Category: Tech
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Savings Catcher
If you shop at Wal-Mart, no more scanning a million sales papers to see who has the lowest prices. Nope! Wal-Mart has a new program called Savings Catcher. Simply shop and buy what you normally would and scan your receipt afterwards. Wal-Mart searches local stores (Kroger, Publix, Walgreens, Target, etc.) for lower prices and refunds you the…
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FitBit for Money
Remember Bump? The Google app that allowed you to “tap” another app to transfer contact information to a friend? The idea seemed pretty cool at the time, even though it failed. What if you could use this same concept of “tapping” or “bumping” to send cash to a friend or perform other financial transactions?! Not with your…
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HomeKit
Apple makes it very difficult to not to immerse yourself in its ecosystem. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve switched to Google’s services (mail, calendar, chrome) on my iPhone, hoping something would be different, better. In the end seamless integration always wins and I’m back to Apple. As a newly certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (queue the…
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World 3.0, Yahoo Style
World 3.0. That’s Katie Couric’s new Yahoo series that highlights, “Leaders in technology, health, philanthropy and business share the secrets of their success and the innovations that are improving, and in some cases disrupting, their industries.” The Economist wrote about Technology being an enabler of The Sharing Economy back in 2013 and Katie’s spotlight is…
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Algorithms Everywhere
I love MATH, LOGIC, PROBLEM SOLVING and COMPUTERS – not just actually using them, but the actual process of coming up with and building rules to make them behave in a certain way and telling them HOW to do it (that’s called an algorithm and that’s what Software/Computer Engineers do!). Did you know that lots of things we…
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