+ Reboot your WiFi router. It’s infected.\u00a0Turn it off, wait 30 seconds, then turn it on. That should should get rid of the virus.<\/p>\n
+ Turn your WiFi router off completely if you leave your house for a holiday. Summer is thunderstorm time. Lightning strikes can destroy your router. Unplug your phone line if on DSL. Lightning creeps up phone lines.<\/p>\n
+ My Apple Watch lets me know who’s calling when I’m on the tennis court. Hence I don’t have to rush over to courtside and find my iPhone — only to find that it’s some moron trying to sell me a cure for my bad back or my bad knees. These spam calls are getting creative.<\/p>\n
My Apple Watch is useless for measuring my exercise. But I can read messages and emails.<\/p>\n
+ New studies show vitamin supplements are useless. The worst is Prevagen, the jellyfish pill that’s totally useless, but selling like crazy because of its irritating TV ads.<\/p>\n
Fruitless exercise?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I spent 15 minutes every day unsubscribing. Does it do me any good? Who knows.<\/p>\n Sometimes I think if I unsubscribe I’m only confirming that I exist. And hence alive.<\/p>\n Online retail sales still account for 12%\u00a0 of retail<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The devastation they’re bringing to retail stores is clearly evident in New York City. Just drive up or down one of the avenues and eye all the retail stores for rent. Sears is shuttering 72 of its dreary stores.<\/p>\n Some dead shops are being converted into restaurants. Some into walk-in health care. Some will just stay vacant for years.<\/p>\n Famed Mary Meeker just published her\u00a0TECH STATE OF THE UNION: Everything happening on the internet in 2018.\u00a0<\/em>She has 294 slides in her deck. Here are some of\u00a0her conclusions:<\/p>\n 1. The Internet is gaining more users, but growth is slowing. 8. Look at the growth in online subscription services:<\/p>\n 9. It’s getting cheaper to store digital stuff. I suspect this is technology’s fastest drop in prices of any of its stuff. It’s driving the growth of the\u00a0cloud and iPhones, laptops, etc.<\/p>\n 10. How the world has changed:<\/p>\n 11. The Internet has made it easier for freelancers to find work. Those people are seeing faster growth than conventional 9-5 jobs. 16. There’s still plenty of room for Internet entrepreneurs. Look at Slack’s growth:<\/p>\n Now ask yourself where should I have the bulk of my investments?<\/p>\n Clearly NFLX, AMZN, GOOGL, BABA, MSFT, ADBE, SQ, CRM and NVDA.<\/p>\n You can view all Mary Meeker’s slides here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Photographed off CNBC.<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This is Trump\u2019s best ever tweet showing his racial insensitivity and his gigantic ego.<\/p>\n Savor and marvel. Remember he\u2019s our president.<\/p>\n More wonderful cartoons<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n2. People are spending more time every day on it.
\n3. WiFi is exploding. She figures 450 million WiFi networks.
\n4. Amazon Echo’s installed base is hockey-stickying (i.e. growth going through the roof).
\n5. Amazon leads in R&D. Next is Google, Intel, Apple and Microsoft.
\n6. USPS leads in parcel delivery, followed by UPS and FedEx.
\n7. This chart blew me away:<\/p>\n![\"Amazon1\"](\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Amazon1.jpg\")
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\n12. There are now more than two million apps on the Apple store.
\n13. The cloud is getting cheaper each year, not just because of dropping storage prices.
\n14. China is huge and exploding:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n