· “Climate Change is multiple problems, and requires multiple solutions.” http://bwbx.io/UqdB
· Cap-and-Trade: How a concept became an environmental policy catchphrase. http://bwbx.io/i6PF
· “Pervasive broadband infrastructure will be a powerful source of new jobs and economic growth.” http://bwbx.io/s9iC
· With current technology (Ethernet), each switch is an island – no switch has any idea that other switches exists. http://bwbx.io/Migw
· “Private sector is not going to build a nationwide, interoperable broadband network for public safety on its own dime.” http://bwbx.io/YEDe
· Broadband stimulus help some communities, libraries and carriers, but not have huge impact on US broadband adoption. http://bwbx.io/PNW3
· Asset-backed debt was among the largest sources of more than $1.7 trillion of writedowns and credit losses, since 2007. http://bwbx.io/sCix
· Industry says a bad idea to regulate under Title II; industry says FCC has no jurisdiction under Title I RESULT Nothing. http://bwbx.io/jBrC
· Broadband plan outlines a road map, a game plan, for significant action, to have this (broadband) infrastructure. http://bwbx.io/tKl
· “Clock is ticking on our country’s mobile broadband leadership opportunity and our global competitiveness.” http://bwbx.io/zcL0
· 3-fold increase in spectrum for mobile broadband not enough to keep pace with an estimated 30-fold increase in traffic. http://bwbx.io/9xTX
· FCC: There is massive inefficiencies in the current allotment TV broadcast spectrum – worth as much as $50 billion. http://bwbx.io/8MLh
· “Nobody is going to be happy. This new rule provides political cover to the SEC so they can say they did something.” http://bwbx.io/iC4E
· “The Germans have been very clever over the last 20 years to pretend that monetary union was a huge problem for them” http://bwbx.io/MEvp
· Britain has the worst of all possible worlds: a stagnant economy, a crippling budget deficit and rising prices. http://bwbx.io/JumF
· Australian Government to sell its stake in the NBN broadband company five years after network is built and operational. http://bwbx.io/pW5k
· It’s natural for competition officials to look at online advertising given how important it is for Internet evolution. http://bwbx.io/hWLb
· Google decided to discuss the case (EU probe) because it knew it would garner attention in the media. http://bwbx.io/vn1n
· Economic developers are convincing big-spending-power institutions to buy from small businesses in their communities. http://bwbx.io/GfpL
· Broadband (Australia): “Anything for $50 per month will sell like hotcakes. Anything bigger than $60 is an outlier” http://bwbx.io/r28m
· More than $1 trillion of corporate high-yield debt, often called “junk bonds,” will come due between now and 2015. http://bwbx.io/sDnP
· Greece now faces the same difficult choices Germany had to make after the boom-and-bust cycle caused by unification. http://bwbx.io/CPn8
· Federal govt spends 15X compliance on banks and credit unions than for nonbanks, while there are at least 5X nonbanks. http://bwbx.io/XPYF
· Will San Francisco and California stop living in this geography unconscionably distasteful and economically impossible? http://bwbx.io/SFTS
· Ignoring others patents is deeply ingrained in certain industries most notably software, computing and Internet sectors. http://bwbx.io/OaQm
· Google’s actions in these incidents were certainly not accidental, and they are part of a growing trend. http://bwbx.io/xQxU
· The dilemma is that either rescuing or abandoning Greece is a gamble. http://bwbx.io/75VK
· America a self-renewing culture attracts world’s talent and “a governing system that increasingly looks like a joke”. http://bwbx.io/9TJp
· California’s death spiral makes nonsense of all the main arguments against comprehensive health reform. http://bwbx.io/QI33
· Five major scenarios for how the crisis in Greece may develop over the coming year, Five major scenarios for how the crisis in Greece may develop over the coming year. http://bwbx.io/bR4c
· Besides massive budgets deficits, states and localities have a $1 trillion deficit in retirement benefits’ funds. http://bwbx.io/Mmxi
· The Fed takes most notable step so far toward unwinding the extraordinary measures it took to prop up the economy. http://bwbx.io/UKZV
· “The Fed’s action came as a surprise and enhanced speculation that it will withdraw stimulus ahead of major peers” http://bwbx.io/xw2p
· Banking Reform: New draft bill for the first time give Treasury secretary oversight of individual financial companies. http://bwbx.io/spGD
· “What Copenhagen did in my mind was put to bed the notion that there will be a global binding treaty that sets targets” http://bwbx.io/BWkF
· “Line sharing” is viable, provided there is significant public investment in broadband infrastructure. http://bwbx.io/bGG2
· A gap is forming in what was once U.S. leadership in most industrial and services sectors – education and skills. http://bwbx.io/DH1K
