For over a decade now, both psychologists and education policymakers have accepted the theory that the gender gap in math and science results from what’s called the “stereotype threat.” According to this theory, the reason that girls have historically shunned the study of math and science is because they’ve been raised to believe that the [...]

  Apple launched its iPhone 4S recently, and sold more than 4 million units over the weekend. If you weren’t among the rabid hordes waiting in line to score one of your own, you may be wondering, What’s all the hub-bub, Bub? Here’s a highlight list of ten things you should know about the iPhone 4S: Siri [...]

Who sings that song that is playing on the radio? Oh…it’s right on the tip of my tongue!!! Now you can pull out your iphone and “tag” it with SHAZAM! No more guessing. After “tagging”, you’ll get all available info….Album cover, pictures, artist info, tour dates, and even the lyrics to the song. You can [...]

Communication at the office has definitely changed for the better. I’ve worked in places where shouting across the room was the standard form of contact, while other companies relied on e-mail and phone conversations to pass on assignments and other information. Any system definitely beats having no communication at all, but only in the last [...]

I’ve been living in California for almost 15 years. And over the years technology has advanced so drastically. I used to call my friends and family in South Africa all the time (2-3times per week). You can just imagine what my monthly phone bill was! During the late 90′s it cost me $2.64 per minute [...]

I discovered this app in the past week, and it has become one of my favorites. I needed a better Facebook app for my iPad2. So when my friend Steven Boyd posted something on facebook via FACELY HD, I was curious. I immediately looked it up in the app store, and the first thing that [...]

Fax, print, share. That’s exactly what this app does! I can print any document that I’m viewing on my iPhone4. I can even fax a document to anyone, worldwide! And if I want to send a postcard, I can make my own. I add my own picture to the front, and pay the postage. This [...]

Whenever big brands and companies think about message in most cases they make reference to one-way communication as the main channel for carrying a message. It is also alarming that there is no consideration for cross-platform messaging such as SMS, Instant Messaging, Social Networks, Email etc. The problem is that when the next generation look [...]

According to the most recent figures available, women on average spend a minimum of 2.6 hours each day doing household activities such as cleaning, cooking and doing laundry, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.  But women are busy. And that’s nearly 18 hours a week spent on doing household chores. That cuts into leisure [...]

One of the greatest challenges many technologists face is the adoption of their technology by the crowds and this has been like this for centuries. Below is a classic example of how scared people way back then were to new technology adoption (It comes with subtitles). Source: 2 Billion 1 Lifetime