Apple iPhones and Watch Look Great
As usual, the Apple Keynote to introduce the new Apple Watch and three new iPhones, was done with great marketing aplomb. Apple has it down pat. Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you told them works every time. The new Watch will enable millions of people to […]
Internet Voting With Blockchain
Kaya Yurieff, an associate writer focused on consumer technology for CNN Tech, interviewed me in February about Internet voting. Following are the first few paragraphs of her story which appeared online this week. You can do a lot on a smartphone, from depositing a check to ordering groceries. But here’s one thing you can’t do: vote […]
Internet Voting With Blockchain
One day last summer, I was reading news online and came upon an article in The Business Journals, a unit of American City Business Journals (ACBJ), the largest publisher of metropolitan business newsweeklies in the United States. The article, “How to increase voter participation and eliminate fraud with blockchain“, was written by Terry Brock. I found […]
Apple Face Recognition
As usual, the Apple Keynote, which introduced the new Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPhone 8, iPhone 8+, and the iPhone X was done with great marketing aplomb. Apple executives acted like a great team and executed their usual: Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you told […]
Hackers and Voting Machines
A number of readers have asked for a perspective on the news story about a Las Vegas conference where hackers were able to easily break in to 30 voting machines. First of all, despite the sensational headlines, the successful hacking should be no surprise. I wrote about this more than a year ago in Election […]
