What if every time you decided to change the channel on your television, you had to wait while it loaded or created a buffer? We wouldn’t watch near as much television, would we? And, that’s kind of what it’s like with large files–video, audio, even pdf’s–that we send to each other and try to view on our computers. The promise ...
Read More »Imagine if Half the World Had Internet Access
According to Advance Micro Devices (AMD), in ten years you may not have to if they succeed in an initiative they have launched called "50 x 15". I’m certain that none of us can imagine not having access to the Internet, even though in relative terms most of us–if not all–didn’t use this technology on a daily basis 15 years ...
Read More »International Technology Conference Begins This Week in Austin
I am attending the 2006 World Congress on Information Technology in Austin this week on behalf of the FICenter, and will contribute a few posts to FISpace during the conference. The conference will focus on three major high-tech concerns: privacy and security for those using computers and other electronic information devices; access by people everywhere, of all economic levels; and ...
Read More »Mobile media study released
Online Media Daily posts a story that says "futurists might be pinning their hopes on mobile media, but the technology doesn’t appear to be there yet, according to a new joint Isobar-Yahoo report released Thursday." Read more.
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