At the time I emailed about a dozen tech guys I know, owners and employees at IT firms, and asked them if I should bite the bullet, ditch the BlackBerry and get a different smartphone.
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Translated: Next time, I swear to God, I'll dump every last tech stock I own the very second I overhear water-cooler speculation about when Nasdaq will overtake the Dow.
Prior to being a technology evangelist, I ran my own tech consulting company, so I know more than the average person about technology.
Just like what I was told by tech support at Kaba when I was researching this matter in order to write a security alert and analysis.
After a few years in graduate school and a stint overseas teaching ESL in Cheju Island, South Korea, I returned to the east coast (Boston) and immersed myself in high-tech trends working for Pinestream Communications, where I edited two high-tech insider investment newsletters, Mobile Internet Times and Telecom Trends.
The winners are, in alphabetical order, California, Maryland and its I-270 tech corridor, New Jersey, Singapore and Wisconsin.
Some of you may be aware that in addition to writing this column, I am a tech industry analyst.
But she knows that I drive our tech better than she does and she's happy to leave it to me.
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As I talk to tech entrepreneurs and policymakers in the coming weeks, we will see this duality in daily practice.
Sure, I write a tech blog for Forbes, run a tech company and often speak at conferences and business events about tech topics.
In an outbreak of moral high-horsing that has (thankfully) now been purged out of me, I decided that tech stocks were overpriced and needed to fall further.
But I am long tech and float shrink, and will add to both positions over time if the market remains at or around current levels or plunges.
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How did I convince these tech newbies that computers could really do something that could look smarter than suggesting you pass on the striped ties with the plaid pants?
Mr. BARRY SMITH (owner, Louisiana Music Factory record store in New Orleans): I'm very low-tech myself, and I know as far as our customers, we still do quite well with the records upstairs.
To put it bluntly, I make my money consulting with tech companies, most of which I write about at one point or another.
My strategy is simply this: when I find out about something in the tech or research area that I think sounds cool, I write about it.
So now, not only do I have to figure out how to balance my life as a mom with my career as a tech CEO, I also have to worry about being perceived as incompetent simply because I breastfed my babies?
If you love phones and mobile tech as I do, it is certainly a dream job.
And quantified self and food and tech like I said earlier, are going to converge at some point.
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Having just witnessed the tech meltdown I had to wonder, jeez, just how much more lax can you get?
Working in high tech, I am surrounded by innovative ideas and collaboration-influenced projects.
As for tech, I do keep my Kindle tucked inside for quick reading.
Bernhard meant her audience (sort of), but I often feel that tech companies feel that way about software developers.
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Last year, I helped a fellow tech start-up founder with his copy and branding strategy without even thinking about it.
The tech stocks I favor are rated STRONG BUY or BUY according to ValuEngine and are at least 15% undervalued.
Earlier, speaking of the second truth of tech, I compared the openness of Windows and Android to the closed nature of Apple products.
One tech exec I know, with a lot of usage data at his fingertips, told me flat out that the two platforms have different kinds of users.
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Tech studies I have read this week imply that the iPhone 5 has a bench speed on the internet that is two or three times faster than my iPad which is not the latest iteration.
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For the past three years I have complained to tech support and high level spokesmen at Verizon about their policy of denying the use of data services, especially onboard cruise ships, but also in other locations that have both CDMA and GSM carriers.
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