by JAM | Mar 28, 2012 | Broadband, DOL, jobs, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Mobile Health, Policy, wireless, Workforce Development
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...
by JAM | Mar 26, 2012 | Broadband, Foundation Work, inclusion, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Policy, Skills, Social Media, Workforce Development
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...
by JAM | Mar 7, 2012 | Broadband, DOJ, DOL, Foundation Work, Health Information Technology, Health IT, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Menus, Mobile Health, Policy, Social Media, spectrum, Tablets, wireless, Workforce Development
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,...
by JAM | Feb 22, 2012 | Broadband, Government, jobs, LISTA, Mobile Health, Social Media, spectrum, wireless, Workforce Development
The U.S. mobile phone industry is running out of the airwaves necessary to provide voice, text and Internet services to its customers. The problem, known as the “spectrum crunch,” threatens to increase the number of dropped calls, slow down data speeds and...
by JAM | Feb 20, 2012 | Government, jobs, LISTA, Workforce Development
First Apple, which has been under fire since a recently published New York Times expose of the harsh conditions at its Chinese manufacturing partners, asked the Fair Labor Association (FLA) to inspect those plants. Now the electronics giant has gone further, granting...
by JAM | Feb 15, 2012 | apps, jobs, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Skills, software development, Workforce Development
TechNet, the bipartisan policy and political network of technology CEOs that promotes the growth of the innovation economy, today released a new study showing that there are now roughly 466,000 jobs in the “App Economy†in the United States, up from zero in 2007....
