November 6th has been well marked on the calendars of gadget geeks throughout the land. This of course is the public release of Motorola's Droid.

The mobile device runs on Verizon's network, and is the first to be powered by the newest release (v. 2.0) of Google's

It's always fun to look back on past decades' visions of the future -- especially when we're currently living out those actual periods. We didn't end up with the levitating cars, dreamed up in the 1950s; the imperialistic government of Orwell's 1984 (kind of); nor the spacecapades of Arthur C....

As an analyst who covers local media and the small-business marketplace, I'm always trying to engage real-life businesses on how they're running their shops -- kind of my own little focus group.

This can get especially annoying for my friends who run local businesses. Lately these conversations have shifted to...