Uncle Sam is now developing iPhone apps. Seriously. Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) launched a time-tracking app for smartphones that tracks an employee’s hours worked, and by doing so, puts employers across the nation on notice. The government-issue technology is fairly basic and has good intentions (protecting employees), but it carries far-reaching implications….
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If you were a tech start-up entrepreneur or venture capitalist in 1995 and you didn’t have a Palm Pilot, you weren’t a tech entrepreneur or a VC – you were just pretending to be one. If you were raising money on Sand Hill Road and you handed a VC a business card instead of beaming…
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Last week, I hit a new pizza place in town that was fantastic, and it struck me how something as old pizza can continually get better and better. After all, as the comparisons go, “Even when pizza is bad it’s still pretty good”. For all the startup practitioners out there who are always on the…
Read MoreQuick! Name the 5 items on the right and describe how they are used. Bad news for those who got all 5 answers correct. You’re an old dog! Archeologists and sociologists mourn the loss of culture, artwork, forgotten science, and dead languages, so they were excited when the Rosetta Stone was discovered. As an archeological find of significant importance, it…
Read MoreFor all you hoops fans out there, we’re smack in the middle of the NCAA Tournament Championship known as March Madness. While many of your brackets have certainly been busted, there is a great chance you’ve been watching the games from one of your mobile devices. This year, CBS and Turner launched native apps for…
Read MoreSmart companies realize that they no longer control their brand. Social media has given voice to the consumer and democratized public opinion. Brand’s have become like NASA-launched deep-space probes. You build them, design them and then launch them into the ether and hope you maintain contact, can exert some control and avoid being hit by…
Read MoreThere are currently thousands of photo applications in the Apple iTunes App Store. I just counted over 1,300 photography applications that have been released since June 2010. So this makes for a rather competitive landscape. But with all the selection, there are certain applications for certain situations. One photo app that has risen to the…
Read MoreEditor’s Notes: This article was contributed to TECH cocktail by John Guidos who practices law out of Chicago, Illinois at the Law Offices of Guidos & Pierotti LLP. Check out their website at: gplawchicago.com or follow John on Twitter: @johnguidos. As cold weather begins to creep though the streets, prostitutes everywhere can breathe a sigh…
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