Navarrow Wright

If you have a business checking account the processs is easy. The credit check is in place more to make sure you are someone credible and only because it cost them money to create the readers that they are sending out for free. No where near as painful as the process you have to [...]

I’m going to say it since no one else will. This new site is a mess especially given the fact it’s from an iconic African American brand (which makes it worse). Aside from the Jet logo you can duplicate this look with a blog theme you could buy for $30. They are essentially just launching [...]

@Erik
What facts are you basing this on? The Comcast case was about them slowing down BitTorrent traffic because it was hogging bandwidth from other users and giving them a poor experience. I can tell you from my experience managing a corp IT network that we constantly had to block sites like BitTorrent because they [...]

Infancy??? I’m sorry but where have you been? The mobile industry is one of fastest growing sectors out there. While smart phone penetration may not be high among African Americans yet, to say media outlets should not “jump in” and develop apps for this industry is just wrong. What do you suggest they do? [...]

Julie
You give the solution in your own comment. Yes, there are people who have their own motives for closing the digital divide but we as African Americans need to to drive the closure so that we can have more seats at the table. If we can change the landscape and build awareness you will see [...]

Wiliam
I’m sorry but your contradicting yourself. First you say that they don’t have the capitol to build the applications and now your talking about them spending money on radio and TV advertising, creating cafes , creating wireless access points AND creating AA themed Kinkos?? I feel like i just got out of the hot tub [...]

Capitol???? Did you read my post here on blackweb about what it takes to build an iPhone app? http://www.blackweb20.com/2009/11/24/creating-a-new-generation-of-technology-entrepreneurs-part-2-consumption-vs-creation/ . The only cost is $99 to get your app on to the AppStore. If things are really tight go a local college and hire some comp sci interns to learn how to do it and [...]