http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:36:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ThinkTech and the Hawaii Venture Capital Association are collaborating on another luncheon panel program on April 25th at the Plaza Club. This one is called Hawaii's Growing Financial Connection with Asia - and what we can do to improve our prospects. Asia has the fastest growing economies in the world, ... http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/04/10/pursuing-our-destiny-with-asia-april-25th/ The February 28th ThinkTech-Hawaii Venture Capital Association luncheon panel program will deal with transportation in Hawaii, a subject which is extremely complex and politically sensitive but which has a profound effect on our economy and our quality of life, whether we realize it or not. It’s time we understood ... http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/02/05/transportation-in-hawaii-on-february-28th/ It’s nice to hear that the Legislature is testing a pilot project to allow people on the neighbor islands to testify on bills by way of video conferencing. Civil Beat says the project deserves “championing,” but actually it seems rather like a no-brainer that we should have done years ... http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/01/30/we-dont-need-a-pilot-for-legislative-videoconferencing/ DSLRs have been in competition with the smaller digital cameras, and in many ways they have lost that competition. This is especially obvious at Christmas time, when so many new cameras get rolled out. The smaller digital cameras, as well as the iPhone and Android smartphones, are cheaper, ... http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/01/02/slrs-are-changing-the-world-of-video/ A friend of mine is moving to Oregon. He has many good reasons. When he got there, he wrote a note saying how great things were, trying to make us eat our hearts out. And he said this: “People (here) are unbelievably nice and polite. Can you believe, ... http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2012/12/20/a-message-to-those-ignore-turn-signals/ Kauai County has announced a partnership with catalogchoice.org of Berkeley, California, to stop unwanted mail for people on Kauai. This is all good and the media has picked it up. It limits junk mail, saves on the effort of throwing it out, saves on landfill space and constrains the ... http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2012/12/12/the-kauai-junk-mail-program-is-a-wake-up-call/ Christmas is a time of shopping, that we know so well, and more and more of that is online. But what puts shoppers into their customary feeding frenzy is the prospect of low prices and unbeatable bargains. More than before, those prices are being set by technology. It’s one ... http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2012/12/04/the-christmas-shopping-race-goes-to-the-fleet-of-foot/ MOOCs (massive online open courses) are going to change higher education and for that matter pubic education around the world. At least three MOOCs companies have been started in the past five years to offer online courses where students can take the courses for a “certification.” The field is just ... http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2012/11/19/moocs-are-here-to-stay/ It’s not just that we get email every day, repeatedly, from every candidate. It’s not just that we get social media from them too. It’s that the elections create a thought bubble where people are not only trying to get our attention, but to affect our thought process. The ... http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2012/10/30/more-than-you-know-technology-has-changed-elections/ Last week, the Israelis shot down a drone that flew into their airspace from over the Gaza Strip. It’s not the first time this has happened. There have been other drones shot down by Israel. None of these are Israeli or U.S. drones. They're made and sent by ... http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2012/10/09/drones-are-here-to-stay/