Google Fiber is the best of what Google claims to represent. The citizens of Kansas City sure are lucky:
"It’s easy to forget how revolutionary high-speed Internet access was in the 1990s. Not only did broadband kill the screeching sound of dial-up, it also spurred innovation, helping to create amazing new services as well as new job opportunities for many thousands of Americans. But today the Internet is not as fast as it should be. While high speed technology exists, the average Internet speed in the U.S. is still only 5.8 megabits per second (Mbps)—slightly faster than the maximum speed available 16 years ago when residential broadband was first introduced."
It's too bad that government bureaucracies dictated by mega corporations make this type of progress so difficult in the USA. South Korea's average household internet speed is 17.5Mbps. A 100Mbps connection in South Korea costs only $38 a month. Sheesh.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
Show me the money, Microsoft
Reuters reports:
The world's largest software company, whose stock remains mired around $30, had prepared a multi-pronged assault to try and break into the crucial mobile computing space this year and take Apple Inc and Google Inc down a peg. But on Monday, it announced a $6.2 billion writedown of a 2007 Internet-advertising acquisition - a reminder that Microsoft has a patchy track record when it ventures outside of its Windows and Office comfort zone…
It was not the news agenda Microsoft had in mind as it prepared to unveil fourth-quarter results on July 19. The writeoff is expected to hand the company its first quarterly loss - on paper - since going public in 1986.
Holy cow.
The world's largest software company, whose stock remains mired around $30, had prepared a multi-pronged assault to try and break into the crucial mobile computing space this year and take Apple Inc and Google Inc down a peg. But on Monday, it announced a $6.2 billion writedown of a 2007 Internet-advertising acquisition - a reminder that Microsoft has a patchy track record when it ventures outside of its Windows and Office comfort zone…
It was not the news agenda Microsoft had in mind as it prepared to unveil fourth-quarter results on July 19. The writeoff is expected to hand the company its first quarterly loss - on paper - since going public in 1986.
Holy cow.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Communist Carriers
Nilay Patel over at the Verge has a great rundown on why you and I are stuck with the same three crappy cellphone carriers.
"The carriers have always been wary of ‘excessive' innovation in the mobile space because of the danger that it might make mobile service cheaper."
I would love to see the handset makers band together and give us a real, reliable, fast cell network. A true 4G network where they compete on the merits and quality of their products and not contract lock-in. I'd also like to see unicorns with jetpacks.
"The carriers have always been wary of ‘excessive' innovation in the mobile space because of the danger that it might make mobile service cheaper."
I would love to see the handset makers band together and give us a real, reliable, fast cell network. A true 4G network where they compete on the merits and quality of their products and not contract lock-in. I'd also like to see unicorns with jetpacks.
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