Want an app that works the way you do? AI tools can build websites, organizers, games and other projects from simple written or spoken prompts.

AgeTech Collaborative from AARP has sought out companies that make aging easier. Here are a few examples of some companies AARP’s worked with.

Technology changes everything about our lives, including how we age. Sometimes great new tech ideas need help to rise above the clatter. Since late 2021, AgeTech Collaborative from AARP has sought out companies with great products that make aging…

America Online's foray into blogging began 20 years ago this month with AOL Journals In September of 2003 AOL launched its micro-publishing product in an effort to delight (er, hold onto) its members. However by then many had tasted the sweet nectar…

After decades of frugal living in rural Maine, my mother spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to maintain a decent standard of care during her years of decline. And so might you. But it doesn’t have to be that way. While technology has not emerged…

When data-enabled mobile phones arrived over 20 years ago they promised to extend the wave of Internet adoption beyond the PC to anywhere consumers wanted to roam. Email under the table during boring meetings? sure. Text-based games in the bathroom?…

I entered a time machine recently, with the ticket to ride being my phone — naturally — and traveled years deep into the last century where I fell into a good old fashioned … party line?People were chattering on about shorting stocks in one corner…

I entered a time machine recently through my phone, and traveled deep into the last century, where I fell into an old-fashioned party line. For those of you too young to remember, that was a telecom service where people could dial in and socialize in…

One morning at our local bagel shop I watched as a tall man in skinny jeans approached to order, still scanning his iPhone 11 and intently push-pulling through the posts of some app or other. Standard behavior these days of course, but what happened…

WASHINGTON—AARP has been named one of Fast Company’s 2020 Best Workplaces for Innovators. Now in its second annual year, the list honors businesses and organizations that demonstrate a deep commitment to encouraging innovation at all levels. AARP…

A conversation at the United Nations Crossing off "speaking at the UN" is not something I ever imagined having the privilege to do. (As life goals go, it's a good one.) But this Fall I was surprised by an invitation from the United Nations via my…

When data-enabled mobile phones arrived over 20 years ago they promised to extend the wave of Internet adoption beyond the PC to anywhere consumers wanted to roam. Email under the table during boring meetings? sure. Text-based games in the bathroom?…

"It's simple. I just remove everything that is not David." This quote is commonly attributed to Michelangelo in response to Pope Julius II's question about how he was able to produce such a masterwork. No evidence indicates the exchange ever…

It’s lunch time, but Larry Kramer is not eating. He’s too busy reviewing the new iPad edition of USA Today, comparing it against the Web, taking a call and attending to a blogger all at once. Then there’s the nasty cold that would keep some people…

At the outset, Ourglass, based in Campbell, Calif., thought it was going to be selling hardware products to bars and restaurants. But why do that when you can give all that away and sell lucrative sponsorships? And how? By making the TV smarter of…

I can’t say I’m proud of working my way through the vices in this column. But if I do get to sloth, please somebody stop me. Let’s see, there was that time I wrote about an app to help you party and hook up with foreigners when you travel. Then of…

How many times have you been stuck in traffic trying to get to the gym before the window closes and you need to be at work or home for dinner? I’m betting for many of you it’s a lot — certainly is for me. But suppose that gym on the other side of a…

This was originally published on Street Fight Marketers using mobile phones to connect real-time data and buyer-intention to drive and measure consumer foot traffic is a tired vision of the future from last year … it has more to do with our past than…

Marketers using mobile phones to connect real-time data and buyer-intention to drive and measure consumer foot traffic is a tired vision of the future from last year … it has more to do with our past than our future. It’s so 2016. How about cars…

We’ve all been there — asked to open our address books so a software tool could swipe our contacts and email friends or neighbors to help spread the word about something of interest, or include them in the cool new app we just discovered. These days…