Archive for October, 2010
“Free Public WiFi” Isn’t WiFi, It’s Just A Free Nuisance
If you’re like me you’ve seen “Free Public WiFi” show up on your mobile device, laptop, etc. when looking for wifi connectivity in the wild. Ever wonder why it never works? It doesn’t work because it doesn’t really provide wifi of any kind. In fact it’s not even a wifi hotspot. It’s an “ad hoc” […]
Dell to Buy Dell?
Google invests in offshore wind grid project. Verizon going for simultaneous voice and data to new CDMA network. Spy school coughs up $610,000 for peeking in on students. Samsung TAB delayed in Korea. Malaysians have the most social network friends. Twitter wants one billion users. Meanwhile 75-percent of all tweets are ignored. We were almost […]
Americans Are Third Rate in Guess what?
Windows Phone 7 rolled out today. Read my column at www.pcmag.com. It’s not a cool factor phone by any means. Google getting ink over driver-free cars. It’s the future they say. Tourist space rocket tested. Read about it here: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=79212 . Gates Foundation getting into teaching machines. NASA getting money. AT&T going towards pay TV. […]
iPads to Sell 11 Million this Year? What?
Facebook changing for no apparent reason. Pulling a Digg? Logitech rolls out the Google TV. I think it is just an extended Harmony Controller. Apple back in the news regarding CDMA. Motorola wants FTC throw the book at Apple, Verizon going LTE sooner than later? Motorola Droid Pro supposed to be a Blackberry killer. Motorola […]
Still Waiting For The New Twitter
On September 15 Twitter announced a new web front end that would change the way people use the service. A new two paned interface that would rival all the third party apps people use to post their messages. The new UI is being rolled out incrementally which means that it could take a while for […]