Category: Tech Company

An Interview With Technology’s “Kingmaker”- Walter Mossberg

Technology moves so fast, and no one has done a better job of explaining every new technology to consumers than Walter Mossberg, founder of the popular technology blog AllthingsD, and creator of the personal technology column in The Wall Street Journal. Mossberg has interviewed everyone from Bill Gates, to Mark Zuckerberg, to Steve Jobs. Mossberg’s writing has brought him numerous awards and given him...

AT&T- Pissing Off Customers since 1879?

AT&T seems large now, but one century ago it was worth the equivalent of $300 billion (2012 dollars). That would have made it the third largest company in the world today. Also, although they may seem sort of complacent now, they actually did do some great things in the past (the title was a joke). The US’s largest telecom company has had quite the fascinating history...

The Day I Pranked the President of Canon Cameras

Recently I was reminiscing with friends about a game we played a few years ago(probably four years). We’d call a company, and see how far up the corporate ladder we could prank call. One of us had the bright idea to prank call Canon. We started with their publicly available corporate office phone number. The first person we got was a secretary, followed by...

Google Glass? Bah. Old Technology- Here’s the Real Innovator

Google Glass seems way ahead of its’ time… and then you look at the market and find that several other similar (though not as high-tech) technologies do in fact exist. Case and point: The Oakley Airwave. These cool (in multiple senses) high-flying ski Goggles feature a heads-up display using the same display principle as google glass to display things such as your location, airtime,...

What My Trip To the Pharmacy Taught Me About Technology

Happy Turkey day everyone. In 1963 the Jetsons first aired and a new generation of dreamers was introduced to a dreamy future of  widespread technology, videochatting, robots, and flying cars. It seemed so crazy then, but minus the flying cars and life in space, our lives are very similar to that of the Jetsons. The incredible point that we had reached became especially apparent...