Facebook seems to be quickly evolving to be the next Internet. If this takes off, I can’t see any limit to the way FB can integrate commerce.
Warner Bros. is turning to Facebook, where it hopes to find an electronic audience interested in digitally renting The Dark Knight
Last year June I switched from T-Mobile over to Sprint, primarily because at that moment, T-Mobile lacked both a 4G network and a really good Android phone. I got the Sprint EVO 4G and other than that absolutely crappy battery life, the service, the phone, and the data have been fabulous. Looks like I was a little ahead of my time because looks like T-Mobile is going to switch to Sprint too. This acquisition was floated around before so I’m not holding my breath, but if it does happen we as consumers will probably have some nicely expanded options. The rest of my family is still on T-mobile so if in fact this merger does happen we can all be one happy clan all over again.
Deutsche Telekom AG has held talks to sell its T-Mobile USA unit to Sprint Nextel Corp. in exchange for a major stake in the combined entity, said people with knowledge of the matter.
I can see Google really excelling in this feature, especially if they start networking all the Android phones in a car on a given route.
“You don’t have to do anything
The folks from Ars Technica do a pretty good job of product reviews. This one is quite exhaustive on the Motorola Xoom. My take: If I had to by a tablet TODAY I would get the iPad. If I was an Android junkie (which I am) and I could afford to wait, I would do so until the Android platform gets a scooch better
For those of you comparing the iPad2 vs. Motorola Zoom vs. HP Touchpad, here you go
First, go read my post about the recent speed increase for Road Runner subscribers.
Now, let’s talk.
What allows such incredible increase in quality with a precipitous drop in cost? We’ve come to expect this as the norm from the technology industry but no one asks why or how this is the case. Indeed, why does tech continue to make huge leaps year after year while many of our other key industries don’t seem to keep the pace?
While there are some inherent advantages that tech has over other industries (for example, it’s a lot easier to improve a wafer of silicon than it is to remake a power plant), the tech industry is also relatively free from burdening government regulations and control. You can start a tech business and sell any kind of products and services your mind can imagine to a global market in less than one hour. And if you succeed, chances are you’ll have 100 competitors in the next hour!
I believe it is this nearly perfect global market freedom that drives entrepreneurs to risk capital, invest in innovation, and continually serve their customers that makes the tech industry such a fabulous example of what happens when people are liberated to pursue their dreams and be rewarded in the service of others.
Always nice to get a speed boost. My friends at Oceanic gave me the “inside scoop” that their network upgrade is almost complete. A quick check to speedtest.net confirmed that my Hawaii Road Runner Broadband connection is cranking at 10mb down and 1mb up.
My download speed as measured by speedtest.net
We usually take these kinds of things for granted but allow me to contrast this to the not-so-distant past. I recall in 1993, just before the commercial Internet was just taking hold in Hawaii, UH had one of the few Internet connections. I recall being told that the entire UH campus, including all the community colleges share a single T-1 connection. A T-1 is 1.5mb/sec.
So in less than 2 decades, we’ve gone from 1.5mb to serve an entire University and its colleges to 6x the speed going to a single home.
Now, lets talk price. I recall in 2000 when my company CyberCom purchased a T-1 line for its business, the price was about $800/mo. Today, only 5 years later, I get 6x the download speed and about 2/3 the upload speed for 1/20th the cost.
The only word I have for that is: Amazing!
I always tell people to watch what they post on FB and watch who they friend. This is one of the many reasons why
Facebook is increasingly being used in courts to decide who is—and who isn’t—suitable to serve on a jury, the latest way in which the social-networking site is altering the U.S. court system.
I’ve definitely caught “Google Religion” over the past few years and have just about moved everything over to their infrastructure. I love Gmail and Calendar. I use an Android phone. Lately, I’ve been moving my documents into Google Docs and the transitions are pretty good. This is the next step. Google now lets you read in popular Microsoft and Adobe document formats.
This marks another important milestone in computer development. This goes beyond the HAL9000 in “2001 – A Space Odyssey” and its only 2011. We’ve been around long enough to know that there’s more computing power in the palm of your hand than there was in a room full of computers 25 years ago, so it makes sense to imagine that the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer of today will fit into your palm by 2030. I can’t wait for the future!
When I was selected as one of the two human players to be pitted against IBM’s “Watson” supercomputer in a special man-vs.-machine Jeopardy! exhibition match, I felt honored, even heroic. I envisioned myself as the Great Carbon-Based Hope against a new generation of thinking machines—which, if Hollywood is to believed, will inevitably run amok, build unstoppable robot shells, and destroy us all. But at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Lab, an Eero Saarinen-designed fortress in the snowy wilds of New York’s Westchester County, where the shows taped last month, I wasn’t the hero at all. I was the villain.
