by JAM | Aug 29, 2014 | Hispanicise, jobs, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Skills, Sprint
In just the first couple of weeks of being Sprint CEO, 43-year-old Marcelo Claure has cut prices, unveiled new data plans — and he is doing so with a keen eye on Latino mobile users. Claure, the son of a Bolivian diplomat who moved to the U.S. in the 1990s, is now...
by JAM | Aug 26, 2014 | LISTA
Like all college and university faculty, August means finalizing fall syllabi and lesson plans, and pre-reading articles for fall courses. For many professors, this process includes thinking (or rethinking) on how to leverage social media to engage students in the...
by JAM | Aug 6, 2014 | #techlatino247, Diversity, LISTA, LISTA in the News
Sprint and its parent company SoftBank have decided not to pursue an acquisition of T-Mobile US according to multiple reports. And the country’s third largest operator is reportedly ready to replace CEO Dan Hesse with Marcelo Claure, the head of mobile phone...
by JAM | Aug 2, 2014 | #techlatino247, Broadband, digital media, Diversity, FCC, HTTP, Kapor, LISTA, LISTA in the News, net neutrality, Policy, spectrum, USHCC
Latinos in Information Science and Technology Association (LISTA) applaud the Federal Commission Communications, the agency responsible for oversight of the nation’s communications system, for its timely and promising circulation of a proposed rule making on the...
by JAM | Jul 23, 2014 | #techlatino247, Cesar Chavez, FCC, HTTP, LISTA, Title II
Starting out as a real volunteer with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in California during my college days, spending 17 years in elected office, working countless initiatives to better our communities and now serving on the Board of Directors of MALDEF, I was at first...
by JAM | Jul 22, 2014 | #techlatino247, Big data, digital media, Facebook, LISTA, USHCC
New Census Bureau data estimate that the U.S. Hispanic population reached 54 million as of July 1, 2013, and it is no surprise that there is much talk about the power of the Hispanic voters and their impact on the upcoming midterm elections. From the Obama campaign’s...
