We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds …
The Google ISP
Yesterday the Official Google Blog revealed plans for a 1 Gig fiber-to-the-home network. Their project sounds almost tentative and in the spirit of knowledge for …
Winter 2010, New Jersey
The scene at the feeder. It was busier earlier. I think the birds have finally decided it’s bad flying weather.
There’s a Scuba Diver in My Street View
Residents of Rugdeveien Street in Bergen, Norway had this reaction to Google Street View:
Globally, mobile data traffic will double every year through 2013, increasing 66x between 2008 and 2013. Mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of …
Skype Will Add Wideband Audio for iPhone
Skype is taking its time with a VoIP app that exploits the recently unlocked 3G data channel on the iPhone. But they have a pretty …
Kia's Super Bowl Ad
Who can resist sock puppets and robots? I also found myself enjoying this one from Kia:
Google's Super Bowl Ad
Incredibly effective and strangely moving. It brought a strong emotional connection to the mundane act of entering keywords. The ad is saying Google is more …
Unsurprisingly, millions of consumers turned to social networks including Twitter to discuss their favorite ads. According to social media monitoring service Trendrr, the four top …
Skype is Your Next Office Phone System
Will Skype be assumed into Avayatel? Or will it stand on its own in the Silver Lake portfolio and transform into an IPO butterfly? Bloomberg.com …
Google Video Killed the Web Experience
About a year ago, I was momentarily entranced by blended reality— a hybrid of Second Life-style virtual reality and, er, reality. Rather than building graphical …
AT&T's 3G Network Cracks Open
AT&T reversed course and decided to allow Sling Media’s iPhone app to run on its network. The app was previously viewed as a congestion hog, …
Stuff like MSN, the XBox, the Zune, and MS Mobile are failed attempts to expand into other markets, but basically irrelevant spawn of Flight Simulator. …
Indomitable Twitter
In a recent article, The Times’ media writer David Carr is convinced (as am I) that twitter will endure. He gives simple reasons why this …
Our outstanding Q2 results exceeded our expectations and we believe they provide a clear indication that we are entering the second phase of the economic …
Beauty is Truth (or Complicated Formulas)
Here I am trying to find beauty in spreadsheets, and Nikki Graziano discovers hidden formulas in nature. Take a look at Nikki’s mashup of nature …
Anonymity = The Internet
You can’t have the Internet without anonymity. In fact, privacy protection is designed into the lowest levels of the plumbing, which supports communication without revealing …
Strogatz is Blogging at The Times
Cornell mathematician Steve Strogatz is writing posts for The New York Times’ Opinionator blog. He’s better known to some through the Watts-Strogatz small world model …
VoIP and iGadgets
Remember the iPhone? It’s like a smaller version of the iPad. Anyway, the tech press is all over the news that Apple unlocked VoIP calling …
The written word seems so horribly low tech. It hasn’t changed much for a few millennia, at least since the ancient Greeks invented symbols for …