Category Archives: Internet

What Country Has Most Internet Users?

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

According to comScore and echoed by The Economist, China is the country with most Internet users in the World, accounting for 179.7 million users out of one billion worldwide. The United States of America, until recently the leader, has 163 … Continue reading →

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Welcome 2009!

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when iPhone 3G confirmed Apple’s revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset … Continue reading →

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Online Video Gets the Headlines, IPTV the Revenue

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Net Neutrality: All Packets Are Created Equal

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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How Can IPTV Telcos Defend from Online TV?

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Is Internet Creating or Destroying Value?

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Top 5 Disruptions in the Past Twelve Months

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Will Speech-Reco Cross the Chasm with Google?

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Don’t Be Evil?

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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The Earth on your Palm

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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