Steve Thomas - IT Consultant

athos If you’re looking for exercises and workout routines, there are plenty of apps that can help (in fact, FitBit just acquired one of them). But what about making sure that you’re exercising properly? How do you know you’re not working the wrong part of the body, favoring one side over the other, or doing anything else that might lead to an ineffective workout or even injury? Read More
Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Peter Schwartz, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Salesforce SVP of Strategic Planning Peter Schwartz joins the Gang to contrast the world he helped create for Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report with the soon-to-ship world of Apple Watches. Plus, the latest G3 with freelance reporter Shalene Gupta on Ellen Pao’s defense in the… Read More
Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, Peter Schwartz, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today 1:30pmPT. Gillmor Gang on Facebook Today’s live Friendfeed chat during live show broadcast Our sister show G3 on Ustream Our sister show, G3, on Facebook Read More
Screen Shot 2015-03-13 at 12.26.44 PM CrunchWeek is back with a new face running the ship: Recent TechCrunch hire Sarah Lane was our captain this time around, joined by myself and Kyle Russell. We kicked over the most important stories of the week, including the announcement of pricing data and release dates for Apple’s Watch, Box’s earnings which caused the company’s stock to move dramatically, and Meerkat,… Read More
ABC, YAHOO ANNOUNCEMENT Yahoo and ABC (Disney/ABC Television Group) announced this morning an expansion of their partnership first established in 2011, which will see the two companies further integrating each others’ content on their respective properties. For Yahoo, that means access to a variety of clips from popular ABC television shows like “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy,”… Read More
Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include the growing anticipation and detailed leaks about Apple’s March 9 Watch event. Battery life, a locked notification hub, how the Watch will deliver Apple Pay to the wrist, and social signals of wristwear. Plus, G3 on disappearing voicemail, Hillary’s Gmail, and taking… Read More
HTC One M9 It’s evolution not revolution for HTC’s new top-of-the-line smartphone, the One M9. But the predecessors in the range set a high quality bar so HTC evidently feels its flagship handset isn’t in need of radical revisions in the design department. Read More
Dogfish Head Namaste w Ingredients Beer is my favorite food. That means I was especially excited to be able to visit the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, DE, a palace dedicated to the production of some of the nicest beers around. Sam Calagione, founder of the company, wanted to make weird beers at his restaurant on the beach. As he got better – and bolder – he began experimenting with all sorts of amazing flavors… Read More
Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include Microsoft squeezing Facebook and Google messaging out, or did they says John Taschek? Also Google making everything but money on Android; does it all add up to the new Search? And the chat room fears House of Cards will Eat your Weekend. Plus, the latest G3. @stevegillmor, @jtaschek, @kteare… Read More
Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include notifications hitting mainstream, notification startups (Slack), notification creep, and notification envy (Microsoft). For some reason, I’m thinking Telly Savalas with a lollipop. Notifications — who loves ya baby? Plus, the latest G3 below on media crunch and social fatigue. Read More
crunchweek-4-3 Another week in tech has come and gone, bringing a fresh crop of stories for us to talk about on CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to talk about some of the most interesting news of the past seven days. This time, Sarah Buhr, Josh Constine and I gathered around the big white table to talk about Josh’s big story on YikYak’s controversial methods… Read More
Amazon Preview Summer Sand Sculpture Amazon.com hosted a summer preview event in New York City today, and I’ll be real honest: I thought there was going to be more tech stuff. Nonetheless, we soldiered on with a whirlwind tour of the cruelly summer-themed exhibits, highlighting new and popular products on sale on Amazon. Unfortunately, we couldn’t demo the chainsaw or the “Roomba for your lawn,” but I was… Read More