Have trouble staying on your diet? A new service called MyFoodPhone lets you send in images of your food selections to see if they meet your diet and nutritional needs. We’re guessing the No. 2 at McDonalds’ is an automatic no go. While this is a good idea to help keep you on task, it’s easy to beat (just eat and don’t phone in your meal.) We’ve got a better plan. Most phones have some sort of GPS capability. Match the person’s location to a fast food place and the claxons sound. Yeah, yeah, the big three fast food joints serve salads, but who goes there for the salad?
Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.