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Remember the early 90's dialup internet? Back in those days, you were likely using a US Robotics modem. US Robotics was taken over by 3Com in 1997. Now, 12 years later, 3com itself is being bought up by Hewlett Packard (HP). HP announced that they will pay $2.7 Billion in cash for 3com Corporation. This will put HP in the
Remember when you were a kid, and your mother made sure you completely cleaned your plate? Well, some smart people in San Francisco have come up with a way to use table scraps to make electricity. Right now, it's enough electricity to run the water treatment plant there, but if the plan is fully developed and enough scraps are steered
Now that the initial hue and cry over the release of Windows 7 has died down a little, I thought that I might report on how I got on upgrading a Vista machine to Windows 7. Basically, it's a doddle, but is it worth it? Being a (somewhat mature) Masters student, I was able to purchase the upgrade to Windows
Huge thanks to all the listeners that did Podcast Awards reviews. I get on my soap box tonight about hate mail I have received in regards to my State of the Podcast Sphere simply amazing. Lots of tech to talk about tonight. Want your feedback on the videos in the first two articles along with your personal thoughts on the
Finding a good news application was one of the first things I looked for on the Iphone. Fluent News and ZenNews are the two that I have tried, the following chart compares the two
On Saturday I was part of our monthly Tech Podcast Network Round Table and we had the CEO of Connectify in to do a demo of Connectify.me Connectify is pretty amazing, it allows a Windows 7 machine to become a Wifi Hotspot in about 60 seconds. In fact one of our round table participants set it up while the presentation
While I am always advocating the use of GotoMeeting in Lieu of traveling I found a unique use for GotoMeeting while I was on consulting gigs in October. For that month I found myself gone from my office nearly everyday during the month. I found myself having meetings with the RawVoice staff, in addition to my clients while on travel.
I look forward to writing this post each year, but I have to admit some of the data results cannot be expressed properly on this blog. On one hand I want to applaud podcast host that get it, but for a great many others I wish I could simply scream and shake them by the shoulders and say wake the
This headline may sound a bit facetious, but it's actually almost word for word from a friend of mine. He is currently fighting with Paypal to get the money back. Apparently it was used to buy "tokens" for some Facebook application or other. Being the curmudgeon I am, I have never played a game or loaded an app on Facebook.
Great article over on TechCrunch today (by Paul Carr) about how social networking-based reporting may mean well, but actually causes more harm than good. In this case, the incident was the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday, and the social networking site was Twitter. The military and its official spokespeople were informing the press (and by definition, the public) with
Watching the news has always been a necessary evil. It seems filled with tragic and depressing stories. On occasion I have doubted the wisdom in showing what is shown. In an unofficial and unresearched opinion, it seems to me that the more murder suicide stories they show about a man and his family, the more that occur. Sick people are
If you are like me, when you get the *need* for a new geek toy, it seems that's all you can think about in your spare brain cycles. I'm in that boat now. As I posted before, I'm planning on getting the new Droid from Verizon. Well, I thought that my contract had ended last month on the 16th. So
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