Amazon: Education’s passive lurker gets aggressive If you want to see the future of Amazon in education, don’t look to Seattle. Look to Sao Paulo. For… Read More
First, we kill all the ‘futurists’ This is a tale of two keynotes. One, by a working scientist explaining the work being done in her field.… Read More
Generational blindness: Is sexism in tech forever? There are many things that seem stubbornly cyclical in their refusal to be resolved in the tech industry. Password management.… Read More
Challenge accepted: My attempt to take an entire business trip without touching paper It began as a dare: Take an entire business trip without touching a piece of paper. I nearly choked on… Read More
Learn to code? No: Learn a real language The “learn to code” movement may be about to run afoul of the Law of Unintended Consequences. Few (least of… Read More
The weakest link in data privacy is, well, you Happy Data Privacy Day! The first round of credit card numbers is on me! Yes, this Tuesday, Jan. 28 really… Read More
2″ x 3.5″ evolution: Business cards reflect our tech All hail the lowly business card. For it is the most concise chronicler of the advances in communications technology. Despite… Read More
Four tech terms to forget in ’14 It’s 2014, and time to ring in the new and throw out the old. Old tech terms, that is: those… Read More
Favorite tech things: 3 products this reviewer actually chose to buy Makers of tech products are often told to “eat their own dog food” – actually use what they tout in… Read More
The secret to getting Amazon’s best customer service There’s a classic tech industry joke. A jet is lost in dense fog and low on fuel. The pilot, desperate… Read More
Kindle Fire HDX: The business person’s frenemy When the Kindle Fire HDX was first released, I read reviews that raved how this Kindle finally added business-friendly features,… Read More
It’s time to kill the password — before it kills us It’s time to shoot the password. And multiple screens are the trigger. I had this epiphany when wrestling with one… Read More
When technology – and time – overtake research For the past three decades, I have been a psychological test subject. Not in a creepy NSA-and-tin-foil-hat kind of way,… Read More
The geek/nerd divide: This time, it’s personal A geek is not a nerd. And vice versa. Unless, of course, they are. When I was a kid, I… Read More
Tech happens: When tablets and schools don’t mix Memo to Microsoft: When it comes to Surface tablets in the classroom, be careful what you wish for. Because you… Read More
The Web: a generation old, a link unexpected On this twentieth anniversary of the first popular web browser, consider how its potential was viewed just one year after… Read More
Life’s a pitch: The other reasons startups do competitions The tech community has a rite of passage for its newborns hoping to reach adulthood. It is selective, it is… Read More
Google Chromecast: Welcome to the Post-Nerd Era Don’t try to be smarter than a smart device. That’s the main lesson I learned from an otherwise flawless first… Read More
Writing science fiction in a Write-a-thon of geeky solidarity Geeks and science fiction. You can almost track the rise in influence of the former by the inexorable pop-culture spread… Read More
We’re with Windows, and we’re here to help: The anatomy of a scam On its face, it was totally unbelievable. After all, when was the last time you recall any tech support pro-actively… Read More
Saving a ThinkPad from drink: How to recover from a tech travel disaster There are those moments in life that occur, seemingly, in slow motion. That first teenage kiss. A bobbled piece of… Read More
5 steps to prepare your geek child for college As caps and gowns are returned for deposits while freshmen are readying to be deposited this fall in the college… Read More
The future of news, as viewed from 1993: What we got right, and very wrong For journalism, the future isn’t what it used to be. Especially when viewed from two decades ago. I recently undertook… Read More
The Geek’s Guide to International Travel On my recent vacation to Europe, I traveled without folded maps, paper guidebooks and journals, or physical backup copies of my passport,… Read More
Slideshow: 7 steps to raise a geek child GeekWire columnist Frank Catalano wrote one of our favorite posts of all time with his seven tips for raising a… Read More
Bill Gates at SXSWedu: The future of education is data If there was a single nerdy subtext that Bill Gates brought to his closing keynote at the SXSWedu conference in… Read More
Paper trumps tech at national library conference I went looking for the digital future of libraries at the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting this week. Conveniently, the… Read More
3 ways digital media is turning us into 2nd graders We are all regressing. And I have proof from an authoritative source: the state of children’s books. The underlying reasons… Read More
Bill Gates to keynote SXSWedu conference While much of the tech world’s attention is focused on Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show (and Microsoft’s lack… Read More
Hey, ‘disrupt’ this! 5 tech terms to banish in 2013 The New Year is a time for us to reflect on the past, make adjustments for the future and —… Read More
