The New Hampshire House is considering a ban on texting while Driving. Please, no.

Posted January 23, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: cell phone, communications, driving, law, restriction, texting. Be the first one.

Competitive Intelligence: “a large fuzzy animal may be a bear.”

Marketing: “SAP can help you understand your fuzzy animals. With over 30 years in the fuzzy animal industry, we know if you are looking at a bear, a guy in a coat, or a large dog.”

Communications: “In today’s world of increasing challenges, It’s obvious fuzzy animals are what our customers care about.”

Sales: “Who cares what it is. Let’s kill it and eat it.”

Posted March 24, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: animal, communications, competitive intelligence, fuzzy, joke, large, large fuzzy animal, large fuzzy animals, marketing, perspective, sales. 2 Comments.

I’m quite taken with my new Bluetooth headset, despite the little hiccup I encountered. So, naturally, I’m thinking about how it would work with the VoIP softphone that’s promised for the Pepper Pad soon. I’ve become a super-fan of Gizmo Project on my PowerBook, but that loaner Pepper Pad was a capable enough and more [...]

Posted October 14, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Technology. Tags: bluetooth headset, communication, communications, desktop mac, gizmo project, mobile, mobile communications, mobility, pepper, pepper pad, powerbook, softpphone, telephone, telephony, voip, voip service, voip softphone. Be the first one.

Gary Wolf wrote in the June issue of Wired about how smart mobs in New York’s World Trade Center outbrained the “authorities” and enjoyed higher survival rates because of it. Wolf is talking about the NIST report on Occupant Behavior, Egress, and Emergency Communications (warning: PDFs). There’s also this executive summary and this looks like [...]

Posted June 2, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: authorities, authority, blackberries, civil engineers, communications, defense, disaster, disobey, egress, elevators, emergency, evacuees, question, question authority, report, review, security, smartmob. 3 Comments.