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A few years ago remember seeing all those “Joost” commercials pushing their Internet TV application? “Proper TV – Joost” the sophisticated-sounding British spokesman endlessly blurted out towards the end of the ad. Of course, the initial Joost experiment ended badly. The Joost application stopped working December 19, 2008. Literally millions of dollars went down the drain. I remember downloading and
From the beginning of July, a 1 Mbit/s Internet connection will become a universal service in Finland. Simply, this means that anyone who wants an Internet connection must be provided with one at a reasonable price by one of the 26 telecom operators. This makes Finland the first country in the world to make Internet access a basic right and
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.
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
AT&T I hated this company during the days of deregulation by the tricks they played to keep from losing long distance customers to Sprint and MCI, now once again I am beyond words of what I think about this company. I had planned on buying my wife a 3G iPad but as of today I will not buy the 3G
Turned out we had a bad Audio card with my primary recording machine, went back to fire-wire for the audio recording. We announce the Roku winner tonight, but you need to listed to win as a new contest starts immediately. Two week road trip with a pit stop at home after week one. Meet Ups in your neck of the
Simply a Monster show and for good reason pile of content, great audio feedback and a pile of email from the audience. Big announcement has to be pushed to next show, due to us waiting on final approval of what we have to share. We do an iPad data dump tonight and only tonight! Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for