I had a beer in one hand and a burger in the other, and I wasn’t really looking to discuss office management policies. A woman standing nearby at a summer barbeque was going on about employees engaging in personal activities…

With a headline like this you’d think I had a serious hate-on for this popular console, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. But there’s no denying it’s missing some key features. See if you agree, or feel free to challenge me on them.

As Marc so recently said, it’s been a strange (and wonderful) trip here at sync since we launched 1 year ago. So it’s sad that recent events are forcing a change on how we do business…

Like it or not, cell phones at work have become a fact of life. But just because your little portable pal is ringing, doesn’t mean you need to answer.

A recent poll indicates that office workers have plenty of gripes, and most of them are about the behaviour of their co-workers. The list has plenty of tech complaints, but the biggest annoyance is also one of the oldest.

Cars, clothing, books and computers. They’re all cheaper south of the border. Canadians have always accepted that fact because our dollar was worth so much less than the American greenback. But now it’s worth the same or more. Why haven’t prices come down?

One Laptop Per Child is a fantastic program. Too bad the promise of empowerment and freedom is already being subjected to restrictions.

It’s not easy being a video game critic. OK — so I’m not expecting to hear any violins — but you’d be surprised how many games out of the hundreds released each year aren’t even worthy beer coasters.

I love gadgets. I can’t help it. But lately my obsession with high tech devices has started to feel like a guilty pleasure. It’s getting harder to ignore the fact that my passion is killing the planet.

People make mistakes. To err is human, right? Most of the technology that we interact with was built with this concept in mind. Light switches go on and off, cars have accelerators and brake pedals, computers have the indispensible ‘undo’ command. So why is it that elevators require us to live with our first choice?