Communicating in a networked world
Looks like there'll be a Blackberry with a touchscreen interface soon. Maybe they're just trying to cash in on the popularity of the iPhone, with its touchscreen interface (meaning that you type on a touch-screen rather than on a real keyboard), but … [Continue reading]
It's been a whole month since I wrote anything in my blog? What happened? (Or rather, what did not happen?) Well, let's just blame it on Twitter. Or on the new iPhone. Or on two clients wanting 70-hour weeks from me all month. Or on processing 4 … [Continue reading]
The Clear program at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has suffered an almost-predictable blow - a stolen laptop computer containing confidential records. Clear is the program that pre-screens travelers, collects biometric data, puts this … [Continue reading]
At first when Mike Liebhold (of IFTF) pointed me at the Netshare iPhone application from Nullriver, I was hopeful that we possibly could have a "tethered iPhone." This means we could use an iPhone to allow our Mac to have access to the Internet when … [Continue reading]
My real-world mixed-reality games were originally built to depend primarily on SMS (AKA "TXT" in the US) messaging. As the years went on (I started this in 2002) I found that I had to develop the games further so they could be played by email. As … [Continue reading]