Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

How Can IPTV Telcos Defend from Online TV?

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 ...

Is Internet Creating or Destroying Value?

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 ...

Top 5 Disruptions in the Past Twelve Months

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

These are the top hottest five topics that we have covered over the past twelve months with the biggest potential for a disruption in both the Communications Industry and in our habits. 1) Mobile Internet, the Internet way. The iPhone and Google's Android have revolutionized Mobile Internet in the handset, making web ...

Will Speech-Reco Cross the Chasm with Google?

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Speech Recognition technology is available for many years, still its impact has been quite low so far. Windows has speech recognition features that nobody use,  speech-to-dial is available in mobile phones since years. Few people configure it, and less of them ever use it. Only Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems ...

Don’t Be Evil?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Yesterday Google put an end to the advertisement agreement with Yahoo! that both companies announced in April. Google blamed the government regulators and some advertisers who had concerns on the deal. And who wouldn't? The two major players in online advertisement were reaching an agreement to cooperate on search advertisement. ...

The Earth on your Palm

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Found via TechCrunch, Google keeps producing great stuff, and "organizing World's information" for us. Google Earth for iPhone (and iPod Touch) puts literally the entire blue planet on your handset. Enriched by links to Panoramio and Wikipedia, and fully using the iPhone user experience, these apps will soon make GPS ...

Will Internet TV Kill IPTV?

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Internet TV has definitively arrived and it is here to stay. YouTube crossed the chasm for video on the Internet, and Internet TV is now steadily going mainstream. Here is some piece of evidence: Lean-forward TV gets traction. Mainstream users now feel comfortable watching videos on the PC. First it was ...

Mobile Internet Platforms: Do we need a different Web for Mobile?

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Mobile Mondays dedicated its latest event in Madrid to Mobile Internet Platforms, where my good friend Alex Romero from Yahoo! presented their vision of Mobile Internet. Mobile Internet is finally coming. Unlimited data plans and high speeds (HSDPA, EVDO) are finally enabling it. Although most 3G data traffic is still associated ...

Converging into Clouds

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Online players, such as Google and Amazon cope all bets to reign over the Clouds, benefiting from their global reach and huge experience on web scalability. Others foresee IBM -talking about utility computing for decades- or HP, after acquiring EDS, as strong contenders to put IT systems on the clouds. But ...

Why is Google building a Browser?

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

The clip from Google answers the question in its first part. "To take the Web to the next level". Web browsers were designed for web pages much simpler than the web interactive applications we enjoy today, such as Gmail, Google Maps or Google Docs. JavaScript executes extremely fast in Chrome, ...