In news that should make the technologically proficient being in all of us weep, the latest news from the FCC regarding home broadband speeds is quite disheartening. It appears that our national broadband infrastructure isn’t as robust as we think it is. Specifically, out of the 90,963,000 U.S. broadband connections tracked by the FCC, a full 68% fail to meet the revised 4Mbps down/1Mbps up requirements recently put into effect. Breaking it down further, of those...

Coming from several years of BlackBerry use and knowing full well how frugal the devices are when data is concerned, it’s pretty intriguing to see the latest news regarding mobile data usage. Specifically, according to StatCounter and some 15 billion monitored web pages, BlackBerry OS actually consumed more mobile data than Apple’s iOS. In reality, it’s both surprising and unsurprising. On one hand, many people (including myself at times) discount the...

Up until 2010, mobile data was a great uncharted land of adventure. Those precious bits were fed to you in unlimited quantities. Times were good. And then carriers started feeling the burden of a growing smartphone user base. The caps came and the prices rose. As we look towards even faster technologies such as WiMax and LTE, such things as data caps become even more of an issue. With that said, Verizon Wireless CEO Ivan Seidenberg made some recent statements...

USB 3 and eSATA may be the king and queen when it comes to external speed, but no technology is more promising than Intel’s Light Peak. While USB 3.0 was a marginal, linear progression from USB 2.0 and 1.0 before it, Light Peak is exponentially faster. For example, USB 3.0 has a theoretical top speed of 5.0Gbps. Though real-world speeds tend to hover around 100-130MB/s. Still, that’s a helluva lot better than their previous technologies. Light Peak on the...

Want to dip your toes in this whole “wild web” thing that seems to be getting more and more conversation lately? In the early days of the internet, getting any type of web hosting with a decent amount of 1 and 0 allotment and at an affordable price was pretty near impossible. As the years have progressed the vast interwebs have become clogged with all kinds of options. I usually say that the more options the better. And while still generally true, actually...