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- IT sizing error delays Boston commuters
- IT sizing error delays Boston commutersMaybe there should be a backupI still remember my college days when the computerized cash registers at the department store where I worked went down every once in a while, bring sales to a halt, sometimes for an hour or more.RE: IT sizing error delays...
- Tags: Processor Power, processing power, commuter, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Rail commuters: Prefer on-train Wi-Fi or your own wireless broadband?
- The always-knowledgeable Glen Fleishman of Wi-Fi Networking News posts an informative overview on several separate efforts to equip various California Bay Area commuter rail lines with on-train Wi-Fi. As an enthusiastic Wi-Fi user, a non-infrequent passenger on these routes, AND as a major...
- Tags: Broadband, ROI, Wi-Fi, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- VoIP to cell to WiFi to WLAN on one device? Yes!
- Image is from the Mobile & Portable Radio Research Group at Virginia Tech. At an Internet telephony conference last month, I wound up talking to a guy about mobile devices."What would be your ultimate handset," I asked him.He said something to the effect of a device that could seamlessly...
- Tags: cognitive radio
- Blog posts 2006-02-22
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- Texting? Pull Over ...
- So, it looks official. The train engineer who never slowed down before ramming his commuter train into a freight train in California was indeed sending text messages right up to the time of the crash. That's bad enough. Twenty-five people died and 135 were injured in the...
- Tags: Train, California, U.K., Wreck, Bicyclists, Advertising & Promotion, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Manufacturing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Targus Zip-Thru laptop bag
- Air travel--while a requirement of modern life for many--has become, at best, a barely tolerable experience that tests the patience of even the zen-like commuter. The chokepoint most likely to raise one's blood pressure is the infamous security checkpoint, with its required shedding of shoes and belts, and, of course,...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Targus, Targus Zip-Thru, Transportation Security Administration, x-ray machine
- Product reviews 2008-09-22
- A Failure To Not Communicate
- The preliminary findings of the investigation of last week's commuter train crash in Southern California: Text-messaging was involved, the Wall Street Journal reports. This is a wreck that should make us think, about how much we need to communicate.. by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Tags: Southern California, Wreck, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Technology could have averted fatal LA train crash
- Technology could have averted fatal LA train crashWhy is everyone so hell bent on blaming the cell phone?Yes it may have been the engineer was utilizing a cellular phone (texting/phone or otherwise). The cell phone is an inanimate object and not capable of making choices - it does as its...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Technology could have averted fatal LA train crash
- Positive train control" technology - already in use in some parts of the country -- could have avoided last week's fatal train crash in southern California, the Federal Railroad Administration pronounced yesterday. PTC includes GPS and digital communications to enforce speeds and monitor movements. Twenty-five people were...
- Tags: California Public Utilities Commission, PTC, LA Times, Monitors & Displays, Government, GPS, Federal Government, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Learning From The Train Wreck Of Text Messaging
- Don't kill the messaging technology, when the alleged messager is already dead. But the possibility that text messaging was at the root of Friday's fatal train wreck in California should be enough to give us all pause. Isn't it about time we called a timeout on our...
- Tags: Text Messaging, Wreck, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Instant Messaging, Cellular Phones, Groupware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Are telecommuters inherently greener than the rest of us?
- Are telecommuters inherently greener than the rest of us?I actually laughed at this.."It’s for midsize-ish-size companies, which is to say at least a few hundred users, and it’ll cost roughly $700 per user for an installation of that size, Kost figures"Who in their right mind would pay such a price...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi
- Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. The company says that its wireless networking equipment now...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- More small scale electric transport
- A2B, courtesy Ultra Motors. This is the A2B, as in "gets you from A to B." It's Ultra Motors' electric bike aimed at the harried, gas-attacked urban commuter. There are other electric bikesd around, of course. Here's Ultra's own pitch...
- Tags: A2B, Bike, Internet, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)
- Have you been to Boston recently? Ridden the T as the subway there is called? A while back, they switched from friendly little nostalgic tokens to awkward tickets and commuter passes called Charlie Cards. Living out in the sticks of central Massachusetts, I don't spend enough time...
- Tags: Ticket, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Boston, Washington DC Metro, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Photos: Baby steps for NASA's small-plane challenge
- Last weekend's General Aviation Challenge in Sonoma County, Calif., is meant to encourage the development of tech that could one day get commuter air cars to takeoff. by CNET News.com
- Tags: NASA, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-08-11
- Getting to work without going to work, how green is that?
- A resource management software provider teamed up with an experienced market analysis and research firm. Their goal was to find out how American corporations are using technology to control their operating costs. Building space, operating costs from lighting to HVAC, conference room needs--all are crucial parts of the...
- Tags: Nucleus Research Inc., Worker, PeopleCube, John Anderson, Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- 2008 Honda Civic EX-L
- Photo gallery:2008 Honda CivicHonda's Civic line has long been synonymous with frugality and reliable, if pedestrian, basic transportation. The current crop of 2008 Honda Civics is no exception, but these days it's possible to outfit a Civic with a few modern conveniences while keeping the payments within reach. The loaded...
- Tags: Keyboards, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, touch-screen keyboard, navigation system, Honda Civic, Honda Motor Co.
- Product reviews 2008-06-18
- (Photos: E-paper devices for the commuter crowd)
- (Photos: E-paper devices for the commuter crowd)iliadwhere can i get one of these??? im looking at getting one for school, but i dont know where to get one. looks great and is exactly what i could use, wish it was color but it works. send me a msg...
- Tags: e-paper device, e-paper, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-06-15
- The newspaper's last stand
- Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...
- Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- The Rise of Web Commuting
- More workers than ever are performing at least part of their jobs outside the traditional office space. The rise of online meeting and collaboration tools has not only enabled workers to meet with colleagues, customers and prospects from virtually anywhere at any time, it has also increased productivity by reducing...
- Tags: Web, Citrix Systems Inc., Channel Management, Marketing
- White papers 2008-03-24
- A closer look at the HTC Shift from Sprint
- I've been using an HTC Shift from Sprint for over a week now and as you can see in the more than 140 photos and screenshots found in my image gallery and quick and dirty post yesterday I have had a chance to try out most all aspects of the...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Microsoft Windows Vista, Sprint Communications, HTC Shift, SnapVUE 1.8, A/C Adapter Brick, Origami Central Application, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
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