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On a recent car ride with the family, when everyone in the car but the driver, me, was asleep, I spent a little time letting my mind free associate on recent technology announcements. One that was really floating through my head was how at the most recent Google I/O,

I remember reading James' article when he left Google, but it has been a year since he left and when his blog post started marking the rounds again last month, it was picked up elsewhere in the blogosphere, it started me thinking again. Lets look at one of James&

Google Glass has so far been very divisive, especially for a product that is barely a developer preview, much less a full-fledged consumer product. Some people are suspecting that it will be a massive failure and even the company's chairman admits that it can be 'weird'

This is a speech I recently presented at my local Toastmaster's club. It is part of a larger discussion I've done a few times about Responsive Web Design. I wanted to do something a little different with this speech so I recorded it to let everyone

[vc_row el_position="first"] [vc_column] [vc_column_text el_position="first last"] One thing that I really wish I could ask the Apple executive team is why and when they decide to make announcements. Lots of people have discussed over the years how, when

The tech news has spent a lot of time over the last few months, explaining in detail why it feels that the relatively newly announced Firefox OS doesn't matter. Many of the arguments center on the fact that we already have a well-established, open-source (mostly) mobile operating system

Every year, I head up to Sandusky, OH with some friends to ride roller coasters at Cedar Point. The 2012 instance of the trip happened to be the 11th trip for this group of us and I had gone with them on all but 2 of those trips. Its a

Sometimes an app just isn't living up to its potential. Its no one's fault; the idea was fantastic, the analysis work was stellar, the coding exact, the testing meticulous and the marketing flawlessly executed. Yet, your users hate your app. Their scathing reviews in the app

I'm not as addicted as some, but in the 4.5 years I've had an iPhone, I've installed 498 apps. Not bad, but it really makes me want to go out and quickly find 2 more to make an even 500. Now, most of

Amazon.com has always been an interesting company to watch. Back when I was in college, I had high hopes for them, mostly because the school bookstore, and the publishing companies that backed them, seemed to me to be a monopoly that had far to much power of my pocketbook.

This week, in a move that surprised no one, Microsoft released their first ever PC, the Microsoft Surface. There are lots of websites out there who provided in-depth coverage about the announcement, so instead of rehashing what they had to say, I'll just link to them instead. What

I'm not a big shopper. What little shopping I do is usually performed from the comfort of my recliner with my laptop's browser pointed to a few select online retailers. The first Christmas I purchased all my gifts online was 1999. I even purchased my first

Identity theft has taken some surprising turns in the past few years and none do I find more disturbingly creative than using someone's personal data to file a false tax return. This is by no means a good thing to have happen, but how bad is it really?

The last few years have been a roller-coaster for every company in the mobile phone industry. RIM's once assured dominance in smart phones has imploded. Nokia's dominance with feature phones shrank to nothing. Apple, who introduced a phone years after people started talking about it, was

Apple is a heavyweight; that cannot be denied. What surprised me was exactly how big of a financial punch they can land on their competitors with just a rumor. Lets think about that for a second... 6% of a competitor/supplier's value is wiped out with a completely

Disclosure: I am a former Oracle employee (for all of 6 months). I enjoyed my time there and have fond memories of my time there.  Innovation is hard. Really hard. Don't believe me? Just head over to amazon.com and look at their search results for 'innovation.

[caption id="attachment_25" align="alignnone" width="614"] Ted in front of a haul of iPads[/caption] No one will deny that High Gravity Consulting is anything but a house full of Geeks. How many people do you know that would walk into an