Archive for the 'Broadband' Category

The new corporate trend: “onshoring”

December 4, 2007

Ha! What did I tell you? It is wayyy past my bedtime and I should be sleeping (especially since I’m sick and feel like I’ve been run over by a truck), but just stumbled on an interesting article from one of my favorite economic development blogs: Design Nine. He points to an article in the [...]

WP: Japan’s Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future

September 1, 2007

An important factor for long term economic growth is technological innovation. An important factor for technological innovation is increasingly access to high speed internet connections. The US has been falling behind Japan, South Korea, and parts of Europe in terms of access to fiber optic connections to the home. I alluded to this here and [...]

The beginning of the end for Wi-Fi

July 16, 2007

For a couple years now (are you getting sick of me saying that yet?), again I would blabber to anyone who would listen about my thoughts on the future of wireless broadband. Wireless broadband equipment manufacturers are laughing to the bank and will continue for the near term. However, the dream that people will be [...]

Sigbritt, 75, has world’s fastest broadband

July 13, 2007

THIS is funny…
Sigbritt, 75, has world’s fastest broadband
That is 40 Gbps!!! To a home!!! Most Americans would drool over 40 Mbps.
What could anyone do with all that bandwidth? You’ll see soon enough…

China’s Online Population Explosion

July 12, 2007

A new Pew internet survey came out today showing that internet users in China have grown in numbers to the point they are second only to the US and will surpass the US in a few years.
China’s Online Population Explosion
The US economy is at risk for lots of reasons these days and one reason that [...]