By Mathew Ingram – Meanwhile, the second Google Now card showed the traffic on the highway and told me I should probably give myself more time than usual to get to the airport—and when I got closer to the time of my departure, a third card showed my boarding pass information, including boarding time and the gate number (Google Now got that info from my calendar, but it also supports scannable boarding passes for a limited number of airlines.) more> http://tinyurl.com/c5qrnfj
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Tagged Broadband, Business improvement, Google, Health, Industrial economy, Internet, Net evolution, Regulations, Social networks, United States
BOOK REVIEW
The New Digital Age, Authors: Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen.
Associated Press – Some illuminating books already have been written about Google’s catalytic role in a technological upheaval that is redefining the way people work, play, learn, shop and communicate.
Until now, though, there hasn’t been a book providing an unfiltered look from inside Google’s brain trust.
The book is an exercise in “brainstorming the future,” as Schmidt put it in a recent post on Twitter — just one example of a cultural phenomenon that didn’t exist a decade ago. more> http://tinyurl.com/buth3sp
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Tagged Broadband, Google, Industrial economy, Internet, Net evolution, Social networks, Technology, United States
By Cabe Atwell – Billions of smartphones, computers, radio devices, satellites, etc. around the world tap into this invisible resource, electromagnetic spectrum, to connect disparate sections of the globe through the transmission of data.
Like any other resource, there are untapped regions that are not being utilized to their full extent. Google.org, the Internet mogul’s charitable arm, is publicizing a Spectrum Database that monitors unused spectrum frequencies (a.k.a. white space) across the US. The database is undergoing a 45-day public trial with the FCC to test its validity. If all goes well, Google’s spectrum database will be certified, ultimately allowing industry stakeholders and the public to utilize unoccupied frequency ranges through dynamic spectrum sharing. more> http://tinyurl.com/cfpqns6
By Leila Abboud – France backed away from legislation to make Internet companies including Google pay for the burden they place on telecommunications networks, opting instead to ask a commission to study the controversial issue.
France’s Socialist government is concerned that Web giants weigh down networks with traffic without contributing to telecom companies’ investments in high-speed systems, echoing a position held by European telecom operators.
Big Web companies like Facebook, Google and Netflix reject the idea of paying telecom operators to have their content reach customers. more> http://tinyurl.com/bf2d4x6
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Tagged Broadband, Facebook, France, Google, Internet, Netflix, Social networks, Super regions, Telecommunication, World Wide Web
English: Taken at the 2009 Consumer electronics show, Las Vegas, at the Samsung Booth.
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Drew Clark – Today, broadband is the driver for almost all of today’s digital technologies. Of the hundreds of examples of digital technologies that I experienced last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I cannot recall a single one of them that wasn’t broadband-enabled.
Here’ the top 10 issues for 2013:
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Tagged Broadband, Business, Consumer Electronics Show, Data Communications, Google, Internet, Las Vegas, United States, Verizon, Wireline
