Today was amazing and busy. I began with 7am meetings and customers meetings starting at 7:30. I won’t go into any of these (for obvious reasons); however since I have an exhibitor badge, I got onto the show floor at 9am (it opened at 10am) to do my 1st pass rapid pass to scout out […]
Author: Michael Rowe
CES Day 0
Wow.. for a day of setup and a few quick meetings, I logged over 15,000 steps on my Withings Pulse device today. I can honestly say that the excitement for what to see tomorrow is palatable. IoT is everywhere! As an exhibiter I am able to peak around on the various show floors, but this […]
CES 2015 – Day -1
I am back at CES this year with my day job, but for the followers of this blog I will try and post an entry each day to talk about what I’ve seen. Today I flew from RDU to Las Vegas via Atlanta, and after a 2 hour delay to get my luggage at the […]
Happy New Year – 2015
While I’ve not been as productive over the holidays as I had planned, I am looking forward to 2015. As of today, I have taken a new day job, and will be talking about it more over the next month or so. 2014 was a crazy year of transitions, technology, and turmoil: We’ve seen a […]
Friday coding
During my day job I am a product manager. This job does not encourage or provide time to write code. As I was getting ready to take some time off for the thanksgiving holiday, I worked to clear my calendar, clean my inbox and set a few actions in motion so I could really take […]
Learning Swift
I’ve been a big fan of Ray Wenderlich’s site for getting up to speed on iOS programming, etc. For the last few weekends I’ve been spending my “free” time going thru his Swift by example book. While I’ve not gotten too far yet, I am enjoying the material. If you are interested in learning Swift, […]
MacWorld Expo 2015
By now, any reader of this blog already knows that IDC has cancelled MacWorld Expo. While they didn’t say “cancelled,” they did put it on hiatus. As someone who has gone to many different “user” focused conferences over the years, this means cancelle. At least in any form we may recognize. We may see […]
Review – Home Inventory for Mac and iOS
According to the makers of Home Inventory (Binary Formations, LLC. ), September was “National Preparedness Month” and as such they made their flagship product “Home Inventory” available for 50% off. I got the opporuntity to do a review of the Mac product, along with both iOS companion products – Mobile Backup and Photo Remote. Binary Formations […]
Local IoT Demo coming up
As I mentioned in my last post, I am focusing on the Internet of Things in my day job. I am going to be at a local meetup at the end of the month, the RIoT meetup. I love the name, and this is their second event. Unfortunately I missed the first meetup, due to […]
The Internet of Things and App Development
The Internet of Things has been a hot topic for the last 24 months, reaching a fevered pitch in the last few months. When I was at CES earlier this year, you couldn’t find a company that didn’t have some perspective on the Internet of Things (IoT). Car companies, consumer electronic companies, even clothing companies […]