Policies, laws and regulations that impact the access and cost of Internet and the digital technologies we’ve come to depend on…
MoreSmart phones and tablets across the nation have been running at full capacity to keep up with this year’s NCAA March Madness basketball tournament. Many busy sports fans have chosen to follow their team using mobile applications (apps). We outlined a few of those nifty apps in this week’s blog titled, Can’t Get Enough of March Madness?.
Innovative technologies, such as Apple’s new iPad continue to create more jobs, boost businesses and keep the world connected. A Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBEC) study released in 2011 titled, Saving Time and Money with Mobile Apps, found that the “use of mobile apps among small business owners is also reducing overhead costs, increasing revenues and sales-related activity, improving competitiveness, and even allowing firms to add employees.”
If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past few weeks, then you probably have noticed that the annual NCAA basketball tournament is well underway. Because we know that you have a terribly busy schedule, and your mobile device is glued to your hand, we’ve decided to provide you with some of the top mobile applications, as told reported by Mashable, to watch your favorite teams on their path to victory.
Every time 15-year-old Eduardo Pérez is assigned an online project at school, he and his mother scramble to a family member’s home, library or Wi-Fi hot spot because they can’t afford Internet access at home.The Lee Middle School eighth-grader often depends on his 4G smartphone to do research, but the 4-inch screen is a strain on his eyes. Computer labs at public libraries fill quickly, and finding a nearby Wi-Fi-enabled café in the low-income area of west Orlando’s Lake Mann Estates is a challenge.
Spring is just around the corner and just as flowers begin to bloom, new mobile devices are soon to be lining the shelves of your favorite tech store. We’re excited about the many life changing devices that will make their debut. Last week we celebrated the release of “The New iPad” by discussing the many benefits that mobile technology bring to Americans.
These days it’s not uncommon to see a toddler quietly and contently playing educational games on a mobile device. It’s even more common to see mobile devices, like the tablet, utilized in the classroom. According to Apple’s Phil Schiller “1.5 million iPads were in use in education settings, leveraging more than 20,000 education applications,” in recent years. Our increased usage of broadband devices and technologies means digital literacy is an essential skill for children to have today.
This week’s release of “The New iPad” demonstrated yet another exciting advancement in the wonderful world of technology. Citizens for a Digital Future is excited about the many positive economic and social benefits that the use of mobile high-speed broadband continues to provide American consumers. On Wednesday, Citizens for a Digital Future sent a letter more »
With the percentage of households in Mississippi utilizing their cell phones as their only mobile connection rapidly growing, it seems wasteful to continue to require certain companies to expand outdated services like, traditional wireline, throughout the state. In fact, it would make more sense to build out the forms of technology, such as wireless, that consumers are typically using. Proposed House Bill 825 would update the regulation of telecommunications services so that telecommunications companies will have the freedom to build out the services their customers desire most.
Did you know that this week is National Telework Week? Many industries have used advances in mobile technology, like the laptop computer and high-speed internet, to boost production and more excitingly, to give their employees more flexibility in their work through the option to work from a remote location, also known as telecommuting.
Broadband access is an essential “lubricant” for economic growth, helping attract business and industry, according to a noted national economist speaking last week before the Community Development Foundation in Tupelo, Miss. Moreover, greater broadband deployment is “especially beneficial to rural areas” by reducing the economic challenges of geographic isolation.
