Open Access

"We find that in countries where an engaged regulator enforced open access obligations, competitors that entered using these open access facilities provided an important catalyst for the development of robust competition which, in most cases, contributed to strong broadband performance across a range of metrics. Today these competitors continue to play, directly or through successor companies, a central role in the competitiveness of the markets they inhabit. Incumbents almost always resist this regulation, and the degree to which a regulator is professional, engaged, and effective appears to play a role in the extent to which open access is successfully implemented with positive effects."

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski

in reference to:

"FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski"
- Line sharing best solution for slow, expensive US broadband - Ars Technica (view on Google Sidewiki)

Cellphones, Texts and Lovers

"Over the past few decades, these social scripts became obsolete. They didn’t fit the post-feminist era. So the search was on for more enlightened courtship rules. You would expect a dynamic society to come up with appropriate scripts. But technology has made this extremely difficult. Etiquette is all about obstacles and restraint. But technology, especially cellphone and texting technology, dissolves obstacles. Suitors now contact each other in an instantaneous, frictionless sphere separated from larger social institutions and commitments."

in reference to: Op-Ed Columnist - Cellphones, Texts and Lovers - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Hold the phone, reality is calling

"Welcome to augmented reality, the digital revolution that integrates location and data.

I'm standing at the corner of King and La Trobe streets in central Melbourne, facing the Flagstaff Gardens across the road. I've been here many times but today I'm looking at the gardens in a new way — through my phone.

When I point the phone's camera at the gardens, a flotilla of text bubbles pops up and bobs across the screen. Point the camera in a new direction and some bubbles drift out of view as new ones drift in.

Click on any bubble and an information box comes up."

in reference to: Augmented Reality iPhone Apps In Australia (view on Google Sidewiki)

* About Bill Gurley Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model

"Google’s free navigation feature announcement dealt a crushing blow to the GPS stocks. Garmin fell 16%. TomTom fell 21%. Imagine trying to maintain high royalty rates against this strategic move by Google. Android is not only a phone OS, it’s a CE OS. If Ford or BMW want to build an in-dash Android GPS, guess what? Google will give it to them for free. As we noted in our take on the free business model, “if a disruptive competitor can offer a product or service similar to yours for ‘free,’ and if they can make enough money to keep the lights on, then you likely have a problem.”

Nice to find Bill Gurley again, somewhere in the past he fell off my radar.

in reference to: Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model « abovethecrowd.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Save outrage for times that really warrant it

"Yes, it's been a great few weeks for the national pastime of taking offence. A bunch of Auckland Grammar pupils on a class trip to Auckland Museum mock worship the swastika, post the photographs online, and ... well, World War II breaks out all over again.

Publicly shamed, the offenders are even filmed, jerseys pulled over their heads, doing the equivalent of a perp walk into the museum to offer their apologies ... We cross now to our reporter outside who can tell us that, apparently, there were tears. This was the lead item of that evening's bulletin.

What a pack of pious, bullying scolds sections of our news media have become. And what a lot of purse-lipped professional offence-takers there are to enable this culture of complaint, creating supposed victims out of nothing more than loose talk and crass behaviour."

Via: http://publicaddress.net/default,6255,standing-up-and-calling-bullshit.sm#post6255

in reference to:

"Save outrage for times that really warrant it"
- Save outrage for times that really warrant it | Stuff.co.nz (view on Google Sidewiki)

Telecom offers unlimited uploading, but downloading still capped

"New Zealand broadband users are used to heavy limits on the amount of data they can download, but there will be no limit on uploading data for Telecom Broadband customers for the next three months."

Why only three months? But congratulations on recognising we don't just suck content down.

in reference to:

"Telecom offers unlimited uploading, but downloading still capped"
- Telecom offers unlimited uploading, but downloading still capped | The National Business Review - New Zealand - business, markets, finance, politics, property, technology and more (view on Google Sidewiki)

May I begin by greeting everyone in the languages of the real

Real?

Realm, actually.

Via: http://twitter.com/NZGovtFeeds/status/5356414632

in reference to:

"May I begin by greeting everyone in the languages of the real"
- Owae Whai-Tara Marae | The Governor-General of New Zealand Te Kawana o Tianara o Aotearoa (view on Google Sidewiki)