The American Institute for Economic Research, a non-profit, compiled the College Destination Index , which ranks the nation’s top cities for college students to live. After San Francisco and New York, our beloved Washington, D.C., is nominated the best city for college kids in the country.
The AIER selected the top 75 cities for the index from 222 metropolitan statistical areas with at least 15,000 students.
The rankings are based on 12 criteria, including student diversity, cost of living and unemployment rate. Read more of this post
Remember the movie, Minority Report back in 2002? It is about to become a reality in Washington, D.C. The Nation’s Capital will soon be using the software that is expected to reduce the murder rate as well as other crime rates. If it works, this is an amazing development. Read more of this post
Awesome Washington D.C.: There are few more historical places to see fireworks than Washington D.C. (and by “few” we mean Boston and Philadelphia). Thomas Jefferson hosted the first official Fourth of July celebration on the lawn of his mansion more than 200 years ago and now fireworks soar over the D.C. skyline each year as the National Symphony commemorates our independence.
Those of you in Social Media or Technology space, here is the list of related global events for the summer you might be interested in attending including a few of them in Washington, D.C.:
June 21-23, 2010, Denver, CO: Hosted by WebmasterRadio.FM, AffCon 2010 is a conference series designed specifically to meet the needs of affiliate marketers. As such, admission is FREE for all working affiliates to attend! Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to meet and share ideas with the brightest business people in the affiliate marketing industry. Pulling together an amazing lineup of session panelists and speakers (including super affiliates), AffCon 2010 – Denver also features an exhibit hall, general and targeted skills sessions, networking and WebmasterRadio.FM’s epic AffiliateBash. Get registered today! Read more of this post
byKamran Abdi It was just earlier this year a report came out that positioned DC as the most expensive place for office rental in the nation even topping the NYC. According to a new quarterly report from Cushman & Wakefield, the office market in the District’s central business district is showing signs of stabilizing, and rental rates last quarter were down from a year ago.
Average rents in Washington’s central business district were $47.07 per square foot, the second-highest in the nation, topped only by Midtown New York at $61.93. Average rents in the first quarter in D.C. were down 7.5 percent from a year earlier. read more…
byElias Shams Blogging from high-speed Acela Express train heading to NYC from DC using my laptop and Android phone. Using my Android phone, I just read about Amtrak’s launch of their Wi-Fi service called AmtrakConnect aboard 20 of their high-speed Acela Express trains available to passengers in business and first classes. So, I immediately pulled out my laptop to give it a try. What do you know? I could get on the internet using their Wi-Fi via my laptop.
Unfortunately, it’s not working quite well. It takes such a long time for the pages to load. When they do finally load there are lots of errors, missing pictures, etc. So, I am switching back and forth between my Android using T-Mobile 3G network and my laptop. Frankly, my Android is much faster. I wonder how their Internet access network is set up. Is it the WiMAX as backhaul or some other type? Anyone? Read more…
In this crappy economy, not sure how they pulled it off, but good for them. Before, I start yapping about this, you need to know what Clearwire offers and what it is for us.
They provide fourth-generation wireless services called WiMax stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access – something cooler, faster, and more mobile than Wi-Fi. I don’t think Wi-Fi is even mobile. WiMax is supposed to be super fast, so that you can stream TV, watch movies, play online games and video chat on the go and at home. Here is a simple explanation of WiMax:
Clearwire is currently in 14 markets including Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland, and Seattle. I don’t mean to offend people in those cities, but they are mostly second-tier markets. What’s disappointing about Sprint NextelClearwire thing is the absence of WiMax services in Washington, D.C. After all, I think all the Sprint NextelWiMax thing started from Reston, VA. Hello!!!!
D.C was supposed to get service shortly after Sprint launched its first market, Baltimore, last October. Now the Washington offering appears to be off the table until 2010. Clearwire plans to launch the 4G service in D.C through their partnership with Sprint’s Xohm WiMax 4G service. I have already spotted a couple of their antennas up in small part of D.C, but not sure that they’re open for business yet.
What I am worried is their rival technology LTE (Long Term Evolution) supported by other major telecom companies like Verizon Wireless which is planning to begin LTE deployment before the end of the year. AT&T also plans to do the same. The big advantage of WiMax being the first mover, a lead of a year and a half over deployments of rival LTE technology.
I am personally believer in the power of the 3GPP roadmap from GSM to WCDMA, to HSPA, to LTE because of the ecosystem that it carries with it. Based on what I’ve learned about Existing Mobile operators over the last five years or so – there is a clear operational, capex, and marketing advantage for the incumbent mobile operators. At a technology level – there are some advantages for LTE over WiMax on uplink performance. The time it has taken Clearwire to acquire their current subscribers all these years, it will probably take At&T to sell that many iPhones in a few weeks. So, I think WiMax will be a nice niche technology for DSL extension and in some countries where better spectrum is made available. The 3.65 and 2.5GHz bands here in the US will make it impossible to compete with a mobile operator with LTE at 700MHz.
As for the cost, they plan to charge us from $30 to $45 per month. I will certainly stay on top of this and keep you all posted.
The American Institute for Economic Research, a non-profit, compiled the College Destination Index , which ranks the nation’s top cities for college students to live. After San Francisco and New York, our beloved Washington, D.C., is nominated the best city for college kids in the country.
Elias Shams
Kamran Abdi
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