Last Monday was my birthday, and I took a personal day to go downtown and enjoy my favorite NYC cheesesteak. While relishing my sandwich, I couldn’t help but overhear a group of guys talking at the next table. “I mean, who sends a fax anymore?” one of the young men asked his group. As they […]
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I’m a pretty big fan of the TripIt service on the web and for mobile devices. Forwarding travel confirmations to TripIt and having it automagically build my travel itinerary is just flippin’ genius. So I thought I should clue you in on the latest update to the iOS app. TripIt has updated its travel dashboard […]
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I recently got a demo pair of SOL Republic Tracks headphones and I couldn’t have been more excited. Honestly, I felt like a kid on Christmas morning when I unboxed them. Everyone with a mobile lifestyle knows that headphones are a vital part of your day. As a New Yorker, I wear headphones a lot; […]
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In business, development time can mean serious money. There’s a delicate dance of cost vs. benefit – processes that could potentially be automated aren’t because the time it would take to write the code isn’t worth the time that would be saved. Luckily, the industry is changing, and we’ll soon see a day where your […]
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Adobe is going through some serious changes, one of which involves the cutting of close to 750 jobs as part of a broad restructuring; probably not what we need in this economy, but times are tough all over. The second rumor is also surprising, and bad news for many: according to ZDNet, Adobe will no […]
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I recently wrote about Facebook’s new features and how they work for small businesses, but today I’m highlighting a different kind of social network : Tagged. Tagged isn’t a Facebook competitor per se; as a matter of fact you can (and I do) use Facebook Login to sign into the site. Tagged is different – […]
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For the last week I’ve been using a Livescibe Echo smartpen, and I flat-out love it. When Livescribe gave me their 8gb version to demo, I have to admit I was dubious at first; I spend a lot of time banging away on a keyboard, and I was pretty sure that the pen and the […]
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It’s just before midnight here on the east coast, but it looks like Apple got iTunes 10.5 out the door ahead of schedule. If you want to be the first kid on the block running the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system (available for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad), then you need to head […]
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One of the many announcements during this week’s Apple event was the fact that the popular iPod Touch will now come in white, will get the iOS 5 platform, and the price has been reduced to $199 for the entry-level 8 GB version. Now that sounds all well and dandy for the parent looking to […]
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Shakespeare wrote “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”. Nothing could be further from the truth in business. Naming and slogans are some of the most important aspects of branding. People do not ask for a facial tissue, they ask for a Kleenex, rather […]
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