Welcome to Tech Planet 3, a technology blog with an emphasis on mobile devices and audio/video computing. My background is in computer software but technology is much more than that, so I will also touch on other emerging areas including green technologies and biotech.

The blog name, incidentally, is taken from the Arthur C. Clarke book Report on Planet 3, a collection of speculative essays published in 1982. In the book Clarke accurately predicts satellite communications (for which he is generally given credit) and the Internet. My copy is long gone and the book is out of print but it’s worth a read even today. You can pickup a used copy on Amazon. In addition to tracking the state of the industry and in keeping with the spirit of Clarke’s book, the blog will track not just where we are but where we are going, and the impacts it is having and will have.

If you're in the Boston area, use the blog to check for interesting events in a number of a organizations including Mobile Monday Boston and the Massachusetts Network Communications Council. If you’re outside the area, come here for insight into the industry in general and Boston tech in particular. Some of the good stuff coming up includes Emerging IPTV Trends: IPTV Enables Everyone to Become a Media Company! at Mass Net Comms this Thursday, Oct 18th, and the Fall VON IP Communications Conference in Boston from Oct 29-Nov 1st, where Mass Net Comms and Boston Mobile Monday will be holding meetings.

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