By Andy Marken

If you stretch real hard, gamers just might put some buzz/fun back into PC/CE technology like Jim Warren's Computer Faire did back in the Neanderthal days of the industry.

Warren liked his parties and ensuring everyone having a good time so he probably would have wondered about this year's IGDA (International Game Developers Association) closing party... a bunch of scantily clad dancing girls.

Eduardo Darino Exhibit to Feature Decades of Technical Advancements Made in Film/Animation

For many players attempting to cut costs and boost margins, the natural strategy is to collaborate with more channel partners.

By Andy Marken

We recently switched from posting some of our documents from Google's Gdrive (not as catchy as iDrive but...) to dropbox. Gdrive had "issues" and if the work doesn't fit into Google's agenda, you're left hanging.

The Bangkok Post reported Post Publishing, its parent company, will be producing Forbes Thailand in June 2013, with a target circulation of 100k copies per month, reports Christel Lee from PrintWorld Asia. Supakorn Vejjajiva, the chief operating officer of Post Publishing was quoted as saying.

By Andy Marken

To me, the most exciting part of the computer and consumer electronics industries is also one of the dullest ... storage.

Oh sure, we like the new smartphones, tablets, ultra ultra HDTVs and ultrabooks they showed at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and all the bling folks come up with to personalize them; but really, without storage they're just...

By Andy Marken

People want (O.K., expect) free searches on the web, free places to post all their really interesting information, free places to park stuff – documents, videos, photos, comments.

By Andy Marken

Apple ... Amazon ... Facebook ... Google ... Samsung

Each one is ahead in the game of content, devices, customers–depending on the report you read, the phase of the moon or your personal preference/prejudice.

By Andy Marken

Government leaders, scientists, business leaders, health officials and educators are excited see how they can analyze the growing clouds of data you're generating/depositing.

By Andy Marken

Depending on where you live on the planet things are good and getting better or bad and getting worse. Let me check my Facebook and Twitter accounts and get back to you on that.

If you want, you can check with the government and the bank but then...

It has been more than four years since the global economy took a downturn.

By Andy Marken

Marketing and communications (publicity) folks were so busy jockeying to show they were running, managing and controlling social media they didn't noticed they had lost it to the machines ... all of it.

The machines just like in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "I Robot" had digitized, dehumanized people just as in TV's "Person of Interest" and Spielberg's "Lincoln." The machines didn't care about Likes or followers.

By Andy Marken

Our kids love the fact that they have a couple of thousand Likes and Followers.

Our daughter is excited when she receives coupons and exclusive offers (especially when she's in the store) and when concert hints pop up on her iPhone.

But if you tell her that companies and retailers are tracking her search, site visits and other activities, she's furious.