Technology:

All Tangled Up, February 18, 2008
I took some time today to review what all I pay currently for land-line telephone service, satellite television and high-speed Internet service, in order to compare it to bundled packages available from competitors such as Comcast, and in addition to...

Starbucks to Offer Free-ish Wi-Fi, February 12, 2008
Customers at Starbucks across the nation will have free wireless access later this year, through a deal with AT&T. Well, sort of "free." You'll have to have an "active Starbucks gift card" to get 2 hours of free wi-fi access...

Quiet Ride, January 19, 2008
Here's a driving review of the Honda FCX Clarity, the world's first production-model hydrogen-fueled car. One thing that struck me as I watched it: the world, especially urban and suburban environments, will be a lot quieter once mostly-silent hydrogen fuel-cell...

Theft of Nashville Election Commission Laptops Highlights Need for Voter Photo ID Law, December 29, 2007
The Tennessean reports on a new state law effective New Year's Day designed to make it harder for criminals to snatch Social Security numbers.The law bans companies, nonprofit groups and even government agencies in most cases from sending mailings containing...

What'll They Think Of Next..., December 23, 2007
This is the Eye-Fi memory card for digital cameras that take SD-format cards. My camera takes Compact Flash cards, so I can't use it, but I wish I could. It's got built-in wi-fi. That's right, the little Eye-Fi card has...

Meet George Jetson..., December 21, 2007
Is this 300-mpg hybrid (gas-electric) car in your future? (Full story from Popular Mechanics here....

Adapting Copyright Laws to the Dynamic Digital Age, October 27, 2007
Vanderbilt University has published video podcasts from a conference two weeks ago at Vanderbilt Law School on the topic Adapting copyright laws to today's dynamic digital age; How file sharing, podcasting, internet video and other high tech trends are impacting...

Wired Fires, October 27, 2007
Wired looks at the role that info-tech played during the Southern California wildfires....

Freeze-Dried Funerals, September 21, 2007
At Ecotality Life today: A Swedish company's new eco-friendly funeral process may give life, literally, to the phrase "pushing up daisies."...

Learning Machines, August 8, 2007
A Nashville-area tech company has received a patent on software that learns as it works. Digital Reasoning Systems, based in Brentwood, TN, received patent #7,249,117 for its "Knowledge Discovery Agent System and Method," which the company touts as offering "a...

Why Can't Cell Phones Record Their Own Calls?, June 5, 2007
Yesterday's surprise phone interview with Sen. Lamar Alexander sent me looking today for a cheap technology that would allow me to digitally record calls to my cell phone. While Sen. Alexander's office was able to record the call and send...

Scrap the Net?, April 18, 2007
Is it time to scrap the Internet?...

Colleges Try Cell Phones, YouTube To Get Word Out, March 20, 2007
But are the students paying attention? At Belmont University a few years ago, many students rarely checked their campus email account. Now, it appears they don't want university text messages on their cell phones. We never really solved the problem...

A Bad Idea, March 3, 2007
The Bush administration needs to be smacked down hard for this terrible idea....

Something Wiki This Way Comes, February 21, 2007
One of my favorite things to arrive regularly in my email inbox is Knowledge@Wharton, a weekly round-up of mind-expanding information from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and the latest edition is no exception. It includes...

Houston Clicks with Wireless Internet Project, February 14, 2007
The city of Houston has struck a deal with EarthLink Inc. to build a citywide wireless Internet network that would eventually cover about 600 square miles, in a deal that won't cost city taxpayers a dime. Houston joins more than...

Race Drivers Start Your Hydrogen Fuel Cells, January 12, 2007
New today over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: Meshing sports and technology with a new Hydrogen Electric Racing Federation that hopes to race at the famed Indy track...

Coming Soon: Robots That Blog, August 31, 2006
I don't have an Xbox 360 and don't want one. And if I did want one, I wouldn't want it to blog....

I Want One, June 20, 2006
My next laptop. Or not, as my Dell 700m is barely a year old....

The first photo blog by a robot dog, January 7, 2006
By Ben Cunningham The first photo blog by a robot dog. Technology just keeps marching forward....

Best New Medical Technology Blog IMO, January 6, 2006
By Ben Cunningham Best New Medical Technology Blog: Medgadget. Also, very well designed layout and graphics, simple but interesting....

BellSouth's Customer Disservice, January 2, 2006
Regular readers of this blog know that I have, intermittently, had problems getting my Westell DSL modem from BellSouth and my Linksys wireless router to play nice together. After having dealt with BellSouth's tech support, and Linksys' tech support, on...

A Hot Idea, December 8, 2005
If you're an inventor or scientist looking for a good idea to pursue, I had one while driving to work this morning on a highway coated with salt brine in an effort to prevent the coming sleet and snow from...

No hip or knee replacements for "fat people", November 23, 2005
By Ben Cunningham No more hip or knee replacements for "FAT people..." says the British National Health Service in East Suffolk. Cost too much. The article says a fifth of the men and a quarter of the women are obese...

Gallatin Police Chief Wants Red Light Cameras, November 22, 2005
By Ben Cunningham Another Tennessee city looking at red light cameras: "Gallatin Police Chief John Tisdale will ask City Council members to authorize requests for proposals from red light camera vendors in a meeting Tuesday."...

A Google Sunrise, October 4, 2005
This will make things interesting....

Loathing Linksys, September 28, 2005
At home, my desktop PC, a Gateway that has given me zero problems since I bought it three years ago, is connected to the 'net via Westell DSL modem from BellSouth. As I also have a Dell Inspiron 700m laptop...

Accelerating the Internet, June 5, 2003
No doubt, Hollywood is already drafting the lawsuits and the legislation to try to stop this technology from ever reaching the mass market:>Scientists in California are working on a fast new Internet connection system that could enable an entire movie...