Outbox’s intriguing new service collects your physical mail, then opens, scans, and delivers it via app or browser.

With a fleet of white Prius’ sporting giant, red plastic flags, Outbox’s “unpostman” will visit your home three times a week to collect your letters, bills, magazines and advertisements that had deposited there by official postal workers; they then get delivered to a warehouse where they are opened and photographed, and the resulting digital files are sent electronically to the recipient through the Outbox website or iPad or iPhone apps.

New touchscreen Android devices designed exclusively for kids with bright colors, rugged cases and no slip grip are overtaking the kiddy phablets market with new releases like Toys R Us’ Tabeo.

Tablets are certainly the hot-ticket item, with Apple projecting over 62 million in iPad sales this last year. But while some parents are only too happy to share their $500-plus tablets with the kids (or even buy the kiddos iPads of their own), some are opting instead to get a tablet designed specifically for their wee ones’ tiny fingers and eager minds.

With the growing popularity of tablets, one wonders if the familiar site of someone unfolding a laptop and perfectly positioning it upon a Starbucks table will soon be a thing of the past. Tablets are increasingly outselling laptops and the proof is apparent everywhere.

YAY images for iPad is a perfect tool for busy and demanding professionals who need quick access to top quality photos for blogs, online publications or business presentations.

There are a multitude of iPad apps for kids, but selecting the right ones for your child isn’t always easy. From games to books, here are our top picks (based on a child’s age and interest). 

The Apple Store has plenty of iPad apps for kids that can keep children busy for hours. While apps are a great way to entertain your kids, they can also be an educational tool. Here are our top five iPad apps for kids. 

• Facebook tops Google in weekly traffic.
• 1 in 5 couples meet online.
• 1 in 5 divorces are blamed  on Facebook.
• If Facebook were a country, it would be the worlds 3rd largest.
• Twitter, Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn are not welcome in china.
• Today kindergarteners learn on iPads NOT chalkboards.
• Many universities have stopped giving out email accounts since everyone uses social media.
• eReaders have surpassed book sales.
• Social gamers will buy $6Bn of e-goods this year; movie theaters will sell only $2.5Bn of physical goods.
• YouTube is the 2^nd largest search engine in the world.
• If Wikipedia were made into a book, it would be 2.25 million pages long and it would take 123 years to read.

Welcome to the social media revolution.

Windows 8, Facebook IPO troubles, mobile advertising challenges, and what a hot lawsuit against a Silicon Valley VC means for women in technology.

Read on to see the stories making headline news on the tech scene this week!

IBM Business Agility (businessagility.com) feature (@IBMBizAgility)

If data security frustrates you, you’re not alone! With mobile device usage and cloud adaptation on the rise, people are accessing more and more data on the fly.  And with so much sensitive information dispersed and accessed across the internet, security has never been a more critical subject. I was quoted on the subject in a recent article title Protecting Data Through BPM, authored on BusinessAgility.com by my friend Pierre DeBois, Founder of Zimana, a consulting company that specializes in digital marketing.

December 15th, 2011 – Business Agility

Feature quote for Business Agility at http://businessagility.com 

If you’re looking for gift ideas for your tech loving friends & family for the 2011 holiday season, the SheBytes gadget guide has got you covered!  In ascending price order, here are our top 10 gift and stocking stuffer ideas:

If you’re wondering how long the iPhone 4S battery lasts; the answer is: not very long.  In fact, iPhone 4S battery life issues have customers complaining…a lot.

We all know that any Apple release; the whole drama, from inception through production and delivery is, well pretty dramatic. No Apple product would get its proper welcome into the world without at least one issue people love to gripe about:

With the iPhone 4S, there’s some serious battery issues!