Chad Dotson – Page 22 – Computer Scientist / Software Engineer

Bringing the Internet to the Far Reaches of the World

By chad January 10, 2009TechnologyNo Comments

I found a semi interesting video this morning on CNN. It has to do with a company's plan to bring the internet to the farest reaches of the world via satellite. It is supposed to be low cost and affordable. Personally, I don't know what the business model looks like…

Ubiquity Prototype

By chad December 30, 2008TechnologyNo Comments

There is a new extension in the works for Firefox called Ubiquity. It brings natural language command line interaction to any webpage. Its pretty groundbreaking. Below is the video from vimeo. Its really worth watching. Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. Website: Ubiquity at Mozilla Labs

Mozilla Firefox in Danger

By chad December 30, 2008TechnologyNo Comments

Last night I installed the latest version of Opera (9.63) in response to a bug report. I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with this version. The problems I'd noticed with previous versions (primarily it being slow as Christmas) are gone. Firefox now has something to be concerned about in…