SXSW began as a music festival in 1987 and is now the world’s largest. In addition, it has grown into a festival of festivals, including film, technology, ecology, medicine, and education. The festivals feature educational, networking and promotional activities as well as relevant trade shows. If that sounds kind of serious, don’t worry, there are parties, gaming, COSPLAY, and things that cannot be categorized.
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Technology Gift Guide 2016
Here are some of the latest advances in technology products to enhance the lives of you and your loved ones.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Between Worlds,’ An Interactive Novel by Skip Brittenham
'Between Worlds' by Skip Brittenham takes us into an entirely new action packed and interactive work of imagination. Brittenham has given us an alternate reality that is different then those that have come before. His world is full of beauty but also littered with beasts of terrible ferocity. As in most worlds there are good and bad characters, but his small deceptions make is difficult to tell between the two.
Read More »Why Tech Smarts Matter: Tech Literacy Beyond IT
Don’t let technology leave you behind when it can enable you to do so much more.
Read More »SXSW: Sucked Into the Story: Virtual Reality and News
Can news reporters use virtual reality? This is the question that participants at “Sucked Into the Story: Virtual Reality and News” tried to answer at SXSW. I had the feeling that somewhere around 1950, a similar group of people sat around discussing what the impact of “this television thing” would be on radio news. We may be at a similar juncture.
Read More »SXSW: Virtual and Augmented Reality Checks
More sophisticated augmented reality applications can scan your environment, for example, a living room, and place virtual objects on walls and flat surfaces. The user can interact with these virtual objects to play games, or solve puzzles or mysteries.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The God’s Eye View,’ A Political Conspiracy Thriller by Barry Eisler
A conspiracy of sinister and dangerous proportions will keep you riveted when reading "The God’s Eye View" by Barry Eisler.
Read More »Google’s Project Fi Promises Seamless Switching Between Cellular and Wireless Service
Google claims Project Fi is the best mobile network service to date, and guarantees a secure, encrypted network no matter the connection.
Read More »After Mobilegeddon: How Google’s Algorithm Change is Affecting Rankings
Surprisingly, major websites like YouTube, Amazon, and Target ranked relatively low on the list, with YouTube only showing up as mobile-friendly a quarter of the time.
Read More »Interview with David J Rodger, author of ‘Oakfield’
Drop the romance about being a writer – it’s a job, one you should enjoy but ultimately one you’ll have to make sacrifices to succeed in.
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