Gordon's Notes

Two articles from my share feed today … Transit systems are growing too complex for the human mind … “What makes it messy is the presen...

Our family loves our Google Calendars. Today, looking at Calendars 5.app on my iPhone , I see that our 5 (human) family members own 8 calend...

If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare institutions can’t easily share data between computer systems, just take a look at Calendaring in iOS...

I finally realized what I want. I don’t want an iPad. I don’t want an aWatch. I want a Zenith CruisePad for my iPhone … Rather than a ...

Remember when Apple made ads about ripping CDs? iTunes and the iPod made it elegantly easy [1]. The ads were coy but clear -- wink, wink ste...

Fifteen years ago, I predicted sand-based tablet devices would soon follow the price-collapse trajectory of the pocket calculator . They wou...

I remember when Google seemed to be somewhat friendly to standards and to the idea of open interchange. That was, of course, Google 1.0. No...

I bought a Nexus 7 four weeks ago, deliberating violating Gordon's Laws of Acquisition . In particular, I wasn't sure what I'd ...

A colleague of mine bought a $200 unlocked Android phone made by Acer. He's pairing it with an AT&T paygo plan using an automated pu...

Asymco estimates half of Americans will use a smartphone by the end of 2011 . That means either an Android OS device or an Apple iPhone, sin...

iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) come with parental controls. Android OS, interestingly, does not . This is rarely discussed [1]. Pare...

We are way past the tipping point if the no contract $149 Android phone is real [1]. The replacement for the $150 ChromeOS Netbook has com...

Jean-Louis Gassée, once CEO of Apple head of Mac development, drops a stunner in mid-column ... The Carriers’ Rebellion | Monday Note ... G...

It was just another week in the age of insecurity. Yet another low tech Windows-only trojan spread throughout American corporations, costing...

The Google-Apple war continues , with a new front opening last week. The notorious Larry Ellison, close ally of the infamous Steve Jobs, ha...

Tim Bray works for Google, so he's not a great source on the state of Android phones. (He's a smart critic of the iPhone though.) On...

I love you Google. Thank you for the Nexus One Phone. Sold unlocked even when subsidized . Google Voice baked in. Navigation. Location shari...

Charlie Stross is a literate geek who makes a living inventing plausible worlds . That's why he can write one of the best tech posts of ...

Wilson Rothman (Gizmodo) has a great essay on Google’s consumption of TomTom, Garmin, and the map data industry . It isn’t just the new Droi...

A few millennia ago I read quite a bit about "appropriate technology" applications for what was then known as "the third worl...