How smart devices can make you dumb

June 8, 2012
I was at the recent PlanetPTC Live event in Orlando Florida. I wanted to tweet about "Creo" -- the company's new suite of engineering software apps. The spell-check override on my Android phone changed the spelling to "Creole" and I did not notice before ...

I was at the recent PlanetPTC Live event in Orlando Florida. I wanted to tweet about "Creo" -- the company's new suite of engineering software apps. The spell-check override on my Android phone changed the spelling to "Creole" and I did not notice before sending out the tweet. How embarrassing! :(

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