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TiDev Titanium Has Day 0 Compatibility with iOS 26 — Other Mobile Frameworks Not So Lucky
When Apple unveiled iOS 26 and its sweeping new “Liquid Glass” UI design, many developers braced for impact. Major version jumps like this often send cross-platform frameworks scrambling to catch up, forcing developers to wait weeks or months for SDK updates, patches, and compatibility fixes. But for one framework — TiDev Titanium — iOS 26…
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AT&T’s War on CBRS: How Corporate Overreach Threatens America’s National Security
While Americans were locked down during COVID, a new kind of Cold War accelerated — not one fought with bombs or bullets, but with silicon, algorithms, and data. The artificial intelligence arms race is underway. China knows it. Russia knows it. And recent battlefield innovations in Ukraine have shown just how fast AI-powered warfare is…
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You’ve Got Trees. You’ve Got Terrain. You Can’t Afford Tarana.
When you’re up against brutal terrain — dense trees, heavy forests, and tough topography — wireless internet deployment options narrow fast. You either pay for expensive licensed spectrum or turn to CBRS, a public-use radio band that delivers the signal strength needed to punch through obstructions and bring rural broadband and edge devices online. For…
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Alabama’s Internet Exchange: The MGMix Story
I recently joined Tony Porterfield, CTO for the City of Montgomery, at ALANOG-6 for a deep-dive “fireside” conversation about the MGMix — Alabama’s first and only city-owned Internet Exchange Point (IXP). CLICK HERE TO WATCH OUR FIRESIDE PRESENTATION MGMix (Montgomery Internet Exchange) was originally launched in 2016 enabling network operators with a presence at the…
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Artificial Intelligence Arrives On The Surveillance Grid
For the first time in years yesterday I once again graced the doors of Birmingham’s Innovation Depot. This lovely startup incubation space was the venue for the 3rd “Breakfast Club” event I’ve attended hosted by local software development firm Daring Bit Assembly – this is a monthly “mixer” event where technology professionals meet to chat…
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Lead Generation With AI, Powered By Zapier
Today I attended a webinar hosted by Jane Zhang from Zapier’s product marketing team. The focus was on Zapier’s new AI agent offering, with the webinar providing some real concrete examples of how AI agents can help a business with their lead generation efforts. There’s a lot of buzz, hyperbole, and misinformation in this space…
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Decentralizing the Internet: The Case for Stronger IXPs in Alabama
The “Cloud”, for all the marketing lingo and buzzwords flying around about it, is actually quite simple. At it’s core, the Cloud is simply computers connected across diverse areas and networks. That’s it. There’s no incantations or magic spells holding our digital age together – though on second thought, the engineers that design and keep…
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Fellowship With The Titans
A gentle fog hung over Birmingham, Alabama this morning – visible as far as the eye could see from the 20th floor of the immaculate John Hand building. Industry and commerce humming about below the club floor powered by technology our ancestors couldn’t fathom in 1912 when this building joined Birmingham’s emerging skyline. The innovations…
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Join the REVOLUTION, Self-host Your Content!
I grew up on a more open internet. It wasn’t perfect, but generally speaking, gatekeepers were significantly less common than they are today. On the 2025 version of the internet – algorithms/AI and corporate hucksters get to be the primary gatekeepers of information. If a post isn’t shared on Facebook, X, or Reddit – likely…
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When Fiber Fails, Wireless To The Rescue
Pictures are worth a thousand words – and this one has a story indeed. Shown in the center is a Mimosa ethernet NID. It’s connected to an outdoor wireless internet CPE used for this customer to get internet. It was part of a recent install where a customer upgraded from unreliable fiber internet to Lightwave…