Mobile & Wireless

The Twitter microblogging service has received an absurd quantity of press in the mainstream media lately.

Late Sunday night in Washington DC a Tweet appeared ....

The education crisis is bad and getting worse. The US spends more on education than any other nation, so the problem is not (as commonly portrayed) a funding crisis. The causes for this sorry state of affairs are many, but one major failure is that too many teachers, schools, and districts reject powerful, free technology solutions that are handed to them on a silver platter.

I'm talking about mobile technology, the mobile Web and the Web 2.0.

Boss at this big mobile-phone service provider tells IT pilot fish to go to a cell site and let the exterminator in to spray for bugs. What could go wrong?

Google has scheduled an event commemorating the 5th anniversary of Gmail in Brussels today. Word on the street is that Google will announce ...

A rogue commenter on my "fun blog" posted what appear to be some very nice Macintosh netbook images.  While they are unlikely real, they seem to have gotten many people excited about the prospect of a MacBook Mini.

The new Tesla Model S will have a 17 inch screen and Google Maps. Is there anything else Google' founders and Tesla investors, Sergey Brin and Larry Page would like to put in this vehicle? Here's my take...

Funny thing happened this week in the tech press. On Thursday, the Inquirer printed a story with the headline "Touch Screen Is the Future of Computing, Says Microsoft." The very next day, Vnunet.com published another story headlined "Touch Screens Are Not the Future of Computing, Says HP."

Microsoft is right. HP is wrong. Again.

A status report on the roll out of the in-flight Gogo Wi-Fi service for Internet access on Delta airlines. Also, there shouldn't be a Gogo Wi-Fi network on the ground, yet there was.

Apple has been making a lot of moves over the past few weeks which seem to indicate that it is trying to speed up the consumption of iPhone 3Gs.

Here are some of the indications that Apple has been offloading iPhone 3Gs:

In Friday's IT Blogwatch, we wonder if we'll be Skyping from our iPhones soon. Not to mention Atari 2600 powered by hope ...

Apple today announced that the World Wide Developer Conference would be held on the previously predicted dates of June 8th-12th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.  Since Apple has dropped out of Macworld (and had a paltry showing this year), WWDC is THE event for us Apple watchers.

President Obama wants to simultaneously improve education while getting costs under control. School districts are so stressed financially that they're laying off teachers and ending valuable programs. Here's one modest proposal from the tech blogosphere: Get rid of paper textbooks in favor of digital books and materials for high school and college students as a way to both improve education and cut costs.

A DSL outage today is just the latest glitch for Verizon's successor in New England. This customer is ready to switch.

A group advocating broadband Internet access in rural areas of the US has announced a five-point "Broadband Bill of Rights" designed to guarantee Internet access far beyond the nation's cities and suburbs. The group also calls for stimulus funds to build IP infrastructure in rural areas.