President Obama’s SOTU address was one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. He came out clearly reminded people what he had accomplished and what he felt needed to be done next. He also touched on the importance of bringing jobs back to the US and training people to be able to take open tech jobs. The one area I wished he would have covered more is the importance of creating 4G networks [...]

With the launch of Apple’s IBook textbook application a new era in learning has begun. Listen to my podcast where I explain that while the technology is game changing, not getting it to minorities and the inner cities could create a new digital divide. I believe a post from Time magazine paints an accurate picture of the worst case scenario: Thus in the most frightening scenario, one could imagine a world where Apple’s textbooks serve [...]

At this point many of you may have heard about SOPA ( Stop Online Privacy Act) and may have thought that unless you needed to use Wikipedia today that you should not care. That is actually not true.  I wanted to take the time to give you a high level understanding of what SOPA is and  how it can affect you.  Mashable.com gives good high level overview of the what the act would do so [...]

When you hear talk about the FCC creating plans to create equal levels of internet access for all, most of those plans don’t really take in to account how to bridge the divide in urban and rural areas for minorities. The government does not have the money to do it on their own. They also seem to take a general swipe approach to how to solve the broadband problem without taking into account that problem [...]

ATT held a hackathon  in Vegas during CES this week. The event connected developers with the business teams at ATT to help then great the next generation of great mobile apps. Check out the highlights in the video below:

African Americans Are Trendsetters We have always been trendsetters whether it’s Fashion, gadgets, music, or businesses African Americans have been pioneers in most cases. As I think about my early days growing up I realize that it was because of Black media that I always known how we impacted the world. This in turn gave me the confidence to realize that I to could to one day help set trends as well. In times when [...]

Is New Jersey capturing the full benefits of the new competitive marketplace when it comes to telecommunications? Absolutely not, and the reason for this is simple. New Jersey’s old regulatory structure is not allowing it to. New Jersey could be on the path to a prosperous digital future with the passage of the bipartisan Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act. Current regulations proved useful when they were put into place more than three decades ago [...]

The district of DC is dvided in terms of it’s access to broadband services. Some areas are at 97% connectivity while others are barely at 30% Those divisions exist even in the world of bits and bytes, unfortunately, with access to broadband services reaching 97 percent in Ward 3 while barely hitting the 40 percent mark in some communities east of the Anacostia River. That is about the change. The mayor recently announced a citywide [...]

I’ve been saying for some time now that there are critical items that the FCC is ignoring in their competition analysis of the ATT/T-Mobile merger. I recently came across an Article on Forbes.com that gives a great summary of some of those flows. You can read the article here and I’ve listed the flaws below: Totally ignored the Internet’s impact on wireless competition. Totally ignored international competitive comparisons that repudiate its conclusion. Assumed away all [...]