Lawmakers and tech titans united?  What possibly could align such a crew?  War?  No.  The environment?  Sadly, no.  Citizen and consumer well-being?  Not exactly. Fear. Well, fear and greed.  Last month representative Zoe Lofgren presented a new bill that requires law enforcement to obtain a search warrant before accessing cloud data, such as email [...]

It’s already proven that shoppers prefer stores with a mobile app, and that location-based mobile ads are the new hot-ticket for bringing in business.  LBA (Location-Based Advertising) has arrived. Don’t believe me? A recent study by Berg Insight forecasts that location-based ads on mobile phones will drive 28% of all mobile marketing dollars by 2016.  [...]

Do you live in a city of givers?  Or takers? This is the proud papa post with a location twist.  My oldest son Robby was featured in an article today on Kids and Philanthropy.  Here’s the link to a provoking piece by Lisa Lori on babycenter’s mom section: http://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/kids-and-philanthropy-giving-begins-at-home/ Which got papa thinking, I’ve always [...]

I wasn’t much of a dater back in the day. I tried to get hooked up, ask girls out, but my nerd factor was off the charts. Now that nerd is the new cool, well, it’s a little too late for me.  But so many of you are still young and single, and you are [...]

The 800 folks at Harris Interactive just completed a mobile survey with alarming, not but surprising, results. It concerns mobile ads, the ones the size of that tiny screw that keeps your eyeglasses together. Every time I click on an ad from my mobile device, it is my accident. Then I spend fifteen seconds beep-beep-beeping…backing [...]

It is the biggest research project in history on the subject. So it has to be right. It isn’t. Pressing that Blackberry to your ear an hour a day will not give you brain cancer.