Archive for May, 2007

links for 2007-05-23

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Cities Struggle With Wireless Internet
“I will be surprised if the majority of these are successful and they do not prove to be drains on taxpayers’ money,” said Michael Balhoff, former telecom equity analyst with Legg Mason Inc. (LM) “The government is getting into hotly contested services.”
(tags: muni_wifi)

City Use Seen As Key to Wi-Fi Projects
Subscriptions or [...]

Muni WiFi’s Failures & the Digital Divide

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Business Week published two stories of interest today in the technology sector.
Muni WiFi
The first, Municipal Wi-Fi: A Failure To Communicate—Municipal Wi-Fi networks don’t quite deliver on the promise of wide-ranging access is true to its title. The article goes into greater detail about Earthlink and its decision to pull in the reins on further [...]

Next Gen of Wi-Fi Is Planned for Summer

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

For over a year, I have been advising against buying any Draft N wireless routers because the standard is still not ratified. Now it appears ratification isn’t coming for two more years, but I might have to ease my stance. Dwight Silverman with the Houston Chronicle has tested many different Draft N routers and clients, [...]

Return of Off-Line Blogging Software Challenge

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

A year ago, I reviewed three different off-line blogging software applications. They were, Qumana, BlogDesk, and Blog Writer. A year ago, I chose Blog Writer as the winner. Since that time, I have changed my mind, and no longer use Blog Writer.
I discovered that some blogging software (including Blog Writer) uses Microsoft Internet Explorer [...]

links for 2007-05-11

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Dell Donates Computer to Smithsonian
who could have ever guessed this happening?
(tags: tech)

URL Buyers Hope to Cash in on Tragedy
just sick!

NYC Taxi Cabs Offer High-Tech Hardware
some ideas show up just in the nick of time. not too early … not too late.
(tags: technology computers)

CBS, Viacom, Others to Invest in Joost
it looks like the vcs are back [...]

Technology Survey Has Many Surprises

Monday, May 7th, 2007

The Pew Internet and American Life Project conducted an extensive survey in early 2006 and they found a few surprises. Below is a dissection of the thirty-one percent high-tech users, but other findings give more insight into the tech world.
My Way Finance
The high-tech elites, for instance, are almost evenly split into:

“Omnivores,” who fully embrace technology [...]

Dave’s stuck in a cul-de-sac

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Dave at B2Blog writes about his personal experience with The Dip as written about by Seth Godin. I didn’t quote the best part of Dave’s article, you’ll have to click over to see the list of choices we have when we get stuck. He pretty much covers all the avenues.
B2Blog: Writer’s Dip: stuck in a [...]

WiMax Laptop Card Approved by FCC

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

The ability to connect via WiMax has been the missing link in the wireless camp. Clearwire now has an approved PC card for WiMax, leading me to think this technology will now take off. Yes, the FCC can be blamed as the bottleneck, but there weren’t any submissions for approval that I’ve looked at. This [...]

EarthLink Pauses On New Muni Wireless Projects

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

This article in Information Week contains so many great sentences, the temptation is to include the entire article. That is not my policy, so I settled for these few sentences that inject reality into the whole Muni-WiFi discussion. The requirement, though, is to visit the website and read the complete article.
EarthLink Pauses On New Muni [...]

Houston’s Largest Kroger Store

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

The Redhead and I were glad to see this store open last month because it saves us about five miles in our grocery shopping efforts, and best of all, new carts. Not any of the old wobbly carts that defy rolling straight, or two wheels that are round (meaning two are not).
We’ve shopped there three [...]