Community Gardens – a walled garden with a cool handset

Do you remember when you couldn’t even send a text message outside your mobile operator’s network. These were very tall walled gardens, now operators have agreed to connect at least text messages, however as of today (Sep’09) many simple multi-media messages don’t get through to another operator, you have no idea they didn’t get delivered or sometimes get...

Network Fabrics targeted at First Responders & Interoperability

Interoperability between federal and local agencies is still a huge problem.The problem can best be summed up with an excerpt from the Department of Homeland Security dated 9/27/04: “Fact Sheet: Achieving First Responder Communications Interoperability – a Local, State, and Federal Partnership – The challenge of communications interoperability has plagued public safety agencies...

Over Connected and Overwhelmed

Every mobile and internet enabled user is different in their requirements for data, services and connectivity; yet every user shares one common problem of being over-connected and overwhelmed with choices and options. Look at this display of some of the thousands of information services and networks that you can join and require you to sign-up, give personal information, setup preferences, visit...