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Cisco Has 100K Twitter Followers!
They announced this social media milestone on their blog, The Platform. They’ve also analyzed the 100,000 profiles and associated tweets to come up with a great infographic. According to Cisco, the most retweeted status points to CEO John Chambers’ tribute … Continue reading
3D Standard Announcement at CES
We have one eye scanning news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show underway in Las Vegas. And with 3D on our minds lately–see last few posts–we were preconditioned to be receptive to this latest announcement from Samsung, Panasonic, Sony … Continue reading
And Now a Few Words From Our Keynote Speaker, Mohamed ElBaradei
When I was more actively going to big trade shows and conferences, the star speaker was usually a meaty high-level executive (of the biggest sponsor) or other tech luminary. Occasionally, at the end of the event, there’d be a motivational … Continue reading
Best Bits From the FCC Report on AT&T Merger
So much to choose from! I’ve gotten through the first half of the FCC’s analysis of the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. To my utter lack of surprise, all the things you or I might have intuited about this deal have been found … Continue reading
Unleash App Inventor’s Small Biz Potential
A few weeks ago I received a review copy of Ralph Roberts’ “Google App Inventor” from the ebook publisher Packt Publishing. I took a quick look at it, was favorably impressed by the sections I read, and was left with … Continue reading
Cisco Flames HP’s Non-Compete
In the mostly bland world of corporate blogging, we almost did a spit take with our espresso this morning while scanning Cisco’s “The Platform.” Mark Chandler, General Counsel, authored a post in which he challenged Hewlett Packard to allow its … Continue reading
US vs. AT&T: Pre-Trial Paper Wars
They argued over lists and schedules and experts witnesses and limitations placed on adverse witnesses and written versus oral testimony and perhaps the number of coffee breaks–’cause this trial will require plenty of that. I am referring to the pre-trial … Continue reading
Broadband for the 33%: FCC Implements Low Cost Service Program
An underpinning of the National Broadband Plan is Universal Service Fund reform and greater broadband adoption. The Plan calls for the creation of a Connect America Fund to distribute USF monies to ISPs that cover underserved and low income areas. … Continue reading
Senate To Vote On Anti-Net Neutrality Resolution
The US Senate is expected to vote on Joint Resolution 6 this week. You mean you’ve forgotten about this? SJ 6 is a one sentence piece of legislation that succinctly expresses Senators’ (read Republicans’) desire to stomp on the FCC’s … Continue reading
App Inventor Nostalgia: It’s Still Pretty Good.
I haven’t thought about Google’s App Inventor since it was thrown off Sergey and Larry’s bus this past summer. Yes, it does live on as an open source project at MIT’s Media Labs, but certainly the orphaning of AI has … Continue reading














