Are Newspapers Obsolete? Google Newspass is a new platform that is expected to materialize later this year. Newspass will be a news aggregate for news publishers to monetize their online news publications. Google will be that news infrastructure highway that charges the fee. Features may be similar to Facebook, allowing universal access in a global arena. […]

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Broadband And Mobile Subscriptions Keep Growing Investment in telecommunications is the key to broadband growth. Telecommunications investment increased 9% from 2005 to 2007. Investment grew over the past four years, compared to the decline of investment in years past. Despite the growth in 2007, the current global economic downturn may create a dampening effect on […]

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In 2014, Internet Four Times Larger Than 2009 According to Cisco, in the year of 2014, the internet will become four times larger than it was in 2009. Where is internet traffic growing the fastest? Traffic is growing fastest in Latin America. Traffic in Latin America will grow 51% between 2009 and 2014. The Middle […]

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Urgent: Project 25 Certified, But Still Not Working May 27, 2010 – “Today the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation held a hearing to review the status of interoperability for public safety communications systems that enable first responders from multiple agencies and jurisdictions to communicate. Specifically, the hearing discussed the status […]

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Here Are Your Webby Winners NEWS 1. Webby Award Winner: The New York Times 2. People’s Voice Winner: BBC News SOCIAL NETWORKING 1. Webby Award Winner: Twitter 2. People’s Voice Winner: Twitter MAGAZINE 1. Webby Award Winner: NewYorker.com 2. People’s Voice Winner: National Geographic RADIO/PODCASTS 1. Webby Award Winner: TED.com 2. People’s Voice Winner: NPR TELEVISION […]

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The Development Of Global Navigation Who really invented GPS? As with most inventions, there is usually a race to receive the credit, and time later unravels a collection of contributors. The invention of the GPS was no exception to this rule. The technology is similar to radio systems that were developed in the 1940’s. In […]

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Are you trying to open up an .asx file stream, and a dialogue box pops up asking you to save the file to your computer? It’ll say that it can’t open in the default program and the file may be corrupted or that it has an incorrect file type. This should be resolved by setting Windows Media as […]

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Regenerative Shock Absorber Recovers Energy If you’re one of those drivers that complains every time you hit a nasty pothole, there could be some good news from that bumpy experience. I’m pickin’ up good vibrations… Okay, we’re not talkin’ the Beach Boys here! We’re talking about new, exciting research involving regenerative shock technology. Researchers from […]

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EchoLink Has Gone Wi-Fi EchoLink on iPhone or iPod Touch? Believe it! If you are a validated EchoLink user you can use this edition of the program. It is available at the App Store, free of  charge of course. If you are not already validated, you can download and install the Windows version on a […]

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Endeavour Is The Next Mission For ISS The 32nd flight to the ISS is scheduled for target on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. This flight will use Space Shuttle Endeavour. The launch time is expected to be at 4:39 Eastern Stardard Time. STS-130 DETAILS 1. Shuttle: Endeavour 2. Launch Target: Feb. 7, 2010, 4:39 a.m. EST […]

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