
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 […]

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 […]