The death of Senator Bryd at the age of 92, had me thinking about the technical advances he saw in his life time. That the fight to get those advances to the most people was being fought then and continues to be fought today. The battleground may have changed, but the arguments often repeat themselves. Today, the battle is over what is the best way to get broadband to the most people. In the 1930's it was electricity. While 90% of all urban residents had electricity by the 1930's only 10% of rural residence did. Electric companies of that time said it was too expensive to supply electricity to sparsely populated rural areas, that they could not justify the cost. Rural residents who were lucky enough to have electricity paid rates two times as high as those in urban areas. This was at a time when items such as refrigeration, the radio and the telephone, all which depended on electricity were coming into their own. Without electricity, rural areas were falling further and further behind their urban counter part.
The Motorola Droid (X in this case) is once again sticking it to the iPhone. The last time it was Verizon, but now Motorola itself is getting in on the Apple-bashing act. Remember all of those Verizon ads surrounding the launch of the Droid? Well, today Motorola themselves took out a full page ad in the New York Times making
In a press release today, UKOM revealed that nearly two million more Britons are now online when compared to last year with over half of the increase coming from the over-50s. The exact figures were that in May 2009 there were 36.9 million people online, growing to 38.8 million in the same month of 2010. Of this 5% growth, 1
This will hit the top ten lists of technology that failed. Microsoft pulled the plug on the Microsoft KIN. Microsoft will turn focus on another failure in Windows Mobile 7. I personally thought it would have been adopted by the people over at Jitterbug. Maybe it could become the new Medic Alert Bracelet. Dr. C. Everett Coop comes on the air
Hubby, the kids and I are going to be running away for a week in the middle of July. We're leaving hot and steamy St. Louis and headed north to Wisconsin to visit friends and family, and spend a day or two in the Dells. A good old-fashioned American Road Trip. We love our road trips, and in fact usually
Part of my daily job is to be sure that the disabled students on my campus have access to the same resources that any student has access to, regardless of their disability. Most of us think "big" when we think about disabled people; those with mobility issues, blindness, or deafness. In reality, there's a whole host of disabilities, some visible,
I have spent the last 10 months in the developing country of India. You see a combination of 1st and 3rd world lifestyles here. However the most amazing sight is the technology leapfrog you witness. Let me explain. Two years ago I visited here and was amazed at the number of cell phones. A person could be on an ox-driven
This is where the rubber meets the road. The top tech company has a quality/design problem despite it's rigorous testing and Steve Jobs micro-managing. How will the vaunted customer service respond? It's well-known that Apple weeds out posts from it's forum if they are too blunt about a weakness. And it is also widely known that Apple is ranked first
For some time now I’ve been experimenting with different ways of getting Internet-based video to my widescreen LCD HD televisions. Often people think, why not simply hook up a regular desktop computer up to the TV. A desktop computer can be set up to play back virtually any video file type. The problem is, desktop and laptop computers are optimized
Andy McCaskey of SDR News and Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine had a rare honor as we got to interview Steve Wozniak - now Chief Scientist over at Fusion IO - a company that works with NAND memory for high speed / High Capacity storage. There are two parts to the interview. The first one, Jeffrey talks about Fusion IO, Steve's
I talk more about the studio upgrade initiative and hope that you will be inclined to support the podcast. The goals is to raise $10,000.00 in the next 30 days a hundred dollars or more at a time. This is to help finance the planned studio upgrades. Support is completely voluntary details on the Geek News Central Insider page. Congrats
While the world is buzzing about the Soccer World Cup and the vuvuzela, I will be following the OTHER big European sport - cycling. Being a cycling fan in America isn't easy. While the big races are covered live on all of the big Euro TV networks, America has only sporadic coverage on Versus and Universal Sports. Now, since I