Digital Literacy Project» Walt Mossberg http://digitalliteracyproject.com Technology Training For The Automotive Service Industry Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:36:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Automotive Wi-Fi Reviewed by Walt Mossberg http://digitalliteracyproject.com/2009/02/28/automotive-wi-fi-reviewed-by-walt-mossberg/% http://digitalliteracyproject.com/2009/02/28/automotive-wi-fi-reviewed-by-walt-mossberg/%#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:40:03 +0000 Grant Swaim http://digitalliteracyproject.com/?p=377 The AutoNet Mobile in-car WiFi, has been around for a while now, and is even being offered as a dealer installed option for most Chrysler models. It was just a matter of time before it would make it to the attention of “main stream” geeks and get a review from the Wall Street Journal’s Personal Technology Columnist, Walt Mossberg.

Walt reviewed the unit in late 2008 and found the service to be a good solution to mobile email and web surfing but too slow to handle anything like streaming videos.

AutoNet Mobile recently partnered with Delphi in an effort to harden the design of their wireless router and to sell the technology straight to the manufacturers to use as an OEM option, not a dealer installed option.

You can read Walt’s full review on the WSJ site, here.

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]]> http://digitalliteracyproject.com/2009/02/28/automotive-wi-fi-reviewed-by-walt-mossberg/%/feed 0 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Interview http://digitalliteracyproject.com/2009/02/15/bill-gates-and-steve-jobs-interview/% http://digitalliteracyproject.com/2009/02/15/bill-gates-and-steve-jobs-interview/%#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:10:50 +0000 Grant Swaim http://digitalliteracyproject.com/?p=154 On June 27th Bill Gates said good bye to his colleagues at Microsoft as he officially “retired”. He now plans to work full time with his foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has gone on record as saying he plans to give virtually all his fortune away. Hum… Start and run a company that produces a good product at a fair price, make a fortune and then give it away to try and make the world a better place. Now that is capitalism at its best!

If you are involved in computers you know tie significance of this man. He, and a hand full of other “geeks”, started the development of the modern day computer systems just a little over 30 years ago. Bill Gates and his counterpart at Apple, Steve Jobs, were the early pioneers and still have a lot of input into future digital technologies.

On May 30, 2007 these two men were interviewed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at the “All Things Digital Conference” also know as D5. I personally found it fascinating to listen to these two men talk about the future of the computer industry. I think it gives us an idea of what to expect in the way of upcoming digital systems. It is only logical that many of the technologies they talk about will make their way into the automotive industry.

For those true geeks (like me) I have a link below to the transcript of the Gates / Jobs Interview along with the full audio and a highlights video.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Interview

Transcript

Download the MP3 File

Download audio file (Jobs_Gates_D5_Conf.mp3)

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