Category: CES

  • Packed for CES

    I’ve been reading the horror stories about surviving the mammoth Consumer Electronics Show with some trepidation. There’s Survival Gear for Battling 100,000 Nerds in a Desert. Then I spied our own intrepid Todd Bishop of GeekWire in his lovely fly fishing vest. Me?  Well, I’m in an unusual situation.  I’m there to promote my graduate…

  • As 2011 comes to a close, the economic situation remains bleak. Usually, graduate school applications rise during a depressed job market, but the ongoing uncertainty has discouraged some potential students from pursuing a graduate degree — MBA applications are down 10%, according to The Wall Street Journal. Yet with the rise of social media and the rapid…

  • Check out my conversation with Margaret Larson about the latest and greatest apps (Alaska Airlines, GoGoKiddo, Google Currents) as well as some words of “wisdom” about the Kindle Fire and the new 5.3″ Samsung Galaxy Note (the one device to rule them all?).  We’ll be doing this on a monthly basis, so I look forward…

  • “Video games will be the fastest-growing and most exciting form of mass media over the coming decade” declares the headline to The Economist’s recent video games special report “All the world’s a game.” According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a consulting firm, the global video-game market was worth around $56 billion last year. That is more than…