Traveling, whether for business or pleasure, always contain unexpected travel woes or expenses that can put a real damper on your trip. Luckily, new smartphone apps aim to help travelers save money and account for the unexpected. Here are some of our favorites: 1. TravelTracker Pro. Meant to be a personal travel assistant, this app [...]
Fans of the Olympic Games will be able to keep up with their favorite athletes during the London games next summer. The Olympic Committee has recently announced athletes will be free to actively tweet and use social media to record their experiences at the 2012 Summer Olympics. While athletes may be excited to document their [...]
Cisco’s annual Visual Networking Index has projected the increase use of Internet between 2014 and 2015 will be equivalent to all Internet traffic in 2010. The volume of Internet use will be so large by 2015, it will be comparable to downloading every movie ever made every five minutes. Internet use by mobile devices continues [...]
This week, committees of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Senate will hold hearings on telecom reform in Wisconsin. Hance Haney, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, published this blog post recently negating some of the myths and false assumptions of the bills that are before the committees. Haney wrote a report last year that showed [...]
The number of wireless-only households has increased 10 percent in two years, according to a federal report. The report says that about 25 percent of Wisconsin adults live in a wireless-only household. This is up from 15 percent two years ago. This study was done by the National Center for Health Statistics. The report covers [...]
In a world where online shopping and eco-friendly alternatives are increasingly popular, the e-book reader seems to be a sustainable option for book collectors to cut down on shelf space. But what about the original eco-friendly option – the public library? The future seems to be in e-book loans, but these are a hot topic [...]
The average laptop lasts about two years and, according to a group of students from Stanford University and Finland’s Aalto University, takes about “45 minutes and 120 steps” to disassemble for recycling once its short life is over.
The U.S. government recently launched 17 new mobile apps for a variety of different services and agencies, from the FBI’s Most Wanted to FEMA Mobile. With smartphones becoming increasingly popular and more information being absorbed on the go, it’s great news that the government is working with these platforms. Here are a few of our [...]
A previous blog discusses the Connecting Southwest Wisconsin Conference–the first regional broadband conference aimed at providing rural Wisconsin communities the tools they need to address the lack of broadband or high-speed internet access. On my way to the conference in Belmont from Milwaukee, I got a taste of what being unconnected is really like. Because [...]
Hearing more and more voices join the debate about stimulus dollars bringing broadband internet into rural areas, it is important that Wired Wisconsin offers our perspective as well. $7.2 billion dollars of the stimulus package has been allocated for broadband deployment.
Join the Discussion about Wisconsin’s Role in Wireless Technology Thursday, February 26, 2009 in Madison, Wisconsin .