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Distraction Is Hurting Your Career
Ads Are Hurting Your Career
Yes, Virginia, advertising is hurting your career. Well, not just ads, but also crap content. You know, the Twinkies of text. Empty mental calories. It’s all serving to dull your edge and tarnish your chances of getting a promotion and that new BMW.
I know. It’s almost un-American to publicly proclaim one’s hatred for advertising. Maybe I’m weird. Or difficult to please. But I simply hate ads. In…
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iPod Touch, 6th Generation: User Perspective
iPod Touch, 6th Generation: User Perspective
Both of my kids are addicted to social media and, by proxy, the devices made of aluminum and glass that provide access to them.
For the past several months, my youngest daughter has complained of a very sluggish third generation iPod touch. It was certainly getting long in the tooth; she couldn’t even install the latest version of iOS. The meager 8 GB of storage meant she had to continually…
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Hope for Hydrogen: Fueling Station Buildout
Welcome to the second installment in the Hope for Hydrogen series. In the previous article, the premise of this series was explained: Pretend there are no battery electric vehicles in the world. Imagine that hydrogen fuel cell cars are the inevitable replacement for the 155-year-old internal combustion engine and the two billion gas-guzzling cars currently roaming the roads of planet Earth.
We…
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HBO Now: Completing Netflix
Netflix has garnished most of the media attention and praise in its pioneering—and very successful, to date—effort to migrate consumer entertainment from coaxial cables to fiber optic internet connections. While the company is certainly worthy of celebration and, with more than 60 million global subscribers, is making investors happy, HBO is quietly changing the way consumers purchase and pay for…
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The Future of Electric Car Sales
The Future of Electric Car Sales
In early February, Neil Winton, a British automotive journalist who contributes to the Detroit News and Forbes, wrote an article headlined “Electric Car Sales Jump in Europe, but Likely to Stall Soon.”
No Consumer Demand?
The Forbes article was based mostly on data derived from Europe’s Automotive Industry Data(AID) newsletter and quotes from Peter Schmidt, its editor. Said Schmidt, as quoted by…
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Hope for Hydrogen: Imagine Fuel Cell Cars
Hope for Hydrogen: Imagine Only Fuel Cell Cars
Welcome to the first installment in Hope for Hydrogen. In this series of articles and podcasts, veteran automotive journalist Nicolas Zart and I ask you to imagine a world void of battery electric vehicles (BEVs). In this contrived intellectual exercise, pretend that the inevitable replacement for conventional gas-powered automobiles will be the venerable hydrogen fuel cell car.
I’ve written…
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Tesla Motors Acquires RadioShack Brand
Tesla Motors Acquires RadioShack Brand
In a shock to both Wall St. and fans of its popular electric cars, Tesla Motors has acquired the RadioShack brand. Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the move a “nod to nostalgia” and said he liked the fact that the acquisition cost him only $20 million.
“I think a lot of people cried when RadioShack went under,” said the charismatic CEO who inspired the Marvel Comics character Tony Stark. “As a kid, I…
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New Twitter Account: @curtarobbins
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New Twitter Account
To my Twitter followers: My account got screwed up; no access.
I am now Tweeting from @curtarobbins.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks,
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Apple vs. Lenovo: Pay Now or Pay Later
The news of the Lenovo malware scare is simply another example of why I won’t use anything other than Apple products for my computers. Said Thomas Fox-Brewster from Forbes: “Lenovo might have made one of the biggest mistakes in its history.”
“By pre-installing software called ‘Superfish ’ to get ads on screens, it’s peeved the entire privacy community,” continued Fox-Brewster. “Lenovo won’t want…
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Consumer Tech is the New Religion
I’m certainly not the first to declare it, but consumer technology is the new religion of the 21st century. With all due respect to your spiritual faith (or lack thereof), middle class consumers are quickly becoming technology zealots. Daily, we worship at the altar of social media and mobile devices.
Our prayers for the blessings of bigger displays, expanded storage, and thinner designs are…
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Apple Watch: Out of Sync?
John C. Abell, Senior Editor at LinkedIn, recently published a blog post in which he suggested that society has nothing to fear from intelligent robots, a veiled reference to recent statements from Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking about the future potential of artificial intelligence. Rather than robots or AI, Abell wrote: “Batteries will be the death of us.”
While this brings a gentle chuckle,…
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Zealth Audio: Employing Homeless Veterans
If you’re like me, little things sometimes frustrate you. Maybe the kids left the cap of the soda again and it went flat. Or your spouse put a small scratch in the bumper of your car. Possibly the cat left you a present in a remote corner of a spare bedroom….
Then you learn about someone like Kevin Nelson and it puts everything in perspective. Nelson (about whom I’ve written previously), is the…
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Tidal: Lossless Music Streaming
Tidal: CD-Quality Music Streaming
I recently learned about a relatively new streaming music service out of Sweden called Tidal, which became available in the United Kingdom and the United States last October.
Why do I care about a new streaming music service when there’s so many already on the market? Spotify, Google Play Music, Rdio, Rhapsody, and Beats Music (the “Big Five”) all offer very compelling services priced at only $10…
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Elon Musk: Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are "Extremely Silly"
On January 13, when addressing reporters during a Q&A session at the Automotive News World Congress (part of the North American International Auto Show), Elon Musk was asked by Gabe Nelson, from Automotive News, about his previous statements regarding hydrogen fuel cell technology for use in personal vehicles—and whether he regretted previous statements in which he claimed that the tech is…
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Chevy Bolt Concept EV: Meh?
On January 12, General Motors CEO Mary Barra introduced the Chevy Bolt concept car at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Media outlets far and wide hailed the poorly named Bolt electric vehicle (EV) as a strong future competitor to Tesla’s forthcoming Model 3. Unlike Chevy’s existing token electric car, the hybrid Volt (which features a small three-cylinder internal combustion…
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Why the Toyota Mirai Will Flop
Since Toyota’s recent announcement of the September release of its hydrogen-powered Mirai sedan, there’s been a lot of press and social media chatter regarding this ground-breaking new vehicle. Hydrogen proponents and environmentalists far and wide are hailing this innovative car for its clean exhaust and edgy design. Toyota even calls it a “turning point.”
The Religious Debate
However, there’s a…
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