If you missed church yesterday, you can blame your iPhone alarm for not going off thanks to a glitch. You'll have to start working on those New Year's resolutions next week. People around the globe complained of being affected by this problem on Facebook and Twitter and news agencies have also picked up the story. From Yahoo! News: Apple said in a message sent to Macworld … [Read more...]
Federal Communications Commission Approves Net Neutrality Rules 3-2
The FCC approved a set of Net Neutrality rules today that many sum up as a compromise of the related issues debated in the past few years on the topic. The vote which passed by a single vote at 3 to 2 is expectedly controversial; one side says it doesn't do enough while the other complains that it oversteps the FCC's regulation capabilities. I felt NPR did a thorough and … [Read more...]
Blogging the First East Central Illinois Regional Broadband Summit
Last week, I had the privilege to attend the first East Central Illinois Regional Broadband Summit. The summit was put on by the East Central Illinois Development Corporation (ECIDC) and hosted in Mattoon, Illinois. The catalyst behind this summit gathering non-profit organizations and private corporations together stems from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 … [Read more...]
News From The Google Chrome Special Announcement: Browser, Web Store, and OS
Thanks to the marvels of the connected world, I was able to attend the Google Chrome Special Announcement today streamed live through the Google Chrome YouTube channel. Initially introduced by Gabriel Stricker, Director of Global Communications & Public Affairs at Google Inc., today's stream ran at about an hour and a half with an additional Q&A session. Sundar … [Read more...]
Amazon Announces New DNS Service Through their Amazon Simple Storage Service
Just last week, Amazon kicked WikiLeaks off of its Amazon S3 service for violating its Terms of Service. Shortly after that, WikiLeaks lost DNS services from EveryDNS and more recently, Paypal stopped processing donations made to the WikiLeaks account. With an announcement today, Amazon is now providing two out of those three things that WikiLeaks needs but isn't allowed to … [Read more...]