John Laposky

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Health In The Palm Of Your Hand

By all accounts, the emergence of the smartphone and tablet as tools for mobile computing, and especially the apps that drive them, has started a revolution in healthcare and fitness. Just as consumers discovered 10 years ago that the iPod could enhance their runs or gym workouts, today’s fitness buffs are faced with a rapidly exploding range of apps and sophisticated digital... More

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Griffin Giving Away iPads, CES Trip

Griffin Technology’s AppPowered Holiday Sweepstakes is underway, a promotion to highlight the company’s AppPowered line of phone and tablet accessories. Each week through Dec. 15, Griffin will be giving prize packages built around their AppPowered “appcessories.” Prizes include Apple iPad 2s, a Gibson electric guitar, a home theater package and an all-expenses... More

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&%$* My Customers Say

Meet Glisignoli, an anonymous CE retail worker. This is his story: “Six years ago I finished a computer certificate and, being 19 with nothing else going on, I got a job working in the “electronics” department of a store. Being the geek that I was I thought I would have no trouble with it. I assumed that there were going to be “technically challenged”... More

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Will The CE Industry Subsidize The Press?

A new Federal Trade Commission discussion draft on “Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism” includes, among many other proposals, a suggestion to tax consumer electronics products and another to add a tax to cellphone bills, all in the name of preserving the viability of the news media. The document is, according to the FTC, “solely for... More

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Happy 115th!

On this day in 1895 in France, Louis Lumiere and his brother were the first entrepreneurs to present projected, moving, photographic pictures to a paying audience of more than one person. With that premiere of “La Sortie de l’usine Lumière a Lyon” (”Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory at Lyon”), the commercial motion picture industry was born, and... More