The iPad has inspired many older Americans to expand not only their computing skills, but also their short-term memories and their social(-media) circles. Nevertheless, the iPad was not created with our oldest citizens in mind. The screen is not especially large, for example. The computer company Telikin in Chalfont, PA is developing a desktop machine […]
Far More Developers Than Users of Location-Based Social Media
We shared with you last week a story published by The Wall Street Journal about how mobile applications draw our personal data from our devices in ways few of us understand. We would expect our social-media apps to do such (Facebook, our myriad of Twitter-based software, FourSquare, etc.), but The WSJ found that information-based apps […]
Apple Sued Over Mobile Apps’ Lack Of Privacy-Tip Of The Iceberg?
The turn of the year has not been especially kind to Apple Inc. and its insanely popular (though not ubiquitous) iPhones and iPads. A widely-reported (and satirized) bug in the clock/alarm application meant many millions were not awoken by their alarms in the first few days of 2011, for example. Yet the bigger problems started […]
#MARKETING: The Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday Double Punch
Welcome back from Thanksgiving. And, if you are like some 212 million of your closer friends, welcome back from shopping. Sales figures for ‘Black Friday‘ (the day many stores move from the debt of red ink to the black of profitability in their books) looked stronger than they have in a while, according to The […]
Giving By Billionaires Getting Some Reflective/Reflexive Pushback
The pledge of William Buffett, Bill Gates, and a growing number of multi-million and billionaires has received a great deal of press in the last couple of weeks, as Mr. Buffett has made efforts to enlist the super-wealthy from around the world. According to a report in The Washington Post by Donna Gordon Blankinship (5 […]
‘Net Neutrality’ Is Complicated – And Is Heading To Extinction (Part I)
The arrangement/ agreement drawn up between Google and Verizon was posted today amidst much fanfare and/or derision. The full proposal can be read here. It begins with a statement of principles concerning consumer protection meant to ensure freedom for anyone using the internet to share unprohibited and unharmful materials. Consumer Protections: A broadband Internet access […]
Web Browsers Open Up The Web To Us (And Open Us To The Web)
Ever since the invention of Lynx in the early 1990s to give at least a few folks access to the internet, we have been growing ever more comfortable with accessing information, buying products, and sharing ourselves with our Facebook Friends. We are aware to some degree that the websites we visit place ‘cookies’ on our […]
BP Appoints New Public Face Yet Continues To Pump Out The Sludge
No, we are not returning to @BPGlobalPR and its efforts to keep the BP/Deepwater Horizon/Haliburton disaster at the forefront of our minds and our punchlines. BP is doing a fair job on its own. Most recently, The Wall Street Journal got hold of the BP’s own internal newsletter “Planet BP” and its efforts to spin […]
