By Andy Marken
The hacking "industry" has come a long way since 1972 when Woz and Jobs would make blue boxes similar to Draper's "Cap'n Crunch" boxes and sell them to folks who wanted to make free phone calls anywhere in the world.
By Andy Marken
The hacking "industry" has come a long way since 1972 when Woz and Jobs would make blue boxes similar to Draper's "Cap'n Crunch" boxes and sell them to folks who wanted to make free phone calls anywhere in the world.
By Andy Marken
Netflix' Reed Hastings has warped reality ... TV isn't dead.
It's in the middle of a gut-wrenching change to keep pace with consumer expectations and the dizzying array of options that are emerging that they are up against.
There are shiploads of big, bad, sharp, smart 4K UHD TV sets.
And there's the cheap route to not-so-smart TV ... the dongles.
By Andy Marken
Businesses are running so fast today trying to catch the next great thing, they've lost sight of the reason they're in business ... the customer.
By Andy Marken
The NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) and United Airlines computer glitches couldn't have happened at a worse and better time.
The incidents weren't caused by hackers but did highlight that software is cobbled together code with pieces from here, there, you name it. Bad code gets passed along without causing a problem ... until it does.
By Andy Marken
Drive down 101 in Silicon Valley, or any industrial park on the planet, and you can almost see the skeletons of once thriving businesses that all had one thing in common ... they were innovative.
Most were so enthralled with their innovation they couldn't get out of their own way.
By Andy Marken
You may not realize it, but there's a correlation between the Me Gen's fascination with zombies, the rapid growth of smartphones/tablets, the rejection of having a computer at every desk and finally, the future of business/employment.
You can put some of the blame on the Gen Me (Boomer) folks, but they just started the ball rolling.
By Andy Marken
The Internet has to be one of the best 10 wonders of the world.
Think about it ... you can reach out to and communicate with anyone, any time, from anywhere.
You can watch stuff any time and increasingly, on any device.
Now that it's faster and more reliable (your performance may vary), it's awesome!
The second best thing is email.
By Andy Marken
If you listen to some guys, you'd swear women shouldn't touch technology.
They don't realize that if it weren't for the female contributions, we'd still be using abacas, tin cans and a string and probably pickup sticks.
Ada Lovelace wrote the software for Babbage's machine and today, half of the users of tech products and websites are women.
Most people who miss Storage Visions (SV) which is held just before CES (Consumer Electronics Show) say storage isn't as sexy as a wearable or connected car ... pity.
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