On the topic of broadband – a piece of data that won’t shock anyone here in the U.S. From Ars Technica : The annoying trend holds true in both wired and wireless service. In the Cost of Connectivity 2013 report being released today by the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, researchers note that “in […]
< rant > I sometimes wonder if we need to take some real action to define “Broadband” and “High-Speed” internet services. The range of what is considered high-speed or broadband in the US seems to range from 768K DSL to 50 Mbps fiber. A good example is a flyer from at&t I received last week […]
How is it that in San Francisco, a city where everyone is online 24/7, we barely have anything close to fast broadband ? While in Japan “160 Mbps service costs 6,000 yen ($60) per month” ? The New York Times explores this with a piece tonight World’s Fastest Broadband at $20 Per Home The money […]
It uses social engineering: It’s accepted that one of the most costly elements of building out a fiber network is the physical labor associated with strong cable, digging trenches and hiring people to terminate the fiber into the home. Google has already strung cable on power lines throughout Kansas City and lowered those costs by […]
Way back in October of 2007, I wrote on this blog a post titled Waiting for Mac OS X Leopard: Why no digital download option ?, in which I asked: In today’s world of broadband and on-demand user behavior, why doesn’t apple offer a digital download option ? Fast forward about 4 years and it’s […]
I should preface this by saying there is nothing wrong really with Fedex/Kinkos today. It’s more that it dawned on me that 10 years ago I used to frequent a Kinkos about once a week back when I ran my own web agency in NY, and that today I can’t recall the last time I […]
Mozy to the rescue ! After the loss of my laptop and external HD, I was able to use the Mozy backup service to restore most of what I needed. I’ve been using Mozy for nearly 3 years, and this was really the first time I had to “use it” — so a few thoughts: […]
Very full day today meeting with government of Iraq officials and Embassy/US Military/State Department people. Getting a good sense as to the unique challenges that this country faces. A few things that jumped out re: mobile & connectivity: – Desperate need to improve internet connectivity. Right now about 5% of Iraq has internet access at […]
VentureBeat has a pretty interesting write-up on OnLive, a company that has been in stealth for 7 years and is founded by Steve Perlman of WebTV fame: “This is video gaming on demand, where we deliver the games as a service, not something on a disk or in hardware,” Perlman said. “Hardware is no longer […]
It really does feel that most applications are moving to the “cloud” especially in publishing and email. The other category of applications that is undergoing this transformation, in my opinion, appears to be photo editing. Picnik I’ve been using the web-based Picnik for a few months now to do what I had previously done with […]
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