Technology

Tame Bear on March 15th, 2013

Here’s what happens when an automated robo-call from CVS Pharmacy contacts my Google Voice phone number with voice-to-text translation:    “Yellow This is C. V. S. Pharmacy. Our records indicate that it’s time for Peter, yo Cally. Yeah to refill the prescription with us you call back later today to remove this number from a […]

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Tame Bear on April 19th, 2010

As an avid technology watcher, The Bear tracks a number of trends on the World Wide Web, observing how new services come into common usage and are integrated into our daily lives. One hot rising trend in recent years is “social networking,” exemplified by services such as MySpace, Orkut, LinkedIn, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, and Google […]

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Tame Bear on January 6th, 2010

This is rev 3 of the Tame Bear weblog. If you’re interested, check out what The Bear was writing about in the previous rev 2 blog from 2001 through 2009. It’s still there, and probably will remain for a while. With this latest revision of the Tame Bear weblog, some categories have changed to reflect a […]

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