Tag: Tablets

Good Day with Doug Stephans – Tech Gets More Personal

Play Audio – Good Day with Doug Stephans – July 22nd, 2014

Geek Squad 20th BirthdayWe continue to celebrate Geek Squad’s 20th Birthday by talking to Good Day with Doug Stephans about the technology changes Geek Squad has seen over those last two decades.

Since the days of the shared family desktop computer, we’ve seen tech become more personal, first with everyone having their own laptop to the highly mobile world where everyone from teens to seniors has a personal smartphone with their own access to the Internet.

As devies become more personal, they also start to talk to each other. Geek Squad has changed over the years to help with all these connected devices, with Geek Squad Autotechs helping with bluetooth car audio, Home Theater Agents setting up connected TVs and even our appliance installation and repair teams are looking at washers and dryers that can connect to your home network to let you know when they’re ready to be unloaded.

WTAM 1100 – Apps For Summer Road Trips

 
WTAM 1100 Newsradio Cleveland OhioThe arrival of Memorial Day means that many will be looking forward to warm-weather road trips. Long gone are the days of hard-to-fold paper maps or asking for directions at sketchy gas stations in small town America.

For this week’s Tech Tuesday segment on WTAM 1100’s Wills & Snyder in the Morning, we had a chance to talk about a number of smartphone and tablet apps for road trips that can not only help you get where you are going, but entertain you on the way and help find you a place to stay along the way.

Cleaning the Mobile Germ Warehouse

Your mobile gadgets go everywhere with you, and when you’re handling your smartphone or tablet on a daily basis, they can be a common carrier for unknown germs. I contributed to a New York Times article on how to protect and clean your mobile devices that may help reduce the number of Winter colds you might get while on the go.

WTAM 1100 – Lock, Locate, and Recover Your Mobile Technology

WTAM 1100 – Geek Squad – August 27th, 2012

According to a new study, more than 8,000 mobile devices were left behind at just seven of the country’s largest airports in the last year. I spoke with Cleveland’s WTAM 1100 Newsradio about how you can help lock, locate and recovery your missing mobile technology.