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Living in the Cloud and Google OS

by Justin Levy on November 28, 2009

If you’ve been keeping up on your reading of tech blogs, then you can’t get away from all of the increased chatter over Google OS.  Google continues to try revolutionizing the way we interact with the web.  Google OS is going to change the way we work on a computer.  Initially, the target will be [...]

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A Slice of the Federal Government IT Pie

by Justin Levy on August 3, 2009

Being a technology geek as well as someone interested in our Government, I was intrigued when I came across the Federal IT Dashboard website recently.
The official description of the Federal IT dashboard is:
The IT Dashboard provides the public with an online window into the details of Federal information technology investments and provides users with the [...]

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Shortly after the conclusion of SXSW, Dave Delaney (@davedelaney) of Griffin was nice enough to send me the AirCurve after I geeked out over it when I first saw it.  The AirCurve is an acoustic amplifier for the iPhone.  Using the iPhone’s built-in speaker along with the “wavecurve”, the AirCurve amplifies the sound to approximately [...]

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The Reduction of Personal Interaction

by Justin Levy on January 23, 2009

Yesterday I was running a few errands when it struck me.  With the advancements of technology moving into the retail and consumer spaces, it is possible to go an entire day of being out without ever having a personal interaction.  Take this sample morning of running errands as an example:

You leave your house and stop [...]

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The last time I flew Southwest out of Bradley International Airport was in September when I was headed out to theBlogworld Expo.  When I arrived at my departure gate earlier today heading to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), I was pleasantly surprised to see that Southwest had made some upgrades.  Southwest removed some of the [...]

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Grocery Store Goes Hi-Tech with Personal Scanners

by Justin Levy on December 30, 2008

A few weeks ago I was at my local Stop & Shop grocery store and noticed some new stuff around.  They had upgraded the self-checkouts and there was also a docking station that had several personal scanners.  In a rush I couldn’t play with the shiny new toys.  But, over this past weekend I went [...]

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