Today Apple announced the details of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS release; and it has made me happy. I love my iPhone, and I use it daily as much more than just a simple phone. I use it to communicate: check and write emails, send out tweets, text friends and [...]
The Internet is generally thought of as a tool that is used by organizations to transact business, or by individuals to communicate, research or get entertained. For those of us that are concerned about the sustainability of the Earths resources, and our ability to support billions of people at the [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I was with a CEO last week in downtown Oklahoma City; we were talking about the perceived technology vacuum here in the middle of the country, and about how wrong that perception is. In fact, there is a vibrant and bustling community of developers, designers, and analysts here. Did you [...]
Twitter is teaming up with the Current television/Internet network to offer a feed of the tomorrow nights debate, with live tweets popping up on the bottom of the screen. Tuesday, October 7th, Senators Obama and McCain will hold another debate live on national television, and you can be a part [...]