Since broadband has taken off here in the states (mostly) as well as the rest of the world, people, especially those with older machines that are having a not so easy time keeping up with the increasing demands placed upon them, have started started focusing their attention on cloud services. Of course there is Apple’s paid MobileMe service which is decent, there is Microsoft’s LiveMesh, Google of course has their own venture and host of services to brag about,...

As any frequent flyer knows, any fligh, especially longer flights can often be a test of strength, nerves, patience, and the human gag reflex. Why if you manage to forgot your trust cross word book or small work project to work on while in flight, you are left with nothing to do but count the fibers on the carpet, the number of overhead lightbulbs, or even the number of men/women on the flight among other time passing “games”. Thankfully AirTran is coming to...

We all know that the current crop of smartphones from RIM, Apple, and Google/Android coupled with the much greater availability of 3G networks are ushering in a new era of mobile data usage that is literally bringing many carriers and networks to their knees. We often hear of other countries such as Japan, Korea, Singapore, etc that offer either faster broadband speeds, mobile data speeds, etc. However, we don’t often hear about the U.S. being first in much of...

For some of the harder and more challenging questions in life, sometimes we have to think outside of the box or venture into a more philosophical realm of our minds that may not get much use.  I myself have often pondered over many deep and intellectual life changing decisions.  Thankfully there are some equally deep people over at Google and I can finally mark one of deepest most confusing questions of the list: “How many Google searches does it take to produce a...

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I have several friends that live in apartment buildings. One of their biggest gripes is that even though they have a wireless router in their bedroom, in the living room on the other side of the wall, they often receive spotty performance even with a near perfect signal. What gives? Well, if you didn’t know, the 2.4GHz spectrum used by WiFi routers is also use by a host of other household appliances and devices – devices such as baby monitors, microwaves, and...

Web applications were something that the world first got crammed down their throats with the original iPhone and it’s lack of on board apps.  **I know it’s not the first display of web apps, again, just the first to be widely publicized about**.  While many users of Apple’s mostly smartphone cried out for legitimate apps, a new and oddly opposite trend is starting to appear on desktop computers – the move to web apps.  Web apps are shaping up to...