It’s the time of year when severe weather can hit anywhere in the country.  Wireless communication can be a lifesaver in impending disasters.  Those of us on the coastal states in the U.S. gear up for hurricane season beginning June 1, but tornados can occur almost any time or anywhere…the most prevalent time being mid … Read More about Wireless and Weather

We started 2012 with the International CES show in Las Vegas this January.  With a new year we saw exciting new products such as new 4G phones, phablets (tab-phones), wireless headphones for use in home theaters and for high quality audio up to 100 ft. away, wireless speakers connecting via Bluetooth, and a laptop with … Read More about New Year, New Wireless Devices — But Remember When…

Would you rather lose your cell phone or your wallet?  Recently, CNN took an informal poll on the street and most people they interviewed said they would rather lose their wallet.  One young woman said, “I can use my cell phone to cancel my credit cards.  I would be lost without my cell phone.” There … Read More about Cell Phone or Wallet?

If you don’t use an iPod, you might not understand all the fuss.  If you do use an iPod, you probably can’t imagine what it would be like to NOT have all that music in your pocket.  But the real, amazing story of the iPod and why its birth was so important, was how it … Read More about Happy 10th Birthday iPod!

In spite of our amazing array of electronic devices and internet access options developed over the past quarter century, we still stand on the shoulders of giants.  On October 24, 1861, the transcontinental telegraph ushered in the wired age of America.   It was a huge development: near real-time communications from coast-to-coast in a country it … Read More about Once Upon a Telegraph