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Monthly Archives July 2011

Longevity of Tech Companies

The Economist, on the one hundred birthday of IBM, offered an interesting article attempting to identify factors that determine longevity in the tech sector and speculating regarding which present companies offer these characteristics. Before you look, make your own predictions. It is an interesting topic and one that we might examine from our own personal [...]

Posted 29 July 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Are email and email lists (listservs) in decline?

I don’t know if this is a weird thing to wonder about or not. I started thinking about this because I am doing some writing and I was updating a section concerning the educational use of email lists. I wanted to provide an example. I have been a long time subscriber to wwwedu and I [...]

Posted 13 July 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

First Impressions of Chromebook

I can’t resist a new gadget. However, I must have a way to convince myself that I am doing research of some type to make the purchase. I had convinced myself that I needed to purchase some type of android tablet, but after my wife’s iPad 2 arrived I decided that there was no way [...]

Posted 07 July 2011 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: