About GottaBeMobile
GottaBeMobile.com is a news and review website that covers the fast paced and constantly changing mobile technology sector. Within that constantly evolving and face paced world, GBM covers a range of spaces and technologies including phones, Tablet PCs, ultra-portable computers, software, natural human interfaces, accessories, wireless services and other solutions that appeal to the mobile user.
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The People Behind GottaBeMobile
K. T. Bradford
K. T. wrangles reviews for GBM to ensure that everyone from the uber-knowledgable tech enthusiast to the reluctant former Luddite knows which gadget is best for their needs. Her posts and reviews can also be found on Notebooks.com.
An early love and appreciation for netbooks led her to a job at LAPTOP Magazine where she was the News Editor for two and a half years. There she reviewed and covered all mobile tech and specialized in netbooks, ultraportables and eReaders. She happily covers everything from smartphones to tiny, finger-sized computers here at GottaBeMobile.
A long time Windows Mobile fan going all the way back to the HP Jornada, K. T. jumped ship for Android the day the first Motorola Droid came out. Most of her computers are PCs, but she appreciates Mac ad OS X. For the past few years she’s been building a passion for Linux, favoring Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
She owns (and still loves) the HTC Thunderbolt, Nook Tablet, Samsung R780 17-inch laptop and a Samsung NC10 netbook running both Windows XP and Linux Mint.
Follow K. T. on Twitter @KTBradford, Google+ and Tumblr.
Warner Crocker
As the News and Content Editor for GottaBeMobile.com, Warner scours the mobile pc space for news and applicable content, and is tasked for ensuring that GBM is fresh, accurate and timely in its daily reporting of news. In addition, Warner produces InkShow video reviews and podcasts for GBM.
Warner is a Tablet PC enthusiast, a theatre producer, director, and playwright, who combines his love of Tablet PCs with his work in the live theatre. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of Wayside Theatre in Middletown, VA, now in his 8th season there. He first became involved with Tablet PCs in 2003 and became an active contributor on Tablet PC Buzz, where he has also served as a News Editor. In 2004 he started blogging on Life On the Wicked Stage on MSN Spaces and later moved that part of his life to TypePad with Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 2 where he ruminates, postulates, rants and raves about Tablet PCs, computing and the Internet in general, as well as his life at Wayside Theatre, and the occasional emu sighting. Prior to his life in Middletown and his life with Tablet PCs he spent 20 years in Chicago working in the professional theatre, producing and directing plays for numerous theatres there including The Absolute Theatre Company and Plan B Productions, both of which he founded. His productions have been awarded numerous awards including many Golden Chiquitas. (Dont ask.) He has also written and directed plays in Russia for the Musical Theatres of Omsk and Yekaterinburg.
In 2005 he was recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Tablet PCs, an honor that he is still thrilled to have received and has continued to receive each year since.
Since first picking up a Tablet PC, Warner has been promoting and evangelizing the platform every chance he gets believing completely that Tablet PCs put the personal back into personal computing. Unlike many in the Tablet PC community, Warner doesnt come from a programming, development, or computing background, and believes his out there in the real world spin on Tablet PCs and the computing industry in general offers a somewhat unique, and sometimes twisted perspective.
He is married to the wonderfully talented actress and teacher, Thomasin Savaiano and together they are responsible for a rather large and eclectic family of theatre folk at Wayside Theatre.
You can contact Warner at warner@GottaBeMobile.com and visit him at his personal blog.
Xavier Lanier
Xavier is responsible for managing the site. He contributes to daily news posts, reviews, and videos. He also publishes Notebooks.com, a site that covers mobile computers of all shapes and sizes.
Xavier has been addicted to gadgets for as long as he can remember, starting with audio equipment at the age of four. He uses too many gadgets and computers to list, but his current favorites are his 11″ and 13″ MacBook Airs, 13″ MacBook Pro, and Nikon D7000. He carries an Droid Bionic, iPhone 4 and iPad 2 almost everywhere he goes. He sleeps next to an HP TouchSmart PC.
He earned a B.S. from Cal Poly and has worked for and served various technology companies, including Salesforce.com, Sun Microsystems and Verisign. He is a professional digital photographer and has shown in several galleries and exhibits.
