According to Forrester Research, one of the major successes in social media in the near future will be the breakout of sReaders for books, magazines, newspapers and other publications. There are a number of reasons why eReader sales ar gorwing faster than expected including lower prices, more content availability and lots of media buzz. In […]

Recombu.com had an interesting article about ten items the mobile phone will make obsolete. Some are obvious: a) Phone booths; b) wrist watches; c)landline phones; d) alarm clocks; e) compact digital cameras; f) handheld game consoles;g) paper; h) mp3 players. What about the not so obvious like Kindles; Blackberries; handheld gps devices; radios; paper calendars […]

Technical advances in brain scanning now allow individuals to post electronic messages just by thinking them. Last month, Adam Wilson posted a message “Go Badgers” on Twitter and became the first person to post an electronic message just by thinking it, when aided by a scanning device developed at the University of Wisconsin. With a […]

University of Missouri researchers have found that searching for specific information versus general internet searches benefit a person’s congitive capabilities, memory and emotional responses. This is the conclusion of Kevin Wise a Professor at The University f Missouri. His findings are published in the Journal of Modern media Psychology Theories and Applications 2009; 21(2).