Jim Jones, right, Associate Professor of Management at University of Nebraska at Omaha

Interview starts at 9:03 and ends at 40:50

"In the classroom, I really do strongly feel that attention is so critical to actual understanding that the more that you can remove the electronic connection and the focus on inputting electronically or--even worse sometimes I think, is passively taking pictures of the screen--the better."

News

Is Amazon working on another phone? https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/29/17627314/amazon-phone-studios-jen-salke-rumor

How wealthy are Jeff Bezos's parents? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/a-hidden-amazon-fortune-bezos-parents-could-be-worth-billions

How Amazon dominates online retail: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/amazon-s-the-biggest-in-online-shopping-but-not-always-the-best

Demise of the Kindle Voyage:

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-kindle-voyage-is-now-discontinued

Tech Tip

Update for Kindle app for iPhone and iPad:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-kindle/id302584613?mt=8

Interview with Jim Jones

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Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.

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