Face-To-Face Communication: Just Say 'No' to Your Mobile Device
Mobile technology has made 'connectivity' easier but has made the simple ability to sustain live and meaningful exchange more difficult.
Mobile technology has made 'connectivity' easier but has made the simple ability to sustain live and meaningful exchange more difficult.
Permit me to share a wonderful piece by legendary writer-producer-director Bill Persky on modern technology. It appears in the today's edition of USA Today.
The fact that 80% of the recent jobs lost were held by men; people who have volunteered for Bloomberg's third term bid; getting Facebook invitations from people who campaigned for Eugene McCarthy.
For the first time in its existence, web domain names will be able to be written in languages besides English. ...
Despite the fact that "a" is under our weakest finger, and the most-used letter "e" is off the home row, people adapt, and those who are going to become fast typists will do so regardless of layout.
Microsoft has revealed its new line of smart phones it hopes will compete with RIM's BlackBerry and Apple's iPhone. The new line of HTC handse...
It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.
Twitter can now count me among its millions of users. What I'm really supposed to be doing on Twitter though, is still a bit of a mystery to me.
How do I unwind? My bio says it all, "Julia kayaks as often as possible on Georgian Bay".
Condé Nast announced that it will close four magazine publications. The publishing giant will shutter Gourmet, first published in 1941, along with...
He justifies his actions by claiming, "I have got work to do" but you sense that there is more to it -- that his use of technology comes from an addiction more than a real need.
How many of us have texted from a yoga class, while the teacher is talking?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Twitter is close to raising $100 million at a billion dollar valuation. ...
GPush, the app my team and I built this summer, was the first to offer push Gmail notifications to the iPhone. At its peak, GPush ranked 17th on Apple's most-downloaded list.
A new treatment for Swine Flu points to the inevitability that a host of products and services will one day be implanted in human wetware for purposes of convenience and efficiency.
The Wall Street Journal clarified reports that it will charge for mobile content, noting that content delivered on smartphone a...
[display_podcast] Rupert Murdoch told a Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference that iPhone & BlackBerry users will be charged for the Wal...
How is Citi going to pay the government back? One way is to find new, underhanded ways to get Visa cards into people's wallets.
Young people can barely remember a time when we weren't all telephonically tethered, and yet, cell phones are actually a relatively recent development.
Time.com has been building out its video library with a clear goal in mind: taking people to places they can't go without the video.
The Elements of Style is a masterpiece on the art of writing well, and it's a surprisingly quick read. Seriously, this rhetoric rulebook is so slim, it'll fit in the pocket of your hoodie.