Category: connectivity

There are a couple of salient points brought up by columnist John C. Dvorak in his latest piece entitled My Mothers Day Comcast Nightmare, where he recounts his issues with his Internet connection on Sunday:
I had tweeted this problem …

IPv6 is the next generation of IP–the protocol by which most of our computers, phones, and other related devices talk to each other and to the Internet. Today, everything generally talks using IPv4, which has a 32-bit address space, or …

I was reading a study from Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies about smartphones and mobile data plans (warning: PDF link). While people are really interested in smartphones, people aren’t really thinking about the data plans that go …

While the prices aren’t exactly where I’d like them to be, it appears the major US mobile operators are finally starting to get a clue about mobile data services and are at least offering something approaching reasonable. I realize there are …

Every time I see an article on Net Neutrality, I cringe. Mostly because it’s the same old arguments repeated over and over again. The pro-net neutrality types are concerned that some content will be preferred over others and that you’ll have …

I’ve used my mobile phones under unusual circumstances, at least for me. Mostly I was in areas where connectivity was nearly non-existant (Northern Alabama) or insanely expensive (traveling outside the US). Based on that, I have some interesting observations about …

I’ve spent the last several days in the Benelux region of Europe and have a week or so in Israel ahead of me. Seems like a perfect time to test the three Global Roaming SIMs I have: from MAXroam, …

One of my personal complaints with the prepaid industry in the US is the fact that while voice minutes have gotten reasonably cheap, data is still somewhat of a crapshoot. It’s expensive, if it’s available at …

Since I’ve joined Check Point Software, I’ve done a fair bit of traveling–moreso than I’ve done in quite some time. Since I am ending up more random places, and have had the joy of going through airport security in Tel …

It’s that time again:

FreeConferencing.com Launches: Until they do something to equalize inter-carrier compensation between most civilized parts of the United States and rural locations, services like FreeConferenceCall.com and now FreeConferencing.com will continue to exist and be profitable. By …