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Until recently, when confronted with a very limited budget for a critical task that had to be completed yesterday, you had few options. You could face mutiny by squeezing more person-hours from your staff or else turn to budget-busting temp agencies. … Continue reading →

Ubiquitous high-speed mobile connectivity is spawning new industries and allowing existing industries to become more productive. These services and others yet to be developed will enable entrepreneurs, consumers, non-profit organizations, and government to interact and build better businesses and stronger … Continue reading →

I’m been trying to keep up with multiple stories (Sprint-Clearwire “4G”,  Harbinger Capital’s nationwide LTE network , iPad) while running around tending other assignments.  No, I don’t have much of a smartphone,  more of a Bronze-age artifact that came with … Continue reading →

We’re going to roll out something that we think is appropriate not just for Twitter users but also for the ecosystem. When we develop this monetization platform , it’s not going  to just be for us, it will actually extend … Continue reading →

Image from Gizmodo I am very  excited about the new Sprint 4G phone revealed at CTIA 2010: a mashup of Android OS-CDMA-WiFi-WiMAX and encased in an HTC Evo package (see  more sexy pictures here). It should be available this summer. … Continue reading →

I spent part of a long rainy afternoon two weekends ago slaying a Giant with a small pebble. No, it wasn’t a new video game. The Giant is the large connected component that can crop up in random graphs. Random … Continue reading →

UTOPIA is a good candidate to partner with Google in the new project and to bring the experiment to well-prepped ground. UTOPIA has successfully pursued models of deployment and found a sustainable and reliable model.

In the National Broadband Plan, there is hardly any mention of a wholesale or “unbundled” model of fiber-to-the-home. That’s unfortunate. There are many examples of successful deployments of fiber in which the physical part is built by the public sector … Continue reading →

About two years ago while researching a blog post on crowdsourcing, I discovered Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. As a  crowdsourced labor solution, the Turk completely turns around the relationship between computers and people.  Instead of asking silicon to perform complex … Continue reading →

At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Freescale was showing off what its chips can do. Freescale’s 7″ tablet reference architecture was meant to inspire manufacturers. And to my eyes, I think they’ll generate lots of interest. Since CES, they’ve … Continue reading →