We all have ideas. Sometimes they’re good. Sometimes they’re bad. And sometimes we think they’re good even if they suck. Faced with the simple problems we all encounter each day, its common to rhetorically state how “it would be nice if ____” (fill in the blank). The only problem with these spontaneous ideas is our [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
Will the U.S. Finally Get Decent Broadband Speeds?
February 16th, 2010
According to an FCC statement released today [pdf], more than 100 million Americans should have access to an at least 100Mbps broadband Internet connection by 2020. Sounds great, right? We’ll all be streaming high definition video over the Internet with enough bandwidth to spare for any social networking or cloud computing needs that may arise within [...]
More Free Internet Access!
November 10th, 2009
Remember the announcement that Google is offering free in-flight broadband Internet access on Virgin flights throughout the holiday season? Well, Google just sweetened the deal. During the same period (Nov 10 – Jan 15), Google is sponsoring free WiFi at a slew of airports across the country. Click the “continue reading” link for the full [...]
Posted in Google, Internet 
Tags: free internet, free WiFi, Google, in-flight broadband, Internet 
No Comments »Want to seem really smart? Get a WikiReader.
October 13th, 2009
As a kid, I can remember paging through the volumes of my school’s encyclopedia in amazement that so much information could be so compactly compiled. Then I got my first CD-ROM drive, blazing fast with a 2X read speed, which came bundled with an edition of Compton’s encyclopedia. The disk included huge numbers of pictures, sound clips, [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Gadgets Tags: encyclopedia, Internet, Wikipedia, WikiReader No Comments »The Wild Blue Yonder of In-Flight Internet
October 8th, 2009
Where would we be without Internet access? For some, being offline for more than a few minutes can cause mild panic and withdraw symptoms. Fortunately, as Internet service providers deploy increasing amounts of wireless infrastructure, such as 4G wireless and WiMAX networks, the thirst for broadband can easily be quenched for those willing to pay for it.
While ground [...]
Posted in Internet, Technology Tags: 4G, Aircell, airplane, Gogo, in-flight broadband, Internet, WiFi, WiMAX 3 Comments »Google on web browsers…
October 6th, 2009
Yeah, so it appears that the folks over at Google recently came to the realization that you can’t get people to use a new web browser (i.e Google Chrome) if they don’t even know what a web browser is. So to mitigate this, they’ve put together a very brief cartoon…I mean educational visual aid…describing what [...]
The State of the Quadruple Play
September 29th, 2009
Staying connected is about to become even easier. In a world of wireless, land line, and video phones, the Internet, and hundreds of television channels and their associated content, it’s easy to understand why, as our lives become more dependent on these services, consumers will demand increased and more efficient access to them. 3G enabled [...]
Posted in Content Delivery, Internet, Technology Tags: AT&T, comcast, fios, Internet, ISP, online, quadruple play, triple play, Verizon, wireless, wireless broadband 2 Comments »What do you see in the cloud?
September 20th, 2009
An exciting technological trend is emerging that will undoubtedly change the way we interact with computers, software, and each other. Termed “cloud computing“, which implies basing software and hardware computing requirements remotely on the Internet, and showing increased acceptance and utilization within both consumer and business environments, it stands to completely alter how we create, [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Emerging Technology, Google, Internet, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Storage, Technology Tags: Cloud Computing, Google, Google Apps, Internet, Microsoft, Office Live, online 2 Comments »Google buys reCAPTCHA
September 17th, 2009
Spam stinks. But books are good. That’s the idea behind reCAPTCHA, an anti-spam tool that, in addition to preventing the Internet from being overloaded with inappropriate content, is helping accurately digitize vast quantities of printed media. In fact, the technology is so integral to Google’s Books project, Google announced that it is acquiring the small [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Google, Internet, Technology, eBooks Tags: CAPTCHA, eBook, Internet, reCAPTCHA, security, spam No Comments »Sony Ditches Internet Explorer
September 1st, 2009
In what can only be described as a harsh reality check for Microsoft, Sony today made public its plans to ship all of its Vaio laptops with the Google Chrome web browser pre-installed instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer has enjoyed unrivaled ubiquity since the demise of Netscape Navigator years ago and it being the [...]
