Craig Froehle has long been amazed by the possibilities enabled by new and interesting technologies. As an early adopter of the original Pilot PDA in 1996, he founded the company that would become MemoWare, the planet's largest collection of PDA-formatted ebooks and content. MemoWare was purchased by Handmark in 2001. Craig is currently a business professor at the University of Cincinnati in the department of Quantitative Analysis & Operations Management. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his academic research focuses on helping hospitals and healthcare providers improve their efficiency and quality. Most of all, Craig enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, including watching movies, travelling, hiking, and discussing who should have the remote control. Craig rarely has the remote control.

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Segways: Gas Crunch Solution for Fat Cops?
It's hard being a visionary; nobody knows you're right until well after you did, and by then it may be too late. Take Dean Kamen, for example. Inventor of over 27.3 million different gizmos, his much-maligned Segway was supposed to redefine how we think of cities. It didn't. Not even...

Fixed the 'Power Drain During Hibernate' Bug on my Fujitsu LifeBook
Recently, I got a Fujitsu LifeBook P8010 ultraportable. It's a black, shiny beauty with ports and features a-plenty. And at just 2.9 lbs, it certainly won't break my back. But (and there always seems to be a "but") the notebook had this annoying tendency to drain power even while hibernated....

Technical Maturation of the Smartphone Market
I'm heartened to see stories like this: Windows Mobile to get pumped up on Nvidia (CNET). I've tried Windows Mobile many times and every time two things send me running as fast as I can away from the platform: 1) The god-awful user interface 2) The reliance of WM on...

Since his was old enough to pick up a screwdriver, Bob Nonnenkamp has been tearing objects apart to see how they work. Eventually he learned to put them back together again, a great relief to his family. He received a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering (and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do) at the University of Louisville. He has worked the last 15 years in a wide spectrum of roles at a worldwide technical company, which has offered him the opportunity to meet some interesting people and travel to interesting places. His current quest is to find a satisfying balance between work, family, pets, and recreation.

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U-verse multicasting collides with ISPs
I am no network expert, but I've dabbled in streaming content over computer networks at work. So I find it interesting to know how the various cable/phone/satellite companies get their digital goodness delivered to my house. Unique solutions, like this AT&T solution, pique my curiosity. This wikipedia article summarizes the...

Kill your desk

I slouch. I can almost always be found working with my laptop in my lap and my feet kicked up, resting on my desk. So I performed an experiment -- I killed my desk.

Gadget catharsis
My employer consolidated the management of cell phones and plans, forcing me to abandon my Treo 650 for a Blackberry 8830. Yeah, I know. The Blackberry vs random other brand mobile phone here comparison post is way too overdone. You don't need me to tell you the differences. This isn't...

Ken Rhee has been interested in innovation and creativity ever since he can remember. He was always playing and tinkering with new toys when he was growing up -- he was just curious about a lot of different things. Ken is currently a management professor at Northern Kentucky University. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland prior to coming to NKU. His research and teaching interests are leadership and emotional competencies, groups, adult learning, and organizationl change and development. When he is not working on his research or teaching, he can be found doing a number of 'odd' things. His main hobbies include his PDA (Pilot 1000 was his very first), computing, photography, audio, and reading (I have been told I have an eclectic taste by people who know me). He also loves travelling with his lovely wife, Stephanie, and playing golf and tennis. He would love to find more time (and money) to devote to his hobbies since they tend to be both time consuming and expensive.

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Pain Squared
Since we are running "pain" entries this week, I will add a few of my own: 1. The hard drive in my Scientific Atlanta DVR just conked out. I have had the unit for less than 2 months! Time Warner is sending the service personnel tomorrow to fix it (my...

Good Old Fashion Grading--no technology in sight
As you are aware, I'm a college professor, and toward the end of April and the beginning of May, I suffer from a burnout. As students face the end-of-the-semester burnout from preparing for exams and writing their major projects, we the teachers also suffer from another kind of burnout. I...

My experience with IBM Thinkpad Support--Thumb up or down?
As you have been aware that I have recently upgraded our in-home wireless to 802.11g from 802.11b. Of course, I naturally wanted to upgrade the internal mini-PCI card (Intel Pro 802.11b) in my Thinkpad 41p rather than to add a CardBus wireless card (which I have done with my...

Mitchell Hamm is a mechanical engineer by trade and spends his days managing the engineering activities of a very successful manufacturing facility near Cincinnati. Time away from work is filled with a whirlwind of activites rotating about his lovely wife Victoria and frighteningly intelligent two-year-old daughter named Trinity. Computing, fast cars, movies, sports and electronics have always been his passions, but his greatest achievement in life is being a great father. Though always a Kentuckian, he currently resides in West Chester, Ohio.

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Chernobyl On Two Wheels
Combine a pretty Ukrainian girl named Elena, a big ZX-11 Kawasaki, a Geiger counter and what's left of Chernobyl and you have a winning website in my book. Elena's probably ill-advised forays into the Chernobyl nuclear dead zone reap some really poignant photos and being the daughter of a...

Modern Day Public Branding
On the way to work this morning a big white pickup truck pulled out in front of me without even looking. I'm so used to trucks and SUVs driving like wankers that I wasn't even creative with my expletives. My blood pressure did not spike one bit. Sitting behind...

Free Google eMail
I heard this morning that Google will be offering free email accounts with 1 gig of storage in the near future. If you don't want to be Bob54789 you better be ready to jump....

Sam Peralta is a poet, novelist and songwriter who moonlights as director of business development at Kinectrics, a successful utility engineering company. Sam also founded Qvadis, one of the earliest Palm software companies, and is now at work on his next project. Sam earned his Ph.D. in laser physics from the University of Wales, UK, and holds patents in nuclear batteries and other technologies. Other fun things he's done recently include spearheading the acquisition of a Texas Instruments solar business, developing a system for datacasting over power lines, building a Sonar-based personal music studio, and coming up with the recipe for a killer seafood fettucine in a pesto cream sauce.

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CTIA Cellphone Directory - Open to Abuse?
The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) has announced that it is putting together a directory which will contain 75% of the 163 million mobile phone numbers in the USA. The CTIA is positioning the directory towards real estate agents and other mobile professionals who want people to be able...

Archeologists Locate Library of Alexandria
Archaeologists have announced that they have discovered the site of the Library of Alexandria. A Polish-Egyptian team has uncovered what look like lecture halls in the Bruchion region of the city. The 13 lecture halls uncovered could potentially house 5,000 scholars. A conspicuous feature of each of the rooms is...

Portable Light
Universal Display Corporation (UDC), is presenting a collection of new product concepts for Wired's NextFest, being held this weekend in San Francisco. UDC is a developer of organic light emitting devices (OLED), with applications for flat panel display screens and other applications. UDC will be showcasing three innovations, a...