Category Archives: Technology

Mobile Insanity

The wireless handset (i.e. cellphone) market is getting absolutely insane just in time for the “economic stimulus checks” to start arriving. I am not using “insane” as some sort of bad-meaning-good euphemism; I really think people are losing some mental stability.
For those living under a rock, the next generation of the iPhone is going […]

Sprint is Still Losing Customers

At the end of last year I wrote Why Sprint is Losing Customers (and market share). The post detailed how I felt Sprint was providing the wrong kinds of incentive for their business to be successful. The post actually got talked about on a few finance sites as Sprint’s stock continued to fall throughout Q1 […]

Participating: Pandora’s Box

People used to be content with being talked at, lectured to, and entertained; now people seem discontent unless they are participating and engaged. The world has changed and there is no going back. Companies that used to make a living from talking at, lecturing, and entertaining need to adapt or they will eventually become irrelevant.
I […]

Google Spreadsheets Are Better Than Microsoft Excel

That title is a pretty bold statement.
I could write a long post about how document sharing, collaborative editing, integration with Google Gadgets, etc are all game changing features. The thing is, that post would take too long to write and I don’t have that time right now. Luckily I can back up my claim with […]

Electric Heat

For the past couple of years I have had a question running around in my head and it won’t go away. Maybe by posting it here someone can point me in the right direction to understand it.
If every rooftop in a city was covered with solar panels, would it reduce the overall temperature of the […]

Google as a Business Intelligence Platform for Small Businesses

Last week I wrote some thoughts about using the Mac OS X Dashboard for business intelligence. I still think that is a neat idea, but so much has changed in a very short period of time.
The main thing that changed is obviously Google AppEngine. Like with every major tech story these days there has been […]