· Voice until recently was near universal, but a substantial percentage of customers do not want broadband service. http://bwbx.io/mk4H
· HBO starting service on the Verizon FIOS infrastructure, so that customers will be able to watch it via the Internet. http://bwbx.io/R3ci
· If KPN achieves its targets, it will help make the Netherlands one of Europe’s most fiber-access-rich countries. http://bwbx.io/o4vQ
· “The Indian telecom market, with already the world’s lowest tariffs, witnessed savage competitive price cuts” http://bwbx.io/E49g
· Alcatel-Lucent’s API aggregation and bundling model offers developers, service providers and enterprises revenue sharing http://bwbx.io/D11h
· Don’t create a domino effect – watch for these five elements and take necessary steps to prevent mass failure later. http://bwbx.io/fYtT
· “That bold vision (Cap and Trade) hit a brick wall at Copenhagen” http://bwbx.io/wejm
· European credit markets are flashing the most serious warnings signs in a year. http://bwbx.io/JDro
· Despite financial troubles, record EU bank profits in 2009. http://bwbx.io/O9n5
· FCC: Home Internet data transmission speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) to 100 million homes by 2020. http://bwbx.io/W29F
· As with every “guarantee” of financial wealth, this (Social Security reform) is a shell game. http://bwbx.io/2UrO
· “It seems like everybody is out of work except for bank lobbyists.” http://bwbx.io/2J2j
· Too much emphasis on mega/gigabytes per sec obscures more pressing issue: How broadband can be harnessed to create jobs. http://bwbx.io/MJFW
· Collisions of gold atoms at US DoE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory reaches 4 trillion Celsius, 250,000X sun’s interior. http://bwbx.io/74Rl
· “Some wealth fund coming in to save the day? That is not going to happen.” http://bwbx.io/9TNn
· Goldman Sachs has the view that the Fed will increase interest rates rather than unload assets off its balance sheet. http://bwbx.io/fLId
· Airborne Laser prototype weapons system destroyed a ballistic missile that was in flight, but program canceled. http://bwbx.io/FBK8
· Financial markets failed, but are demanding the absurd: wages of workers be cut, but bonuses be allowed to continue. http://bwbx.io/MYc5
· “Greece is not a political or an economic superpower to fight this alone” http://bwbx.io/iCFC
· FCC will avoid line sharing as agency will wind up in courts indefinitely fighting AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon lawyers. http://bwbx.io/pRRL
· France had about 255,000 ultra high-speed broadband subscribers at the end of September 2009. http://bwbx.io/fCcC
· HP won EU approval for its plan to buy 3Com for $2.7 billion. http://bwbx.io/ewpf
· There aren’t any practical Internet applications able to use even 5% of the bandwidth Google has proposed to offer. http://bwbx.io/jv9C
· This bandwidth blitz looks more like an expensive PR ploy aimed at vexing the carriers and enchanting Washington. http://bwbx.io/7lma
· “Huge irony” is only five years ago telcos was scrabbling for customers for wireless networks, having invested billions. http://bwbx.io/l3wB
· As long as Google can master saying, “We’ll be at your home between 1pm-6pm next Thu” Google the ISP will be just fine. http://bwbx.io/Larb
· There’s not much new in Google bouncing sites for alleged copyright violations, or other reasons. http://bwbx.io/qcEZ
· Google is censoring its results in China a month after taking a public stand against Chinese laws – not only in China. http://bwbx.io/5JkP
· Broadband is the next step in the Net evolution: telegraph, telephone, dial-up, X.25, SNA, DECNet, the Internet, … http://bwbx.io/vZHT
· It is a regulatory nightmare and you can expect it to result in a proverbial “knife fight in a phone booth”. http://bwbx.io/YtIG
· “My favorite little town of Baudette(MN) is unlikely to be a high priority for any serious broadband development.” http://bwbx.io/OjOI
· Without a vigorous Silicon Valley, it’s going to be hard to sustain an innovation culture in the country. http://bwbx.io/E5ln
· California’s education cuts will make it tough to keep pace of invention to sustain knowledge-based innovation economy. http://bwbx.io/DdZ7
· $1.4 trillion in commercial real estate loans will reach the end of their terms between 2010 and 2014. http://bwbx.io/ZRgP
· EU has a unified monetary authority with no unified fiscal authority. http://bwbx.io/E3L6
· Greek rescue package could end up featuring Portugal as Lehman Brothers and Spain as AIG. http://bwbx.io/LJDe
· Joseph E. Stiglitz’s theory won him the Nobel, about people who knew a lot exploiting people who had less information. http://bwbx.io/LuyH
· People prefer e-mailing positive, long articles on intellectually challenging topics. http://bwbx.io/qGIc
· VIDEO: Google has launched a Winter Olympics “street view” feature. http://bwbx.io/VlO5
