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I Want to Be a Cylon
By Glenn Farr About five years ago, when I bought a Palm Pilot as part of my ever-spiraling descent into tech-geekdom, I found pre-installed on it an article describing an expected technological watershed referred to as “the technological singularity.” Read More...
Posted 13 November 08 05:05 by glennf@naca.org | 0 Comments   
Barack Obama and the Internet
With our nation's historic election day just a week behind us, many in the media are discussing a myriad of topics about President-Elect Obama's transition, where his kids are going to school, which type of dog they'll buy, economic policies and how he Read More...
Posted 12 November 08 10:20 by chrisn | 2 Comments   
Landlines Declining Among Internet Users
by Chris Neiger It's not hard to assume that more and more people are using their cell phones as their primary phone of choice, rather than a fixed landline at their home, but it's always nice to have some information to back up that idea. The Nielsen Read More...
Posted 22 September 08 11:41 by chrisn | 0 Comments   
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UK Allows ISPs to Pursue Customer Surfing Habits
by Chris Neiger I knew people talked a lot about our friends across the pond losing privacy rights, but now I'm starting to believe it may be true. I recently read on the BBC that the UK has just allowed a controversial form of web tracking to be conducted Read More...
Posted 16 September 08 11:23 by chrisn | 1 Comments   
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An HD-DVD Story
By Glenn Farr I first became acquainted with high definition TV a little more than two years ago when I impulsively bought a small flat-panel television and added a high definition converter and channels to my satellite package. To put it mildly, it was Read More...
Posted 29 August 08 12:56 by glennf@naca.org | 3 Comments   
Flying Higher and in 1080p--Eventually
By Glenn Farr When I recall a few facts about technological advances in my own lifetime, I’m stunned. Some things I simply can’t seem to live without today didn’t exist when I was born and most didn’t become part of my everyday life until the last decade. Read More...
Posted 31 July 08 12:18 by glennf@naca.org | 0 Comments   
Cell Phones, Contracts, and Capitalism
By Chris Neiger T-Mobile has finally jumped on board with other cell phone providers and is reducing the costs of its early termination fees (ETFs) by setting up a prorated system of contract termination. Verizon Wireless implemented a similar system Read More...
Posted 23 June 08 05:05 by chrisn | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft's New Push to Be Cool
By Chris Neiger Yesterday I read an article on the Fast Company website about advertising genius Alex Bogusky and his new $300 million deal with Microsoft to produce the next ad campaign for the tech giant (read about it here ). After I read it, I kept Read More...
Posted 20 June 08 01:53 by chrisn | 0 Comments   
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Teaching My Parents about Technology
By Glenn Farr I should have known I’d be driving uphill with a few failed cylinders and no clutch when my mother sincerely asked me one day if it were necessary to rewind DVDs. Yes, she actually asked me that when I gave them their first DVD player at Read More...
Posted 18 June 08 04:37 by glennf@naca.org | 1 Comments   
Finally, A Sirius Merge for XM
by Chris Neiger After 16 months of being held up in the regulatory process, Sirius and XM are finally close to their desired merger. Yesterday, the FCC Chairman Kevin Martin gave the O.K., and later this week we'll find out if the other commissioners Read More...
Posted 16 June 08 05:00 by chrisn | 0 Comments   
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The iPhone Revolution 2.0
By Chris Neiger It’s here. It seems like ever since the first iPhone was launched technophiles and business gurus have been talking about the next generation iPhone and how much better it will be than the first one. Not that the first generation iPhone Read More...
Posted 11 June 08 12:27 by chrisn | 1 Comments   
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A New Addiction
By Glenn Farr In spite of my general addiction to gadgets, I waited a long time to buy my first DVD player. The units remained fairly expensive during the first few years after they were launched in the late ‘90s and I didn’t find my price point for a Read More...
Posted 10 June 08 01:21 by glennf@naca.org | 0 Comments   
Why I Don't Own an iPod
By Glenn Farr Here in the NACA Office, there used to be a small group of fellow employees who would bet, in jest of course, what gizmo I might be buying next. These people had followed me through innumerable RAM upgrades to past computers, along with Read More...
Posted 10 June 08 10:30 by glennf@naca.org | 0 Comments   
America: Land of the Free... Internet?
by Chris Neiger Yesterday I read reports that the FCC is considering auctioning off air waves to private companies in an effort to set up a network of free wireless Internet to millions of homes in the U.S. The New York Times spoke with FCC spokesman, Read More...
Posted 30 May 08 11:10 by chrisn | 0 Comments   
Let's Talk Wireless Business
by Chris Neiger On Wednesday CTIA, a trade group for the wireless industry, released an updated report on the future impact of wireless technology on businesses. Sparing you the technical details, it basically said that wireless technologies are going Read More...
Posted 28 May 08 09:59 by chrisn | 1 Comments   
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