It's officially the Holiday Season throughout most of the world. Many of our most family-centric holidays happen at this time of year and that always means travel. Whether you're going somewhere to be with loved ones or they're coming to you, here are some travel apps that no one should...

The other day, I saw someone looking at their wrist and then at the speaker, in the time-honored gesture that means "hurry up." Then I realized that the person doing this had no watch on their wrist. The gesture is still there, but the time piece it references is not....

If you're like me, you attend a lot of conferences, events, presentations, and the like. They happen in nearly every business and always involve groups of people coming together in a hotel conference room to listen to presentations and interact with the presenters. During these events, there are five distinct...

When you read about discrimination in the information technology workforce, you'll be reading about one of two things: about how one group of people is underrepresented in the workforce or how another group of people is funding themselves through programs that only benefit their group. Both stories are talking about...

All of us have seen those little blocks of random mess that are supposed to be the (more) modern equivalent of bar codes. Called QR Codes, these little blocks can keep a lot of data in a small space. They were supposed to transform how mobile users interact with the...

There are a lot of startups out there and many of them have great ideas that will likely get somewhere, given time and resources to do so. One thing that I see a lot in the startups and products I'm asked to review are technologies being billed as products that...

A few months ago, Specific Media acquired MySpace, the old social networking platform that has been shedding users like Tony Blair sheds political allies. At the time of the acquisition, the company had a lot of plans for how it was going to make MySpace new again, a neo-MySpace, as...

How often do you travel, whether it be across town or across the continent? Daily? Weekly? How much could you save if you pre-planned those trips using an app that can optimise your travel for both price and time? What about what you'll do once you're there?

Chances are,...

Businesses are embracing social media like never before. For many, it's now a matter of course to have a Facebook page, Twitter account, and profiles on Digg and the like. With all of this social media hype, however, comes the danger of over-focusing. Many businesses, especially smaller shops and owner-operator...

After the 2010 elections were over, the opinions started to fly as to whether social media had any real impact on them. Most of the focus was wrong. The question wasn't whether social media had a big impact on the elections.. it's how obvious it became that, since it was...

Going out? Not sure where? Tired of the same old scene, the same boring club, the same lame DJ, the same drinks, the same.. everything? Well, put a dress on your iPhone and take her out on the town! If you want a fun, fresh, new experience out.. There's an...