The South By Southwest festival in Austin Texas has become the Launchpad for startups over the last few years with it’s unique ability to take a company from unknown to the next hot thing over the course of a few days. With its Multitude of events spread out across the city, it provides a unique scaling exercise for any start-up focused on real time communication and location. The most notable of the companies to experience [...]

Comcast partnered with the City of Boston recently to provide low cost Internet service to students who graduated from one of the federally funded Computer training programs offered in the city. The students will get the service for 10.95 the first year and 15.95 the second year. The program will allow the newly trained students to afford Internet access that was previously out of reach. The combination of training and access is a great step [...]

As we all know, President Obama set the stage for change in his SOTU address where he made the bold claim that the country will have access to broadband for everyone. I’m sure that when people heard the speech that night, it was assumed that the execution on that vision would not start for some time. Well, on February 8th the FCC took a step and voted to overhaul the Universal Service Fund so that those funds can [...]

Rep. Bobby Rush spoke about the future during  speech at the MMTC conference last week.  He recently lost to Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) in the race for telecom ranking member, he was elected to lead Energy and Power instead. Some of his speech touched on the campaign launched by the group Color of Change against him during his bid for the post on the telecom committee. According to an article on the hill.com he thanked [...]

Every year when we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King , we take stock ( or we should be) in how far we’ve come to achieving the dream of equality the Dr. King had so many years ago. And we each year I believe we take a few steps forward and a step back. On one hand I firmly believe that as African Americans we have more opportunities for success and empowerment today [...]

I don’t drink coffee, but my wife has me get her Starbucks almost daily.  For those of you that frequent Starbucks, you know that sometimes the line is out the door, so I was excited when I read this story about how Starbucks has just rolled out a mobile payments service nationwide at their stores. I immediately thought not only about how much time I can save with this during the daily Starbucks runs, but [...]

One word sums up the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that commenced last week in Las Vegas, showcasing the future of consumer technologies: Wireless. With devices of all shapes and sizes making their debut on the show floor, it was obvious to anyone walking the booths that the majority of the new products include a component of wireless technology. As our world becomes more and more reliant on new offerings that depend on mobile technology, [...]

I came across a story on Mashable today that talks about how the organization Teens in Tech had just launched and an incubator for teens to help them start their own companies. I think this a great idea and I hope it helps scores of teens take up entrepreneurship. The problem is that is one is in Mountain View CA and since it’s part of Silicon Valley it’s a great location but how can we [...]