FCC Workshop On Expanding Disability Access

27 04 2010

Folks..

The title of workshop is "EXPANDING DISABILITY ACCESS WITH WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES".

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-297706A1.pdf

Quotes:

Mobile communications access issues facing people with disabilities and the disparities in technology access.
*  Ways in which new technologies can offer opportunities to meet the communications access needs of people with disabilities.
*  Technology demonstrations of advanced mobile communications.

Workshop to be held on May 13, 2010, from 10:30 am to 4:00 pm. 

Encourage your Mover and Shakers of the Deaf/HOH World to attend this.  

Should be interesting…

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed



Captioning on BlackBerry?

29 03 2010

Folks..

And it is free.  So media folks have no excuse to say technology problems.  

"..today announced a new version of its popular do-it-yourself caption-authoring tool for digital media.."

"..which can be used to create closed-captioned videos formatted for playback on BlackBerry® smartphones. As before, authors can continue to write captions once and export them to formats compatible with QuickTime, Windows Media, RealPlayer and Flash."

WGBH

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

Long Link: http://ncam.wgbh.org/about/news/ncam-and-research-in-motion-en



In-Flight WiFi Becoming More Widespread

16 03 2009

Folks,

Having Internet connections while flying on a plane is way cool!    Makes me wonder if video chats would be possible?   Hope so, but this article did not say anything about video conference, though.  Talks about having access to Internet while flying. 

Article WIFI on Plane

Not free, though. 

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed



Faster and Faster Still

10 03 2009

Folks,

You have heard lot of media news that USA is lagging far behind rest of the world for fastest broadband speeds.  Well this article is sorta a reality check and assess the circumstances realistically.  Turns out that we’re not too bad after all.  

Broadband Speeds

Biggest reason why we’re "behind" is simply we’re big country.   Most of Europe countries are densly packed.  

Click to this and be proud of being an American after all…

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed