Wireless broadband has limits (and is certainly more expensive when it comes to transferring bits), but the real threat to wireless broadband isn’t that data use will overload the network, but that carriers won’t be able to walk the line between delivering compelling services at a price point that makes them money and keeps users surfing.
GigaOM on Wireless Broadband
23 September 2008
1 September 2008
For as long as I’ve been paying attention, our politicians have asked little of us as citizens. After 9-11 we were told to go out and shop. During the 90s we were given welfare reform but there was no call for Americans to get out there and fight poverty. There has been no attempt to get people involved in solving real problems.
GigaOM on Government
27 June 2008
But it’s the singularity of their [Bill Gates and his peers] missions — their obsessions, if you will — that truly makes them special. So special, in fact, that no one currently on the horizon will even come close to replacing them.
GigaOM on Bill Gates
16 June 2008
The recent flood of activity around data portability has stirred in me two reactions: keen interest and a distinct feeling of being underwhelmed. Having been in the data business since the early 90s, it’s clear to me that data portability is a non-solution to a non-problem, a storm in a teacup, an emperor with no clothes.
GigaOm on Data Portability