He received his first Microsoft MVP Award in 2010.
You can contact Xavier at xavier@notebooks.com and follow him on Twitter @xavierlanier.
Matt Faulkner
Matt lives and breathes gadgets and mobile computing. He helps keeps the lights on here at GottaBeMobile, managing our servers and content management system.
Matt is not new at all to the tablet PC arena. He has been involved in other community sites for quite a while now. Matt supports a number of Tablet PC’s in his job as a GIS Specialist at an environmental engineering company in Indiana. He has a BA in GIS, plus background working with his father’s business setting up LAN and WAN systems for small businesses. He’s been interested in Tablet PC’s and the inking experience since they first came out, and purchased his first personal tablet when the M4 came out because it had a graphics card with memory capable of being used in his daily work. Matt was awarded Microsoft’s MVP for Tablet PC award in July 2007 and 2008.
You can contact Matt at matt@GottaBeMobile.com.
Mark “Sumocat” Sumimoto
Mark Sumimoto, a.k.a. Sumocat (sumocat@notebooks.com), has been a Tablet PC enthusiast since 2004. He started making a name for himself with Sumocat’s Scribbles, a pioneering ink blog. Growing from a mobile blogging experiment during a trip to Japan, Scribbles features entries that were handwritten on Tablet PCs, complemented by searchable text and hyperlinks right in the ink images (“Links in Ink”) courtesy of his own Build 52 web tool. His incessant support of the Tablet PC led to his Microsoft MVP award in 2008, which was re-awarded in 2009 and 2010, and a spot on the blogging team at GottaBeMobile.
His tablet arsenal started with a first-generation slate, the Electrovaya Scribbler SC-500. The 10″ slate served him well for years, but when it was time to upgrade, he decided to upsize to a 14″ Toshiba Satellite R25, followed by his current Toshiba Tecra M7 of the same size, and now a 13.3″ Fujitsu Lifebook T900. He also carries an iPhone and takes control of his media PC with pen input on a Wacom Graphire Wireless tablet.
Sumocat’s natural tendency is to think about what else a device can do, leading to novel ways of doing thing, such as ink blogging and experiments pushing the limits of ritePen (which in turn led the ritePen team to expand those limits). Small wonder he’s attracted to alternate forms of input like pen and touch. He lives and works in the Northern Virginia DC Metro area, splitting time between working for The Journal of Nuclear Medicine and his wife and three cats.
Adam Mills
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Adam has both a passion for writing and for technology and brings his passion for both to the team at GottaBeMobile. His fascination with smartphones began in college when he traded in his trusty Motorola RAZR for a BlackBerry 7130c.
Since then, if he hasn’t been using phones, he’s been talking about them online. He joins the GBM staff after a stint as an editor and writer for The Next Web.
He currently sports an iPhone 3GS, Motorola Droid 2 and an iPad 2 and is extremely excited about Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8. He holds a B.A. from San Diego State University and lives in San Francisco.
You can contact Adam at adam@notebooks.com and follow him on Twitter @admillios.
Josh Smith
Josh is technology enthusiast who enjoys pushing new gadgets to their limits and helping the average user make informed choices about technology. Josh is also the Editor at Notebooks.com. He has been tearing apart and trying to explain technology since digging into the family computer at an early age. Over the years Josh has used Windows, Linux and OS X and remains relatively platform agnostic. On the hardware side Josh has owned and outlived numerous Palm, Windows Mobile and Windows tablet devices over the years.
Josh teaches business technology courses at Bluffton University and lives in Northwest Ohio. Josh earned his BS in Business at Bluffton University with an MIS concentration and a CS minor. He also has an MBA from Bluffton University.
Josh has had technology and personal finance articles appear on WalletPop and MSNBC as well as garnering links from CNN and other major publications as well as giving interviews on radio stations across the country regarding technology, consumer electronics and personal finance.
His phone is a ThunderBolt and his tablet is an iPad 2. He owns a MacBook Air and an HP dv6 on the notebook side, but can usually be found with a new notebook to review for Notebooks.com.
Follow Josh on Twitter @Josh_Smith or email him Josh@notebooks.com.
