Do We Take Social Media and Connectivity for Granted?
The U.S. Department of State sponsors something called the International Visitor Leadership Program which is a program in which young leaders from various parts of the world meet with leaders in the U.S. on a particular topic. I was among one of the people selected to meet with the young foreign leaders to discuss social [...]
Comcast Data Usage Meter: What’s to Celebrate About Being a Year Late?
I admit I’m baffled. If a major service provider imposes consumption caps without providing a way to measure consumption, then promises a metering tool and fails to deliver for a year, than what exactly is the reason to celebrate when finally they start limited testing a year late? But that’s exactly what’s happening: Comcast keeps [...]
USA Leading the Broadband Connectivity Index. Really?
Common wisdom is that the US is way behind developed Asian and European countries in Broadband (and also Mobility). Not quite so – says Professor Leonard Waverman of the London Business School, who published a study on the World’s Connectivity Scorecard. His key thesis is that penetration and connection speed is not enough to [...]
No Internet on Internet Street
You can’t make this up … and since we bear the Cloud Avenue name, we have to be first to bring this news to you: there’s no Internet on Internet Street. Andrzej Gromek bought a house in Warsaw, Poland on a street named … Internet. Wow! How nice of the City of Warsaw to recognize [...]
Barack Obama and Cloud Computing
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Let me take this opportunity to offer my congratulations to President Elect, Mr. Barack Obama. I will also take this opportunity to address what his election means to Cloud Computing. Well, he is not planning to campaign for Cloud Computing. He is also not planning to use social networking [...]
On Broadband – Caps, Coverage and Speed
My co-author Krish posted the other day specifically in reply to Comcasts 250Gb data cap. There's been some significant discussion about this move on the blogosphere – some liken it to a new plague that will bring the end of civilization as we know it. On one hand of course, and in these days of [...]
Broadband Bandwidth Cap and Cloud Computing
Image via CrunchBase From yesterday, Comcast has started implementing a 250 GB bandwidth cap on users browsing the net with their service. They argue that this will stop power users from hijacking the pipe in a neighborhood. This is pretty insane and it has evoked lots of criticism from the blogosphere including the “Metering will [...]
