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Keystone Business Solutions has launched a new blog.  You should already know this, as you’re reading it right now.  But we thought we’d tell you a little more about why we decided to launch a blog, and what we hope to be able to offer you here. 

For the uninitiated, a “blog” is short for a “weblog”–sort of an online journal.  There are all sorts of uses for blogs, but nearly all of them relate to creating another avenue of communication between you and your customers. 

For some time now, KBS has offered their moderately famous email newsletter, The Keynote, to those clients that wish to receive it.  The Keynote has evolved over time, to be sure, but we’re hopeful that we’ve always managed to consistently offer something interesting or useful to our clients.

The intention is for the Keystone Blog to become an extension of The Keynote, providing technology news that is sometimes fun, sometimes important, and always interesting.  Here are some examples of the kinds of stories we hope to bring you:

-In the near future…your plants will call you.  On the phone.  To tell you they need water. 

A company called Botanicalls is promising to bring gardening into the 21st century by merging technology with plant care.  They use what’s called a “soil moisture sensor” to determine when the water level has dropped too low.  Phase 2 of the project will see the ability for the plants to e-mail or send a text message. 

-You might think the world’s fastest internet connection would belong to some sort of serious video game player or perhaps a basement-dwelling hacker.  But you’d be wrong.  In fact, the world’s fastest internet connection apparently belongs to a 75-year-old Swedish woman. 

She can download full-length movies in less than 2 seconds with her 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection.  That’s fast; extremely fast.