· Google have all of the core components of Unified C communications in place. http://bwbx.io/7qEv
· “Need to bring transparency to what is happening to our public- and private-sector networks.” http://bwbx.io/JSp0
· Cap-and-trade system gas emissions are capped, and then those pollution credits become a tradeable commodity. http://bwbx.io/1Gd1
· Service providers bypassing 40-Gbit switches, asking for 100-Gbit capability, but they are severely capital constrained. http://bwbx.io/2Eiq
· How long can borrowing to consume continue? http://bwbx.io/tnHq
· New IBM 16-core chip packs 1.43 billion transistors into a 428mm-squared die – most complex IBM chip, yet. http://bwbx.io/uL1V
· The sum speculators bet against the euro last week — $7.6 billion — was a record. http://bwbx.io/KRW7
· Both government and industry have obligations they must meet whether or not it is convenient. http://bwbx.io/5VFj
· 747-8 Freighter test flight coincided with 41st anniversary of first 747 take-off, Feb. 9, 1969. http://bwbx.io/WRi9
· “We are confident that we are seeing signs of recovery right across the world but we’re right to be cautious” http://bwbx.io/VXZq
· China has closed the largest hacker training website in the country and arrested three of its members. http://bwbx.io/tH90
· IBM created the 100Ghz graphene transistor using existing silicon fabrication methods. http://bwbx.io/fRwv
· The outside world “is making assumptions about American political will that few on the inside will.” http://bwbx.io/tnHq
· “How long can the world’s biggest borrower remain the world’s biggest power?” http://bwbx.io/D7YI
· The federal bailout locked in the paper losses of those deals for AIG, with Goldman receiving full value for its bets. http://bwbx.io/cLus
· To save the world from economic collapse we have transferred liabilities of the private sector to the public. http://bwbx.io/Malw
· http://virtualglobetrotting.com – Best satellite, aerial and street view imagery from around the world
· EU lack a centralized budgetary mechanism, like in the US, to move resources from rich parts of the union to poor parts. http://bwbx.io/3IdG
· Dilemma with classifying providers of broadband infrastructure as common carriers. http://bwbx.io/hkQX
· Google making it OK to talk about attacks, and the Government shifting to attack the problem head-on. http://bwbx.io/9bCs
· “Cybersecurity impacts every facet of American society – economically, socially, education, and national security” http://bwbx.io/bveQ
· Phishing attack transfer cap-and-trade emission allowances to accounts in Denmark and Britain before reselling them. http://bwbx.io/ZtF6
· eBay still has a lock on auctions. It smoked out much of its would-be competition years ago. http://bwbx.io/Qwa7
· “The wolf’s at the door in Japan and we in the US have front row seats to see what’s going to happen.” http://bwbx.io/fXLz
· Paulson’s street smarts complemented Bernanke’s deep historical knowledge of crises and Geithner’s technocratic skills. http://bwbx.io/whrq
· The Fed’s holdings of mortgage agency debt grew to $164.66B; and agency mortgage-backed securities grew to $970.33B. http://bwbx.io/4Ayw
· AT&T stumbled into a quagmire, when it secured exclusive rights to support Apple’s iPhone on its wireless network. http://bwbx.io/nbG4
· Companies have statutory authority to share information with the government to protect their rights and property. http://bwbx.io/sgaA
· New Intel chips will contain 1.17 billion transistors. http://bwbx.io/vlIk
· Intel plans to refresh its entire server line within three months with the 32-nm Westmere technology. http://bwbx.io/t91q
· What is missing is Patent “derivatives market.” http://bwbx.io/sUwu
· The now former CEO of Sun Microsystems offered his resignation via Twitter – 140 chars: Future communications? http://bwbx.io/vTgO
· Insight gained by banks from information flows adds up to a significant market advantage, and excess returns on average. http://bwbx.io/kSx2
· Longer workers remains out of work, their skills atrophy, less likely they are ever to return to the working world. http://bwbx.io/hM8D
· Delay in rewriting banking rules that caused confidence crises, collapse of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, etc. http://bwbx.io/JQLc
· The trouble is, top-paying occupations are a minuscule component of the labor force. http://bwbx.io/HIcP
· “This (high speed rail) is a much more civilized way to travel.” http://bwbx.io/pkNB
· Infusion of $8 billion will bring practical, measurable benefits, since high-speed rail is so mind-bogglingly expensive. http://bwbx.io/M712
· NASA budget includes $30 million a year to begin integrating unmanned aircraft into the U.S. airspace. http://bwbx.io/lxQ
· For ten-billionth of a second, they produced more than all power generated by entire electrical grid of the USA. http://bwbx.io/Fb29
· Global semiconductor sales were $226.3 billion in 2009, a decline of 9 percent from 2008 when sales were $248.6 billion. http://bwbx.io/pnZZ
