Obama’s New IT Project Initiative – A Step In The Right Direction


 The Wall Street Journal on Saturday had a front page article on the White House initiative to create a new agency to manage large IT projects and increase federal hiring of key IT specialists from...
    






How Consumer Technology Is Inspiring – And Limiting – Brand Advertising


The Internet may have torn up most of traditional media, but one area it has left relatively untouched so far is brand advertising, the image ads that television and magazines still dominate. Most of...
    






Here’s Looking at You/Me/We in 2014


What strikes you most about movies and TV shows from just a few years back? For me: the phones. Until about five years ago, most people had flip phones (mine was a T-Mobile special, very age-...
    






Drivers For Change – How The World Might Evolve In 2014


New Year is a time to look forward and ponder how the world will change in the months and years to come. It’s not necessarily something you would expect from an automotive company, though – yet that...
    






Snapchat vows to fix security issues


After hackers published a database containing 4.6 million phone numbers and user names on New Year's Eve, Snapchat now vows to address the issues via an updated version of the Snapchat application....
    






Wells Fargo Downgraded Apple From Outperform To Market Perform Based On Gross Margin Concerns


Wells Fargo’s Apple analyst Maynard Um downgraded Apple from Outperform to Market Perform on Monday while maintaining his $536 to $581 target price range. Apple’s stock was down $8 or about 1.4% to $...
    






7 Reasons That Russia Is Not The Soviet Union


National Review published a rather overheated piece the other day that contained an entertaining line: “Russia has become the Soviet Union with a better suit”. The idea that Russia is fundamentally...
    






How To Double Your Content Marketing ROI In 2014


December brings many traditions: enjoying the holidays, wrapping up projects from the year that’s ending, and gearing up for the year ahead. One piece of the process is evaluating how you did in...