Buried in the $800 billion economic stimulus package that President-elect Obama is pushing is a serious incentive package for our US communications companies to improve bandwidth speeds. In an article written by Kenneth Corbin, the background is set..."The broadband stimulus proposals come amid growing concern that the United States is [...]
I read an article the other day that talked about the concept of Innovation Economics. The description being the conscious practice of investing in innovation as a method for driving economic prosperity. I love how the author stated clearly that this is the one way that the US can change [...]
I heard a speaker today vehemently making a point about how much the printing press impacted us as human beings because it made knowledge available to the common man. Although agree, it pales in comparison with what the Internet is doing for humanity. I was frankly a bit surprised that [...]
This is no secret, but, I am a huge advocate of the Cloud technology ecosystem. I use about as many applications in the cloud as I can find. If there is a good, free, or low-cost alternative to a bulky and costly application; I'm there. I believe that fundamentally, this [...]
Here is a quote I have been preaching in speeches these days, "Content is the new democracy and we the people are insuring that our our voices are heard." This wisdom is from Brian Solis who is an expert on social media. It is important for all of us to [...]
Last week Google announced that they were pulling one of their latest services off the Web. Google Lively was their first attempt to play in the virtual world space. The concept seemed to me to be a poor attempt to let users create their own rooms where they could hold [...]
Cloud-based File Storage Last weekend on Twitter, I saw a few tweets where a friend had lost a file, and try as she might, she could not find it on her machine, it was simply gone. There were lots of replies to her about the benefits of Apple's Time Capsule [...]
We hear about the 'Cloud' at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways. The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and more; but their ideas are closer than they would like [...]
At a developers conference last week, Microsoft rolled out a mind bending set of new ideas (products?) that leverage the concept of cloud computing. This makes a lot of sense because as companies figure out that they can rent software, storage and servers from big name providers like IBM, Amazon, [...]
Our mobile phones are quickly replacing the laptop as the screen of choice for the digerati. More and more can be accomplished on the mobile phone platform that we used to reserve for the laptop with a high-speed connection to the Internet. Today our mobile phones are coming equipped with [...]