Warning ISPs are Moving Towards a Metered Internet

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What if you paid for your Internet access as if it were a utility bill?
This is what Mr. Randall Stephenson, AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Officer has confirmed. Stephenson made this comment during his keynote webcast at the Morgan Stanley Conference this past Tuesday.
For the industry, we’ll progressively move towards more of what I call variable pricing, [...]

How a National Broadband Plan Will Be The Next Public Works

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The National Broadband Plan has been a project that the Federal Communications Commission has been charged with since early 2009. The plan is designed to address the lack of broadband availability not only throughout the United States but in underserved and economically depressed areas. The full report will be presented to Congress on March 17th. Fortunately, over [...]

How Does the United States Move Beyond Digital Illiteracy?

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009 has targeted broadband as an instrument to help in revitalizing our economy. The investment in this information infrastructure will not only help to create jobs but assist in developing new technologies, applications and services. These initiatives are part of the — “Transforming Our Economy With Science And Technology” heading. The recovery bill states [...]

Netflix Will Not be Streaming 1080p This Year

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The prices of HDTV’s has fallen significantly over the past few years. So much so that mainstream shoppers have been purchasing HDTV’s in record numbers. Due to the rapid adoption of High Definition Television’s and the death of analog HD broadcasting — media companies like Netflix are pumping out (digital) HD content. Today, 1080p is the most sought [...]

Using Google Earth to Take a Walk on Mars

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Google Earth is a virtual globe application. This is a program that can be used to view the Earth’s surface — in both 2D and 3D. You can search by coordinates, addresses or just simply browse Earth. In addition to being able, to see the surface of the Earth — you can now experience global changes, [...]

A Conversation with Andrew Savikas of O’Reilly Media

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Who is not familiar with O’Reilly Media? If you have been in the IT space for any amount of time – you have read at least three O’Reilly books. My three favorite are still – 1. DNS and BIND, 2. Essential SNMP and 3. Apache Cookbook. Over the past few months I have grown to really [...]

Social Integration with the Business Development Institute

I had a wonderful discussion with Richard Rumsey, VP for Advancement, from the Lebanese American University. Like many companies and universities, LAU is attempting to build a successful social media campaign. Unfortunately, as many of us have already experienced – it is not an effortless process. The social media space, albeit far reaching, is still young and littered with more questions than answers. I carefully listened to Rumsey and he has a clear objective He wants to leverage social media so LAU can empower and nurture its students into becoming good digital citizens. Rumsey continues to explain, “so that they can make a powerful impact locally and internationally.”

LATISM DC A Resounding Success

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Latino’s In Social Media (LATISM) is a New York born initiative. The initiative was born to foster the democratization of information within the Hispanic Social Media community. These Latino’s are influencer’s in the Social Media space. They are software developers, entrepreneur’s, social success coaches, social media specialists and published author’s. It is clear that LATISM [...]

A Vision Of The Future Of Magazines

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I am in the camp – that the future of broad pages, magazines and books is in the digital format. This is self-evident today more than ever. Print is looking at a significant battle. It is being attacked from all sides – citizen journalists, blogs, video’s and the digital format. You can say it’s the makings of the [...]

Using Your Credit Card As A Social Network

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I was reading this article on Philip Kaplan in the NYT. Now there is now doubt that Kaplan is an entrepreneur and seems to understand what it takes to make company’s successful. He has a long resume which includes: founder at Flirt140, founder at Fast140, adviser at SuperFan and now co-founder at Blippy. Directly from the web site, “Blippy is [...]

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