America’s Innovation Deficit

Judy Estrin – former Cisco CTO – has written a book entitled Closing the Innovation Gap. She is Featured today in a article at Wired. America is facing an innovation crisis. To fix it, corporations need to find new ways of funding fundamental research into physics and environmental sciences. There is no question this is… Continue reading America’s Innovation Deficit

Snowl: Drinking water through a fire hose?

There is a new Mozilla project called Snowl that is supposed to bring all of you communications together… Take a look and let me know… doesn’t this look like drinking water through a fire hose? I know just keeping up with my RSS, Twitter and Facebook information is impossible. At what point is too much…… Continue reading Snowl: Drinking water through a fire hose?

Free World Dialup moving to $30 annual membership

From Jeff Pulver’s blog this morning comes news that FWD (Free World Dialup) is going to begin charging for VoIP Service. FWD has long had a very large user base and significant challenges generating any revenue from that base… they’ve seen Vonage, Broadvoice etc create businesses from the basic idea they’ve been working since 2001.… Continue reading Free World Dialup moving to $30 annual membership

AZ Should be Trumpeting this from every rooftop – Phoenix Lander Has Touched Martian Water For the First Time

Everyone (and there are A LOT of them) who say Arizona is a engineering, math and science wasteland should read this and understand just how big of a deal for Arizona this is. The UofA is leading this entire mission from Tucson – for the first time in the history of NASA. The mission has… Continue reading AZ Should be Trumpeting this from every rooftop – Phoenix Lander Has Touched Martian Water For the First Time