More Life Control in Seattle

Small business owners, you may soon be violating the law if you bag purchases for your customers in Seattle. Yesterday the Seattle City Council passed an ordinance that bans the use of plastic bags. The bill also requires that stores charge customers five-cents for paper bags. Apparently, encouraging customers to bring their own reusable bags to the store was not enough. They...

Search Engine Use Replaced by Apps

Yesterday, I found a phone directory on my doorstep and wondered why it is still produced. If I need a phone number, I go online to find it. Needless to say, online activities supersede many things that simply used to be. I no longer have a land line phone. Skype and cell fulfills my need to chat with friends, family and clients. My online content consumption as done away with my need...

What’s with the boxes? Mobile Tagg...

Mobile tagging, according to Wikipedia, is the process of providing data read from tags for display on mobile devices, commonly encoded in a two-dimensional barcode, using the camera of a camera phone as the reader device. The content of the tag code is usually a URL for information addressed and accessible through Internet. There are dozens of different 2-D barcode standards. ...