It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how that selling broadband services is big business. But the landscape of selling broadband services in the future will look vastly different than it does currently or even in the past. While the use of standards has ignited broadband services growth, it has also fueled the success of patent pools as well as the business of inventing or buying patents that read on these standards or potential future standards. (more…)
It has been said that the Internet is becoming tomorrow’s Personal Computer (PC) operating system and in so doing allow individuals to maintain a variety of different means of accessing their virtual PC. Taking a stab at a support argument for the virtual PC while posing some questions about user data which will become a thorny issue well into the future. (more…)
One could easily say that the US Government is one of the most innovative nations in the world when it comes to fostering new technology and creating uses for it. The same organization that brought you a man landing on the moon, the Internet, and geo-satellites (there are many other examples) doesn’t have to prove to anyone what it can do to make truly amazing things happen. Unfortunately, the list of government funded innovations by its employees and government funded researchers are often over shadowed by policy makers who have to make the really tough choices - those that impact peoples lives. (more…)
If there is one thing that telephone companies have done successfully over their history it has been their ability to lobby. Take the most recent squabble over these local video franchises which provide a kind of right of passage to offer video services to communities. Over the past year telecom has flexed its political lobbying muscle and has definitely got the ball rolling. While not achieving the coveted national franchise, the next best thing was accomplished - a victory in state wide video franchises. The question is, what is next for telecom and video? (more…)
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