can Bring Danger.
O Liberty…! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? Thomas Bailey Aldrich The history of technology is the history of liberty and loss. We gained a stylus and wax and left the need to memorize everything. We gained a smartphone, and forgot how to write legibly. With great freedom comes great responsibility, and the […]
#HowTo: Organizing Your Twitter Account With Lists Makes Mobile Use Easier Still
Twitter has become the go-to social-media portal for sharing tidbits of breaking news, personal thoughts, and serendipitous discoveries. Most people access their Twitter feeds – postings from those they follow – via portable devices, especially smartphones. Concurrently, smartphones are the devices that conveniently allow people to send tweets from conferences, crises, field work, and sporting […]
#Tech: Apple May Plan to Remotely Shut-Down iPhone Cameras at Live Events
It is arguably one of the most famous commercials for technology ever made. It marked a revolution in personal computing and it spurred the interests of people like this writer to watch the Super Bowl if for no other reason than the commercials. Apple’s ‘1984’: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8[/youtube]