Archive for the 'Technology' Category

From the Agurban Institute
According to Telecommunications Industry News, broadband penetration in the U.S. has grown by more than 300% in the past six years. This is according to a recent report by Scarborough Research.
Approximately 49% of American adults now have a high-speed internet connection in their households, up from just 12% in 2002. DSL represents […]

For the record, I HATE hotmail. I hate the name. I hate the service. I hate the spam that comes from hotmail users. I think it’s completely unprofessional to try to do business or even conduct serious communications using a hotmail address. Did I mention that I hate hotmail?
But in case you don’t, here’s a […]

Read this at BizReport. HT to Womma.org
If you’re marketing through online video, you really need to be hitting the social networks like Digg, etc.
Search engines provide lots of traffic, but the social networks EQUAL them! It’s a way for the small fry to compete.
They’re sending 30% of the traffic to videos! Wow!
According to the report, […]

I’m a “Back of the Napkin” kid of guy myself, but if you need to do 3D modeling, Google offers free downloadable SketchUp software
There’s two versions, one for professionals and one for educators and schools to use.
But I wonder if people could use these for their sales presentations?
We  Back of the Napkin guys would like […]

Read it all at Web Worker Daily
But here are the ones I like best. For instance, I can’t get into the keyboard shortcuts at the moment.  Do I really want to remember all that extra stuff? It’s like learning a foreign language, and if I’ve got to learn one, I’d prefer one spoken by people […]

Microsoft has a marketing nightmare on their hands. Like other near monopolies, they don’t seem to care. They figure “You’ll just have to learn to like it.”
That’s a great opportunity for someone else - anyone else! Please!
From Breitbart
Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have papered […]

I found this quote from eMarketer interesting because these facts lead them to conclude we are reaching “broadband saturation”:
eMarketer estimates that by 2012 there will be over 533 million broadband households worldwide, of which 94.3 million will be in the United States. A good percentage of these broadband subscribers will also be subscribing to a […]

Web Worker Daily had an article on the expected proliferation of microprojectors.  Here’s what they had to say basically:
The basic idea is that advances in lasers and LEDs are making it possible to build into a small device - say, the size of a large cell phone - something that can project a picture a […]

The cell phone lets you do business anywhere. But studies like these may give you pause.
I would think a blue tooth would emanate less power… but still I’d only “wear it” while talking.
Or use the speaker phone option.
Study: Cell Phones Could Be More Hazardous Than Cigarettes

Looking for a great Web Cam? I never really thought I’d be interested in having one… but then again I never thought I’d play around with mp3 editing either. So now I’m in the market for a Web Cam.
Here’s the buzz I’ve been getting about a GREAT web cam… It’s the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 […]