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Google just unveiled a Smartphone that will knock the socks off of your mobile internet.

Nexus One is Google’s smooth push for more consumer products.

It’s about as light as a Swiss army knife and uses a Qualcomm processor. The 3.7-inch, touch-screen display has deep contrasts with a color-changing track ball that changes color when you receive a message.

It has a built-in compass, a GPS, and a light sensor that helps consumers save power by adjusting to indoor and outdoor light. The camera has an LED flash accompanied by a one-click upload to YouTube. … Continue Reading

A response to Advertising Age’s article

You have logged into your daily check of your Facebook account and you are notified right away by the nice little red flag at the bottom of the web page, 8 new message. And of course, as any person would be, you are excited that so many people would want to contact you, popularity in its best form. With this excitement in hand, you click on that little red flag only to find out that, no, … Continue Reading

Please read my Op-Ed published in The Hill.

A recent article in the WSJ shared some statistics on cable consumption and how more people are using their cable’s high speed Internet connect to consume “traditional” TV.

According the the author, in 2008 some 900,000 US home chose Web TV only.  Not impressed with 0.5% of the US population?  Did you know that 8% of TV viewers watch at least one show online per week, up from 6% in 2008? (Leichtman Research).  More importantly, of this growing 8%, they … Continue Reading

Stanford University economist Paul Romer’s observation that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste” could be a rallying cry for past and present efforts to revive the economy and create jobs by bringing critical technology to Americans who need it.

In 1935 the crisis was the Great Depression and the critical technology was electricity. In 2009, the crisis is what’s being called “the Hurricane Katrina” of recessions and the technology is broadband Internet service.

Government response in 1935 was creation of the New Deal’s rural electrification program, a public/private partnership that raised the percentage of rural households with electricity from ten … Continue Reading