As you may or may not know, fall weather in New England can throw some curve balls and on Oct 28 we got 24 inches of heavy wet snow. While snow is usually not a problem when the leaves have not fallen — it was. We had no street power or internet for 171 hours. [...]
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As you may or may not know, fall weather in New England can throw some curve balls and on Oct 28 we got 24 inches of heavy wet snow. While snow is usually not a problem when the leaves have not fallen — it was. We had no street power or internet for 171 hours. [...]
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We all agreed to a certain amount of tracking when we signed up for EZ-Pass service. This service allows us to pass along toll roads without having to stop or even slow down in some areas. The RFID technology embedded in the E-Z Pass transceiver provides the information necessary for E-Z Pass to bill our [...]
Tags: E-ZPass·High-occupancy vehicle lane·Kapsch·New York·OnStar·RFID·Toll road·United States
Jobs aren’t quite what they were – even in the tech industry where the unemployment rate for technology jobs was 3.3% in June, compared with a 9.2% unemployment rate overall that month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the most recent edition of its Occupational Outlook Handbook, the BLS said it expects IT [...]
Tags: Apple·Bureau of Labor Statistics·Google·Motorola·Motorola Mobility·Occupational Outlook Handbook·Patent·Patent portfolio
The days of the friendly London Bobby strolling through a neighborhood, talking with passers-by and being offered the occasional tea are long gone. London’s residents have become the most monitored in the free world, as nearly 500,000 video cameras (some of which cost up to $50k each) and microphones are set throughout the city recording [...]
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Our cars are getting easier to use, coming stacked with features and, as it turns out, are becoming more and more vulnerable to attack. The integration of cellular phones into our phones and the country’s infrastructure is getting dangerous. Just this past week, Don Bailey revealed that he could use a simple text message to [...]
Tags: CNN·LAS VEGAS·Las Vegas Nevada·Mobile phone·Text messaging·Vehicle door·Wardriving·Zoombak
We’ve long known that the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies are able to obtain wire taps to monitor suspected criminal behavior on telephones and internet connections. In recent years they’ve even been able to do some monitoring without court order via the Patriot Act. In a recently de-classified document, the FBI acknowledges that the wireless [...]
Tags: 4G·FBI·Federal Bureau of Investigation·LTE·Law enforcement agency·PGP·Pretty Good Privacy·Security·Voice over IP·WikiLeaks
Hey, the budget deficit is only in the Trillions of dollars. Why not throw a little money to start-up engineers in the hope that it’ll spur the economy. Too little, too late? Not government’s job? Starting this September at Standford University, the Innovation Corps program will give $50k to each of 100 new “start-up” companies [...]
Tags: Business·Colleges and Universities·Education·Feds·MBA·Master of Business Administration·Money·Startup company
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