If your child (age 8 through 11) is interested in computers and programming, semo.net is offering a class in June. The course will cover the Scratch Programming Language for Kids and will be an entry level course. The class will be taught by Ben, Jack & Brian Becker.
I heard a statistic reported on the radio the other day that 30% of Americans believe that Entertainers and Pro Athletes should not make more than $1,000,000 a year. Kentucky's new head coach is to be paid $4,000,000 a year for the next eight years which pales in comparison to Pujols who gets paid $16,000,000 a year to play baseball. Pujols gets left in the dark when compared to the $58,000,000 Wil Smith reportedly received from the movie Hancock.
On the slate for topics this morning with Rick Carl & Company, we will be talking about: Conficker Virus The Conficker worm is a computer worm that can infect your computer and spread itself to other computers across a network automatically, without human interaction. If you have an updated version of an AntiVirus program, you should not be at risk. How Do I know if I have Conficker To quickly find out if your PC might be one of the millions infected by Conficker, try clicking to Microsoft.com, Symantec.com, and McAfee.com. If you can get to these sites, you're cool. But if your browser will not let you access any of these websites, then you very likely are infected with
Today was the announcement date for the partnership between semo.net and Mushroom Networks. We've been locally selling the Hydra Internet service since January, but the two companies recently struck a deal to bring Broadband Business solutions to Southeast Missouri. Touting that deal today are articles in Wall Street Journal and Telephony Magazine.
Missouri-based Internet Provider Re-brands Service Under the Moniker Hydra Internet Service Offering Reliable High-Speed Alternative to T1, Frame Relay or MPLS SAN DIEGO, CA – March 31, 2009 - Mushroom Networks, Inc., the innovator of broadband bonding technology, today announced a partnership with Semo.net, a Midwest Internet provider, to deliver high-speed bi-directional broadband service to its business class customers. Semo.net will re-brand Mushroom Networks’ popular Broadband Bonding solution into its own service offering called Hydra Internet Service. Hydra Internet Service offers business customers the ability to combine multiple types of broadband connections such as DSL, cable modem, or wireless into a single high-speed connection with near 100 percent reliability, download speeds of 10 Mbps, and upload speeds of 5 Mbps
