What is a typical user’s expectation when it comes to the tolerable speed of mobile connectivity? Connectivity today spans telephony, infrastructure and service access speeds, application speeds and perceptible performance. Well, having been in the business of managing the ever growing customer expectations from the telecom providers, Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon, has a witty answer to this question. She says – for a typical user – the slowest speed that they are willing to tolerate is the fastest speed that they have ever experienced!
I haven’t said all that much on Twitter thus far. The hype machine on the Internet, meanwhile, does constantly spew stuff about the microblogging service. But I will start covering Twitter once a quarter as part of our Tech Stocks coverage, alongside a few other private companies, including Facebook. Facebook has more than 500 million
I have long been a fan of the verticalization trend on the Web. It led me to define one of the most referenced frameworks for Web 3.0. It has become increasingly possible to reach people in faraway places using the Web. And it has also become possible to hyper-target, and access and offer highly localized,
How do you achieve that delicate balance between the old and the new and find both depth and lightness – depth that moves at an emotional and spiritual level, lightness that moves us forward? From Top 10 Tech Trends For The Decade: Over 500 million people on Facebook indicates a massive shift in how consumers
2010 is drawing to a close. Mark Zuckerberg has just been named Time’s Person of the Year. We’ve been covering various tech companies and entrepreneurs since 2005, and this year, here is a quick synthesis of what look like the major trends from where I sit: