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@sal-mccloskey
Sal McCloskey is a tech blogger in Los Angeles who (sadly) falls into the stereotype associated with nerds. Yes, he's a Star Trek fan and writes about it on Uberly. His glasses are thick and his allergies are thicker. Despite all that, he's (somehow) married to a beautiful woman and has 4 kids. Sal McCloskey contributed articles on consumer technology, social media and online communication, and software and cloud computing to TECHi.
Publication history and recorded editorial activity on TECHi. These counts describe published work, not investment performance or independently verified qualifications.
Selected articles from Sal McCloskey's published portfolio.
Some have attributed the success of President Barack Obama's rise to prominence over early favorite Hillary Clinton in 2008 to the adept way his campaign handled social media. He generated the early buzz through social before the mainstream media and television started realizing he would be able to sneak right past his opponents into prominence. The Republicans and John McCain had a miniscule focus on social media by comparison.
One of the promises of the internet was to make more things available to the people in ways that we never knew before. For the most part, this has come...
As technology continues to make it easier for businesses to market online, there has been a fork in the road when it comes to automation. On one hand,...
Okay, so "ALL" is a bold statement. Perhaps it's better to say that these are the 17 you really need to read if you're considering one. If you're not...
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This piece is from an earlier period. It is not current market analysis.
The good news: Samsung has made a breakthrough that inches us closer to having 5G mobile broadband technology at our fingertips. The bad news: it likely...
Article archive
Earlier published articles and coauthored reporting on TECHi.
The folks at Team BlackSheep put together a "Christmas Special" video with their quadcopter and GoPro camera.
The robot employment scenario has been described and discussed for decades. Ever since the first hints of automation started creeping into industrial…
The notable that could have happened in tech blogging would have been for Facebook's IPO to "pop". We still would have watched closely but there would have...
The biggest IPO in tech history is appearing to be smaller than people thought according to a recent report from Bloomberg. With growth prospects for...
The Social Network portrayed jilted Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin as a victim. His character portrayed by The Amazing Spiderman's Andrew...
Today is SOPA Blackout Day to oppose the bills currently being proposed in Congress, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect-IP Act (PIPA). You may have...
Social news aggregator Reddit.com took the lead and announced that they were "going black" on January 18th to protest SOPA and PIPA. Despite backpedaling...
Have you ever seen the movie Minority Report? If you haven’t, all you need to know is that it’s about a special police unit that’s able to predict crimes, and is therefore able to arrest criminals before they actually commit those crimes. We don’t have anything close to the t
Tidal has been plagued by an endless stream of controversy and criticism since it first launched, and things are going so poorly for the music streaming service that Jay Z thinks he got screwed out of $56 million when he acquired it, and is now trying to sue the company that sold it to him, acc
Autonomous cars are the future of the automotive industry, but unfortunately for traditional automakers, it’s the technology industry that’s leading the charge in this area, meaning that these automakers must rely on companies like Apple and Google for their self-driving technology. Not
Your email address is basically the online ID that allows you to create accounts on various apps and websites, and even though many of them allow you to create an account using Facebook, you still need an email address to create a Facebook account, so it’s not a replacement for
Thousands of engineers from colleges and high schools from across the world gathered at Texas A&M University in College Station on Saturday to compete for a chance to test their pod designs on Elon Musk’s own Hyperloop test track later this year. MIT’s team was awarded the top prize,
The fate of Yahoo’s employees is being determined by where they are on the new kill list that CEO Marissa Mayer has written up, though I’m sure many of them wouldn’t mind getting fired at this point. The list is the basis for the company’s current restructuring efforts, and i
Legacy archive
141 articles from Sal McCloskey's earlier editorial era on TECHi. These remain available at their original URLs but aren't part of the current beat.
Some have attributed the success of President Barack Obama's rise to prominence over early favorite Hillary Clinton in 2008 to the adept way his campaign handled social media. He generated the early buzz through social before the mainstream media and television started realizing he would be able to sneak right past his opponents into prominence. The Republicans and John McCain had a miniscule focus on social media by comparison.
One of the promises of the internet was to make more things available to the people in ways that we never knew before. For the most part, this has come...
Since the dawn of eCommerce, there have been companies that have made it their business to generate leads to be purchased by other companies. It was a...
As technology continues to make it easier for businesses to market online, there has been a fork in the road when it comes to automation. On one hand,...
In the world of marketing, pay-per-click advertising has been strong for a decade. Those who advertise on the search engines have found tremendous...
In The Dark Knight Rises and throughout the trilogy, we never hear of Dick Grayson, AKA Robin. Sure, Blake is insinuated as being a Robinesque character,...
It's often easy to lump in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon into the same pot. After all, they're all big tech companies that focus on...
Okay, so "ALL" is a bold statement. Perhaps it's better to say that these are the 17 you really need to read if you're considering one. If you're not...
There isn't much time left. In April of next year, Microsoft will end support for Windows XP, the best operating system of its time. In Asia, the OS still...
There have been many complaints about Christian Bale's use of "gruffy Batman voice" throughout the most recent Batman trilogy, but that's exactly what...
With huge opening numbers, Grand Theft Auto V has launched towards resounding success. This isn't just another chapter in a popular video game series....
Until a while back, the idea of a software that would be able to build websites without the use of pragramming language was still something of the future...