Author Archives: Stewart Wolpin

About Stewart Wolpin

I have been writing about consumer electronics for four decades, including news, reviews, analysis and history for a wide variety of consumer, niche and trade outlets. For the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), I annually update the industry's history and write the official biographies of the CTA Hall of Fame inductees. Aside from writing about consumer technology for a variety of consumer, tech and trade publications, I write a blog and do market research for Digital Technology Consulting. In the non-tech world, I have written "Bums No More: The Championship Season of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers" and "The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle." Check out my work at www.stewartwolpin.com.

The Videophone Turns 50: The Historic Failure That Everybody Wanted

Posted on 21 April 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

Consumer videophone service turns 50 – except how we videophone today (Skype, Facetime, et al) differs radically from how engineers and futurists originally envisioned and implemented it. Read about AT&T’s historic videophone failure(s) that set the stage for today’s video … Continue reading →

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Time to Change the ‘Save’ Paradigm

Posted on 18 April 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

In this Huffington Post column, I explore how the cloud is changing how we save and backup our digital files – but how Microsoft Office and other document creation programs don’t recognize how we might want to save our stuff … Continue reading →

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How an LED Light Bulb is Like a Smartphone

Posted on 18 April 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

IMHO, I believe the LED light bulb is a tabula rasa, a blank slate that will prove to be the next major developmental platform now that the smartphone seems to be reaching its tech innovation limits. Read why in my DVICE column … Continue reading →

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How the Digital Divide Fuels the Income Divide

Posted on 19 March 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

There has been a great deal of political sturm und drang in political circles about the yawning income inequality gap, which is now the highest its been in the U.S. since 1928.  But three disparate events got me thinking about one possible cause … Continue reading →

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Will Cell Phones Prove as Cancerous as Cigarettes?

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

My latest bloviation for the Huffington Post explores the potential for cell phones to one day prove to be as cancer-causing as cigarettes have proven to be.

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The First Cellphone Went on Sale 30 Years Ago for $4,000

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

Possibly the most read story I’ve ever written – a commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the first handheld cell phone (the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X) going on sale to the public – from Mashable.com.  

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Opinion: Why We Really Don’t Need More Cell Spectrum

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

My buddy Marty Cooper, the father of the cell phone, explains why simply adding more spectrum isn’t the answer to crowded cellular super highways in this DVICE.com column.  

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Mobile’s End of the Beginning

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

It’s official: mobile devices have taken over the consumer electronics business, ending the first phase of mobile tech’s ubiquitousness. Read how infrastructure technologies form the future of cool mobile advances here.

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The New Smartphone Normal

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

An examination of potential smartphone/mobile futures, which you can read here.

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7 New Smartphone Features That Will Help Define Your Future

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

My first (and hopefully not last) piece for CNN International on what smartphone technologies could become our new mobile normal. Read it here.

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