One Million Downloads

The Opera browser has become even more popular since all the bad press about how insecure Internet Explorer is. If the Opera desktop browser is red hot, the Opera Mobile browser is white hot. Earlier this week, Opera Software announced its one millionth download of Opera Mobile from www.opera.com. This is in addition to the […]

Rolling Thunder – 2

This story isn’t about WiFi, blogging, or The Future Of The Internet — much more on that important set of topics to come. At times, it is fun to write about music, motorcycles, hiking, and other things. This story is a journal about a 666 mile two-day motorcycle trip — not quite as long as […]

The Pyramids

The long trek to Cario, Egypt began on the afternoon of September 5th with a ride to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Exactly twelve hours later I was enjoying a cup of café latte in the Lufthansa Airlines lounge at the Frankfurt, Germany Airport. Frankfurt is a very well organized, clean, and modern airport. With […]

DemoMobile 2004 – part 2

DemoMobile 2004 brought a laser focus to the area of mobile computing this week in La Jolla (near San Diego and pronounced La Hoya, in case you are not familiar with it) . As I mentioned in DemoMobile – part 1, there have been skeptics over the years about mobile computing. Some have wondered whether […]

WiFi Update – No. 9

Where is WiFi headed? I don’t claim to have a crystal ball but one thing is for sure and that is that WiFi is making the Internet “always on” and extending it to more people and more devices at more locations. A number of us have predicted that WiFi would become like air and water […]