Archive for December, 2008
Monday, December 29th, 2008
Charlie Rose interviews Bill Gates a few weeks ago in Seattle. They talk about the remarkable life of a man who changed the World by putting a computer on everyone's desk. And about someone who we all expect will make an impact with the foundation he runs with his ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
December 28th is the Spanish equivalent to April Fool's day. That is why I had to read twice the news that iFart Mobile (see video) was the best selling application in App Store during the holidays (iTunes Link).
Quoted from the iFart creator, Joel Comm's blog:
All I knew was that a ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Ten years ago the RIAA fought the decrease in sales of music CDs by different means, including: taking their customers to court, lobbying to have the ISPs stopping Internet Access to anyone who shared music files, and imposing taxes to any device able to store or play music, assuming everyone ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
An interesting analysis from Telco 2.0 compares the business of YouTube versus Hulu in 2008. The table summarizes the key data used in the analysis:
YouTube
Hulu
No of videos/day
1000+ million
3-4 million
Average duration
2.75 min
27.5 min
% clips with ads
3-4%
80%
Average CPM
$10
$15-20
2008 Revenues
$118 m
$52 m
2008 Loss
$91 m
$9 m
According to Telco 2.0, YouTube ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
The essence of Net Neutrality is "All Packets are created Equal". No ISP should block or prioritize any traffic based on what the IP Packet carries. That is, no VoIP/Skype, YouTube video, music download or Bittorrent traffic should be processed differently based on its nature. All packets will be equally treated ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Some facts about Online video:
Online TV is growing. The number of people watching online video will grow from 563 million in 2007 to 941 million in 2013 according to ABI research, echoed by NewTeeVee.
People watch far more hours of TV from the couch than on the PC. According to Nielsen ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Android announced this week that 14 new companies are joining the Open Handset Alliance. The new members are: AKM Semiconductor, ARM, ASUSTek Computer, Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Sony Ericsson, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone.
Some readings:
Sony Ericsson sold their shares ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
As usual in bad times, the debate on whether progress creates or destroys value comes back, as questioned in Martin Varsavsky blog, this time referring to how RSS destroys affects to blogs reducing the amount of displayed advertisement.
As Martin writes:
"I once debated Michael Porter at Davos on the overall ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Friday, December 5th, 2008
Taiwanese vendor Asus brought the Netbooks to mainstream with their popular Eee PC, leading the way for other manufacturers to jump into a now crowded category. Following that success, Asus introduced a small-form-factor desktop, the Eee Box, creating a new NetTop category, that so far has failed to take off.
But ...
Posted in Digital Home | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Mike Manos, Microsoft Data Center Chief, has unveiled in his blog the design of future "Generation 4" Microsoft data centers. With the mission to provide massive easy-to-scale computing infrastructure to power the Cloud, Microsoft envisions pre-assembled containers equipped with a few thousands of servers each and its associated cabling and ...
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