It’s topic of much discussion here at Whatever – what is the future looking like for traditional desktop computers (PC’s) ? I can share with you that based on retail reports from this past Christmas and Apple’s Q4 Earning report, it’s bleak….Wired .com reported that US tablet ownership doubled this past Christmas. In mid December, [...]
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The post PC era. Good bye laptops…hello smartphones.
iPad Learning and the NFL
On the day after the Superbowl, I’d thought I’d share some football insight I recently stumbled upon. No, I’m not speaking to the commercials that us advertising guys get all ramped up about. It’s about technology, athletes and learning. Yes, even the National Football League has embraced the power of the iPad with a new [...]
Mobile First – Adaptive, responsive design
There’s been quite a debate hitting the web development community surrounding the mobile web, and the future of mobile applications (app’s) versus mobile websites. To briefly summarize, do companies create separate mobile versions of their website? Or do they create mobile apps to deliver specialized content to the mobile audience? Much of this dialogue has [...]
Technology meets responsibility
Is it just me, or are other people seeing more and more people texting while driving? It’s beginning to get stupid on our roads and highways – people thumbing their smartphones while operating a vehicle? Some show restraint – they wait ’till they’re at a stop sign or traffic light…and then hold up everyone behind [...]
Data in the Clouds
Chances are you’ve probably heard the term “cloud computing” – it’s all the rage these days. While it’s difficult to come up with any short, concise definition of the term, the generally agreed upon notion is that by utilizing a ‘Cloud Solution,’ you are, in fact, placing your data or key applications online versus having [...]
High mobile expectations
Where did September go? A blur, and here we are in October. One memory stands out for me from September. It occured one evening while I was away on a fly-in fishing trip with friends on a remote lake in Ontario… no hydro… no roads… float plane as the only way in and out. As we [...]
iPad 3.0
Everyone should make a point of spending some time in the great outdoors – the experience is not only healthly, but it can provide you with some amazing clarity of thought. I want to share a relevalation some friends and I had during a conversation around a campfire this past Saturday evening. I need to set the stage: [...]
Android has a new fan
My son recently switched phones – gone is his Blackberry, and Hello Android. I admit that I was shocked – ‘BBM’ing’ had become so entrenched in his social group, that it took a bold move for him to leave it behind. Soon his girlfriend had also switched away from her Blackberry to a Samsung Android [...]
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