Cutting Cable Television
The wife and I decided to give up cable television in favor for streaming television via the internet. Pure on demand.
Here’s Part 1 of a video series, describing how we are doing it.
Click here to view it full screen.
There’s a smackdown for that.
And the hits just keep on rolling.
Verizon launched a series of attacks against AT&T, showing the apparent holes in AT&Ts 3G coverage.
AT&T gave a lackluster response.
Apple got it right. Yes, Apple has jumped into the frenzy driving a hole right through Verizon. What hole is this? Verizon network can’t do voice and data at the same time. Something a lot of disgruntled iPhone users are probably not aware of.
By the by: these videos are schedule to start airing tonight.
Enjoy!
Video #01
Video #02
Ultimate in Collaboration
You can’t walk five feet these days without hearing stories about this being the collaboration phase of our economy. Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed are allowing businesses to interact with customers on a scale that has never been experienced before.
Without a doubt, the iPhone is the ultimate in collaboration design.
No, this is not to say that the iPhone was designed with the input of millions of people. But rather it was designed to allow collaboration between it’s customers to turn the iPhone into something more than a smart phone. Apple proved this by releasing their developer SDK. “Make any application you want.” People responded by creating over 100,000 applications for the iPhone.
Watch this. Using the iPhone on submersible vehicles on the ocean floor? That’s just cool.
Yes, one could argue that you could take any cell phone to the ocean floor. But if you watched the video, you saw the people using four different applications that you’d never find on a Blackberry. And those applications weren’t specifically designed for underwater usage. They were simply designed. The engineers at this plant simply picked the best applications that would help them respond directly to their customer needs.
The reason for this is that the Blackberry was designed for a segment of the market: business. Most people I know who have Blackberrys definitely fit the “business” aspect of this model.
The iPhone was designed, using Apple’s tried and true “Think Different” montra. Apple almost issued the challenge: “Business apps? Sure. But why not show us what you can really do.”
And people responded.
Warp Speed: Google to double internet speed
More bandwidth more bandwith more bandwith.
It seems that people, including myself, had always assumed getting faster bandwidth would indeed speed up the internet. Granted, it does increase download and upload speeds. But the real magic always comes with the programming behind the scenes.
But this doesn’t resolve the issues as to why some websites just take a long time to download. Fastest broadband connection in the world couldn’t make the websites server up on your browser any faster.
Google is taking aim and redefining the communication between browsers and the server. At their test labs, the results have been promising.
page load times increased 27 percent and 60 percent compared to HTTP, and between 39 percent and 55 percent when using SSL
And that’s not with one drop increase in bandwidth.
Now if we could only get rid of that nasty HTTP:// that repeatedly has to be used. Grrrrrr!
Google Dashboard – I always feel like Somebody’s watching me!
Google dashboard was released today to help users understand what and how they are using Google products – wow so a database of my activities exists at Google – a preverbal paper trail of my web activities. Is this good or bad? Hmmm – I better watch my step 
Five Years Time
This last Tuesday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a talk about what he believes the internet will be like in five years. If you’re planning a long term, online strategy then you may want to pay heed to what he sees coming down the road. Google is one of the largest online players and they do influence how the internet is perceived and reached.
If you have the time, watch the 6 minute highlight reel. Or the full interview can be watched here.
Of note during his speech were these points:
- Teens are the model of how the web will work
- Content will move more towards video
- Google can index real-time information
The last point there is powerful. Google can index real-time information. What is real time information? Social Media! Twitter, Facebook, etc. Your company launches a new product, you send notice out on Twitter and Google instantly indexes your tweet and ranks the information in its search results accordingly.
The internet is changing right in front of us. At break neck speed. Google is prepared. Are you?
What do you think the internet will bring in five years?
Snow Leopard Vs. Windows 7
In its online and retail stores, Microsoft is selling computers loaded with all of its online software, including its Windows Live, Zune, and Security Essentials products. Should Apple be worried or are Windows customers about to get a more stable experience? My money is on the Leopard, how about you? read more
A Black Hat Loses Control and Demands Ransom From Kaspersky
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