I noticed a generation gap when I began planning an upcoming vacation trip to Greece, a destination that my son and his family visited last year. When I asked if he had any guidebooks, he said he doesn’t use them and relies entirely on the… Read More »Are travel guidebooks still useful?
This is not about a labor strike of autoworkers. It’s about the baffling decision-making at General Motors that flies in the face of market trends and common sense. In recent weeks GM has announced that they’re killing CarPlay and Android on many of their future… Read More »GM’s third strike
With several trips coming up, I’ve been surveying new carry-on luggage. I’ve been using a 22-inch 4-wheel softsided expandable rollaboard from Briggs & Riley for nearly ten years. It’s served me well, but it nows needs its wheels replaced as the rubber tread is shedding.… Read More »Searching for a new rollaboard
Travel tech once meant chargers, backup batteries and luggage scales, but now it’s more about apps on your phone, tablet, and watch. Having just returned from a week in Japan, I relied on a whole new set of apps on my iPhone that made my… Read More »Travel tech
General Motors has been taking a lot of criticism and ridicule with their announcement this week that it’s planning to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto from its electric vehicles beginning in 2024. CarPlay and Android Auto allow you to use many of your phone… Read More »General Motors makes a bad call
It seems as if I’ve been using flight apps ever since the beginning of apps. They’ve been great for keeping informed of my upcoming flights or flights I meet to pick up friends and relatives. As they’ve evolved over the years, they’ve added features such… Read More »Flighty – A proactive travel app
I’ve always been interested in photography from my first job designing cameras for Polaroid. I’ve owned most brands of film and digital cameras over the years including Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Fuji, Ricoh and Leica. One of the criteria for choosing a camera and lens is… Read More »When is a photo real or fake?
It seems more and more we’re taking action on behalf of a cause, in opposition to an event, as a way to make a statement, or to address a grievence. Is it because there’s more things to get upset about, our expectations are greater, or… Read More »Speaking up to make things right
In my column last August I predicted that Facebook had peaked and was facing an existential threat that was unreversible. I wrote: I’ve been around the high tech industry for more than 40 years and have experienced it first hand. Usually what you see from… Read More »Facebook continues to fall
This morning I awoke to an email from United Airlines, telling me that the reservations we made a few months ago after many days of effort were now being changed. As I noted in an earlier column, my wife and I worked for days to… Read More »That ominous email from your airline