Will Workman

Yes, sometimes it’s useful to read your junk e-mail. Even a modest spam glutton can occasionally pick up whiffs of tech trends in the air.

In one rarefied moment, the future of broadband beckoned: it's mobile, it's hip, it's socially connected.

The original technology of broadband over powerline (BPL) appears to be reawakening.

Whenever an infant technology takes its first steps, you can't help rooting for it.

Cable goes from rural curiosity to dominant player

Question: How many studio executives does it take to change a lightbulb?

Quick quiz question: Can you name the recent event that drew Bill Gates, Michael Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Mark Cuban and Barbara Eden all on the same day?

They claim it's the largest private infrastructure investment in history: $65 billion. That's the amount the cable industry says it spent on plant upgrades between 1996 and 2002.

While it's been generating quite a static hum in recent years, WiMax, the new broadband wireless standard designed to work over wide areas, now appears to have a few 800-pound gorillas in its court

The prevailing question of today is: If we want more investment in broadband buildout, how do we achieve that and who pays?

If the evolution of broadband video content takes the path music did, then someday soon we will all be using the video equivalents of iPods and iTunes.

It's time to fess up--this tech is nowhere near ready for primetime consumer solutions. Its business applications are limited and its long-term ability to provide mobility is questionable.

"Every corner" of the United States will be high-speed wired. And that's supposed to happen by 2007, just two years away.

Journalism is dead in several senses that have everything to do with news audiences, not news providers.

His stated mandate is no different than that of his Republican predecessor: "To ensure that every American has access to open and robust broadband."

There's no doubt Barack Obama understands the Internet, even if, unlike Al Gore, he didn't invent it.