Apr 05
If the Internet has proved one thing about human nature, it’s that it’s possible to hold a megaphone up to stupidity. Peruse discussion boards and reader comments at news sites, and you’ll find a seemingly endless stream of obnoxious, half-baked and incendiary comments. Of course, social media pushes the concept to the equivalent of Spinal …
Apr 03
When it comes to social media, the old adage, “build it and they will come” simply doesn’t apply. Putting up a Facebook page and creating a Twitter or YouTube account just isn’t enough. In order for businesses to use social media effectively, they must leverage it by building it into their business processes to truly …
Apr 02
While many continue to find issue with the content available on broadcast television, the emergence of new programming online is appearing to satiate those who desire to be entertained, yet not at the expense of depth, dimension, or even an opportunity to be educated. The ‘New Wave’: Public Purpose Content Public purpose content is a …
Apr 02
America’s obsession with various high tech innovations such as the smartphone and tablet, and its “got-to-have-an-app-for-everything” attitude, has led to the demand and creation of about 500,000 apps and apparently, just as many jobs. Last week, TechNet, a bipartisan network of CEOs and Senior Executives that promotes the growth of technology- led innovation, released a …
Mar 30
Six years after Cisco Systems bought Scientific Atlanta, high-tech giant Cisco says its metro Atlanta acquisition is critical to its efforts to profit off the rising tide of video streaming around the globe. Cisco has “a huge commitment to video,” John Chambers, Cisco’s longtime CEO and chairman, said in a telephone interview recently after talking …
Mar 30
Last October Sprint officially announced their plans to upgrade to LTE, noting they hoped to cover 123 million “pops” (potential users) with LTE by the end of 2012, and 250 million by the end of 2013. Speaking at the Rural Cellular Association meeting this week in Orlando, Sprint’s network VP Bob Azzi stated they’ve got …
Mar 28
James Cicconi knows whom T-Mobile workers should blame for their company’s recently announced layoffs: the FCC. Cicconi who serves as AT&T’s senior executive vice president for external and legislative affairs, wrote a post for AT&T’s Public Policy blog today that again attacked the FCC for its role in shooting down the failed $39 billion merger …
Mar 26
On behalf of the Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association (LISTA) and its Board of Directors, we would like to congratulate LISTA President and CEO Jose A. Marquez-Leon for being selected one of Politic365 Game Changers 2012 Non Profit Leader. The Politic365 Game Changers 2012 Awards honored the top 365 bi-partisan, multi-cultural minority business …
Mar 08
LISTA, HTTP and our members often discuss the transformative potential of technology. We promote technology, innovation and broadband connectivity because it empowers communities, reveals new possibilities, and changes lives. But technology can also improve health, quality of care – and save lives while saving the health care system dollars. Health IT has had a dramatic …
Mar 07
As it appeared in the Huffington Post. You almost certainly have a cell phone (83 percent of Hispanics do, according to a recent study), and it’s probably a smartphone with capabilities far beyond talking and texting. Perhaps you use it for social networking, checking the weather or sports, or games. But have you thought about …
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