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 [...]

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:

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 [...]

As Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke a panel at the Edtech conference two themes echoed loud and clear. He mention broadband is no longer a luxury and the two areas we need to focus on are digital literacy and Rural broadband access. There is no question that today being digitally literate is essential to participate in our economy, and there is no question that these technologies provide the opportunities to equalize opportunity,” he [...]

Everyday i read more tweets, articles and posts from people speaking out against the AT&T /T-mobile claiming higher prices and other constraints to competition but at the same time i see Sprint get the Iphone4s and be in a position to compete with any other carrier. But as these small wins are won on either side i feel like there is one area that is being neglected, Rural America. They don’t represent Big gains for [...]

Many of us take for granted the various education opportunities we have access to on a regular basis. But for many people those same options are not afforded to them. Location and infrastructure are huge barriers for many minorities and people in rural areas. The way to get them the access they deserve is through wireless. In the USDLA’s recent report there are numerous success stories of people who had their lives change by having [...]

The latest Pew report was published about Cell phone usage and it continues to show what increasingly more and more people are starting to realize, that wireless is the key driver to closing the digital divide. You can find the report here but all the data points to how mobile broadband is continuing to provide access to minorities to services that they otherwise would not be connected to. IF you look at the chart of [...]