So what is bigger than "local" applications space? The answer is Web/browser-based applications space. And what is bigger than Web/browser applications space? The answer is voice space.
Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race.
The first disadvantage of an elite education is how very much of the human it alienates you from.
One of the great errors of an elite education, then, is that it teaches you to think that measures of intelligence and academic achievement are measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense.
t schools like Cleveland State, they’re being trained for positions somewhere in the middle of the class system, in the depths of one bureaucracy or another.
if you’re afraid to fail, you’re afraid to take risks, which begins to explain the final and most damning disadvantage of an elite education
he European Commission today outlined the main steps that
Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution
that will intensify in the coming years due to trends such as social networking,
the decisive shift to on-line business services, nomadic services based on GPS
and mobile TV and the growth of smart tags. The report shows that Europe is well
placed to exploit these trends because of its policies to support open and
pro-competitive telecom networks as well as privacy and security.
Web 3.0
means seamless 'anytime, anywhere' business, entertainment and social networking
over fast reliable and secure networks
The index shows that Sweden and the Netherlands are clear leaders in the EU,
thanks to a competition-friendly environment and skilled citizens and businesses
that can use advanced services.
The objective of Android -- as with Google's participation in the US government spectrum auction earlier this year -- is to move the entire mobile industry forward by opening it up. If Google succeeds, on the shoulders of the iPhone's early success, it will benefit consumers and, ultimately, Google.
More than any other single event the launch of the iPhone last year catalyzed the mobile market, which had been in state of sleepy evolution for years. But the Apple device kicked everyone in the rear and kicked the market into high gear. We can effectively date the mobile internet like this: "BI" and "AI" (before iPhone, after iPhone).
Until Chrome came along, Google's Master Mobile Plan didn't quite add up. Now it does. Chrome -- Google's new superbrowser -- is cream on the top of a new mobile software stack. Let's call it GACL, for Gears, Android and Chrome on Linux.
User-generated content ranging from social networking to dating and personal content delivery services is expected to grow about 563 percent from a $1.1 billion market today to at least $7.3 billion in 2013
Mobile social networking use will increase from 54 million users today to nearly 730 million in 2013 with the bulk of those users coming from Asia.
In fact the ultraportables are important to this story. They are the real incarnation of what Bill Gates thought the Tablet would be. His 2001 forecast that in five years the Tablet would be the dominant model on sale was wrong. But I'll pick up his wonky prediction cap. I think that it will be true of the ultraportable in five years or so; in 10 years, surely.
And I think that ultraportable, like the Android phones, will be running Linux, because there's a lot of effort gone into developing low-power versions of it already.
n the U.S., 28.4 percent of subscribers now have a 3G device vs. the five largest countries in Europe, which have a combined penetration rate of 28.3 percent.
Within Europe, Italy has the highest 3G penetration at 38.3 percent; Spain comes in second place with 37.2 percent. The U.K. has a penetration rate of 19.9 percent, and Germany has 23.9 percent and France has 12.6 percent.
The U.S. also eclipses the five European countries when it comes to number of users with a 3G device. The U.S. has 64.2 million vs. Europe, which has 63.4 million.