Kevin Purcell
Kevin’s love of all things tech began as boy when his father brought home the family’s first computer, an Interact that hooked up to a black and white TV, was an all-in-one case and loaded a Space Invaders clone via tape drive. He once played that game for 8 straight hours at the age of 11. Since that time he’s been tinkering with computers.
He was given his first computer after college, an 8086 PC, one of Compaq’s first systems. It was old then but felt like a he had been given a passport to a whole new world.
A few years ago he discovered GottaBeMobile after buying a Samsung Q1 Ultra-mobile PC and got hooked on the tablet PC. Before that he adopted PDAs when you were on the cutting edge with a Palm and transitioned to Windows CE with the HP Jornada and Compaq iPaqs. He jumped on the smartphone train with the Palm Treo 600 and later a 700w.
Kevin is a minister by day with degrees in Religion and Philosophy and Communications. He earned a Doctor of Ministry writing his dissertation on the use of multimedia in religious communications. He began writing about tech for a monthly magazine focused on using computers in church. He joined the GottaBeMobile team early in 2010.
You can contact Kevin at kevin@notebooks.com or on Twitter @kapurcell and on Google Plus
Chris Leckness
Chris Leckness is a smartphone addict that started out covering Pocket PC at the site he founded, Aximsite. His dedication to small screens and community had him creating websites like a serial webmaster. He created Aximsite, iPaqHQ, PSPsite, DellDJsite, Mobilitysite, GotZune, and others. Eventually, as a hobbyist webmaster, he consolidated all the tech communities he created into Mobilitysite. In March 2010, he had to let that go as well and turned the reigns over to another owner. Almost a year later, Chris decided to join GBM to write with some awesome guys that he’s known for years.
In 2005 he was recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for work in the Windows Mobile and Pocket PC world. His title changed several times over the years. He went Pocket PC to Windows Mobile then a brief move over to Zune and back to Windows Mobile until it changed to Windows Phone. He was honored with the Microsoft MVP Award every year since 2005 until he voluntarily left in the November 2010.
Chris works for AT&T as an electronics technician, but has no dealings with the mobility side of the house. He wants to get more involved on that side, but has yet to make that move. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with his wife of 20 years and his two kids, an 18 year old daughter and 9 year old son.
You can contact Chris at Chris@notebooks.com. You can also follow Chris on his personal blog, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, or Google+.
Rob Bushway, Founder
As the the founder of GottaBeMobile.com, Rob built the site from scratch into a vibrant tech community. He worked tirelessly to assemble the GottaBeMobile team, build relationships with vendors and produce some great content. Rob is no longer actively producing content for GottaBeMobile, but still lends a helping hand by sharing his insight and knowledge with the GBM staff and community from time to time.
Rob has been active in the Tablet PC space since December 2002, joining the wildly popular TabletPCBuzz.com when there were only a couple of hundred members. His natural thirst for news and knowledge, combined with strong technical skills has made him a very respected and trusted news source, as well as a general contributor to the online community.
In April of 2004, Rob was given the MVP award for Tablet PC for his volunteer work on TabletPCBuzz.com, and has been annually reawarded for his continuing work in the Tablet PC community in general. In 2004, Rob was awarded the Agilix AllStar designation from for his contributions to the GoBinder and PlanPlus tablet PC applications. He was also awarded the TabletPCBuzz.com 2004 Member of the Year award by the members of TabletPCBuzz.com for his contributions to the community.
Prior to launching GottaBeMobile.com, He ran his own successful blog, robbushway.blogspot.com, where he concentrated on tablet pc news, reviews of hardware and software, and editorials. In addition, he is also responsible for TabletBible.com – a website dedicated to eBooks and bibles that are specially formatted to use on Tablet PC’s using OneNote and GoBinder file formats.
Through his company, Zoe Technologies (www.zoeinc.com), he has designed several award winning and best of show websites.
Rob and his wife, Kathi, have been married for 15 years. They have four children: Dax, Maggie, Anna Kathryn, and Zoe. They home school their children (and yes — tablet PCs are an integral part of their school environment) and enjoy that calling. When not working and spending time with his family, Rob enjoys mountain biking, exercising, church activities and writing. Rob currently resides in Colorado Springs, Co.
You can visit him on his personal blog at RobBushway.com and follow him on Twitter @RobBushway
