Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
A report from WebSiteOptimization.com shows that websites have ballooned in size over the past few years. Between 2003 and 2008 the average web page size has grown from 93.1 kilobytes to 312 kilobytes. For people with decent broadband connections 312 kilobytes is drop in the bucket, but for those with ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Verizon and Comcast are rolling out the next generation of high-speed technology to limited markets. The new connections are going to deliver about 25 times the rate of the average broadband connections that are most widely available today. Verizon's FiOS has been available to folks in a number of states ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
This is a bit off-topic for a blog about technology, but I posted yesterday about micro-credit financing helping people in Bangladesh setup phone business and want to follow-up with something I've found. Micro-credit has been touted as a great capitalist solution to poverty. A small loan and hard work should ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Here is a good video about using microcredit to provide a poor remote village with a cell phone. The video is produced by the International Telecommunication Union, a special agency of the United Nations. Grameen Bank is an organization that provides micro-credit loans to people throughout the world, and provided ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
So what do kids do the on the Internet?
Warren Buckleitner, the editor of Children's Technology Review magazine, studied children in 10 different households who had access to high-speed Internet. Buckleitner put video cameras in the homes and had parents record how the kids used the Internet. He found that the ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
If technology is growing and changing at exponential rates how do people keep up with all the skills? Kids are great at intuitively picking these computer skills, its the adults that need the education.
This opinion piece at the Financial Times argues that continuing adult education is becoming so much more ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting op-ed up on their website about a Digital New Deal. With a recession and a lot of young people coming of age having used the Internet for most of their lives, the author, Helen De Michiel, argues that the government should start an ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
The Teachermate is targeted at kindergarden through third grade.
The XO laptop is designed to be easy to learn for kids of all ages around the world
Intel's Classmate is slightly more powerful than the XO, but lacks custom software.
A new low-cost handheld computer called the Teachermate was introduced in March by ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Is the way to offset the cost of building wireless networks to provide Internet access through advertising? Los Angles-based FreeFi Networks has deployed a campus wide wireless network at Roxbury Community College in Boston. The company has partnered with Microsoft, a company called Front Porch which produces adware, and another ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008, introduced in the House by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) in the beginning of February might be in trouble. The goal of the legislation is to address Net Neutrality issues and broadband issues.
The law, if passed, would require the ...
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