I was recently asked to write an article about how to choose the best satellite service for an individual consumer.  I began doing my research and gathering my thoughts to really dig in and put out a nice piece on how the average Joe could make an informed decision on something that appears to be quite complicated.  As I researched the topic I came across an article I wrote a couple of years ago found here Satellite Internet.  I read...

It’s funny how history repeats itself.  And, like most things in our modern and shiny world, it’s happening at a much faster rate.  Once upon a time you would need to wait a generation to see the same silly mistake crop up but now we can do it in a couple of years.  I wrote an article in 2008 about net neutrality, and it appears that the exact same discussion is either going on again or simply never stopped.  Check it out...

Superlatives and Hyperbole are common in any discussion of the mobile explosion. Smartphones are rapidly replacing ordinary cell phones as the default communications device on wireless networks. Mobile phone numbers are rapidly replacing old-fashioned landline phone numbers for consumers. In fact, during the keynote presentation at the Internet Advertising Bureau’s recent Annual Leadership meeting, Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (until...

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, the company’s latest attempt to crack the smartphone market, had a troubled start.  Microsoft’s first update for Windows Phone 7 was essentially an update that would allow the real update to run, strange, isn’t it? The First Update Disaster That initial update has led to user complaints that their various smartphones had been “bricked,”  meaning that the updates had rendered them unusable much like...

Gil Scott-Heron once wrote a song called “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” More than 40 years later, it may not matter if a revolution is televised or not so long as it is tweeted; and now you can tweet from anywhere. Smartphone Organizational Skills In 2009, when Iranians were protesting in the wake of the elections that year, Twitter users around the globe switched their profile locations to represent Tehran, making it harder...

Mobile phones and mobile apps are more popular than ever before and the mobile application market is set to explode in 2011. Well, at least that is what market analysts expect to happen, anyway, and judging by trends in 2010, the analysts are more than likely right. The Evolution of the Mobile Phone As phones advance, so do the applications they use, making things that people could only do on computers easily done on mobile phones, and the...