Travels with Rhody

Well, the wait is over. I’ve got my iPad, and now the fun begins — the fun of figuring out how this thing is going to fit into my life. I know I’ll find a hundred uses for it that I haven’t even thought of yet, but for now I’m going to enjoy the [...]

I couldn’t be more gratified about the response that the Mass Mobile Month campaign has been generating in the local technology community. With 15 events on the docket between late February and early April, and with something like 25 supporting organizations signed up to help promote them, it’s looking like March 2010 will be the [...]

One of our big projects for the last week at Xconomy has been launching MassMobileMonth.com, a website collecting information about the unusually large selection of mobile technology events going on in and around Boston in March 2010. With help from more than a dozen organizations and companies around town, we’ve put together a detailed guide [...]

I’m reading, with amusement, a post today by Sam Gustin, a senior writer at Daily Finance, called “Apple Tablet: 10 Things We (Already) Hate About You.” It’s clever but misguided, and a few hours premature—let’s at least wait to see what Apple has been working on before we conclude that it’s worthless.
Gustin’s points and my [...]

I submitted my “World Wide Wade” column today, Tablet Fever: How Apple Could Go Where No Computer Maker Has Gone Before, to Slashdot, the news aggregator site for nerds. (I count myself as one of those, by the way.) When Slashdot accepts and links to your articles, it can bring tens of thousands of page [...]

In a presentation at the Boston Book Festival last weekend, Jon Orwant, a Google engineer involved in the company’s Book Search project, made a memorable and, I thought, quite perceptive remark about the e-book business.
“Think about the books you have at home and how you organize them,” Orwant said. “Some of you may not organize [...]

Got an unexpected scoop today while attending a session on the future of reading at the inaugural Boston Book Festival. Turns out that the Internet Archive and the One Laptop Per Child Foundation have been working behind the scenes for the last year to convert the 1.6 million public-domain books scanned by the Archive for [...]

Robonica, a startup in Beverly, MA, is rolling out a new robot toy this week, via the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog. My story about the debut is up at Xconomy this morning. I had a chance to play with one of the Roboni-i devices at MassTLC’s Tech Tuesday event a couple of weeks ago, and I [...]