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I was at a fundraiser last night for the charity Best Buddies — a group that aims to help mentally disabled people by providing opportunities for friendship and employment. The group is run by Anthony Shriver, the brother of California’s

San Francisco and a number of other cities are considering getting into the broadband business, but that would be a disaster for consumers, small business, and communities. Read the Municipal Broadband Compact here and PRI’s comments to SF city here.

The 9th Annual Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference took place this week at Lake Tahoe. Officially, the theme was “the Singularity,” an artificial intelligence term denoting the emergence of transformative technological change. But the main meme revolved around a slightly less sexy

Chinese officials recently announced they will no longer consider death tolls and other relevant information about natural disasters to be state secrets. On the same day, China Telecom blocked Internet phone service from Skype. That left observers wondering whether freedom

China is not exactly a place where trademarks are effective, but nevertheless a Chinese bioscience company has registered trademarks for the new condoms it will make and sell. The names of the two condoms? Clinton and Lewinsky. Priceless.

The world’s oldest person is 115 years old, and while that might seem impressive, it’s only the beginning. Advances in technology are poised to usher in longer and better life spans, a reality the general public has been slow to

This is a neat tool to estimate how long you will live based on your habits and family history. And if you take into account the fact that it makes its predictions based on *today’s* technology, things are really looking

I was at a party tonight where I met the “most important Matt in the world,” according to Google. The 21-year-old works at Cnet, but he also happened to be the guy who created the software I’m blogging on. Thanks,

This editorial calling the Guardian’s editor and publisher on his “Brain Vomit” is enlightening and sharp. Bruce B. Brugmann must be really embarassed. A must read.

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is set to grow tenfold by 2010, but according to industry reports the leader won’t be the United States. Instead, countries such as China, France, and Italy are forecast to lead. It’s possible, however, that recent