If you hang out on Twitter, follow some of the manufacturing blogs, or just read the business section of the papers, you may have noticed that suddenly manufacturing is a hot topic. From being the old-economy, dirty, boring subject nobody wanted to pay attention to because everything virtual, online, mobile or i-ified was more fun, and manufacturing was dying anyway, it's now gone to being the hero that's dragging the country (slowly, painfully, but still. . . ) out of recession. 

I posted yesterday over on The Big Yellow Book about the fancy new smartphone that the Secret Service and the NSA have made President Obama use instead of his crackberry...I mean, Blackberry.

It is a pretty fantastic device, with all sorts of security features...

I posted yesterday over on The Big Yellow Book about the fancy new smartphone that the Secret Service and the NSA have made President Obama use instead of his crackberry...I mean, Blackberry.

It is a pretty fantastic device, with all sorts of security features...