Cable Or DSL – Who Is The Winner?
The single question that I get asked the most in my travels is which is better, DSL or cable? The related question often asked is which will win? The short answer is — the consumer. However, the questions are part of the bigger issue of “speed”. The Next Generation of the Internet has many new […]
Content for Kids
In Net Attitude, I wrote quite a bit about the importance of talking to teenagers. They hold many of the clues as to what the Future of the Internet will be like. The kids totally get the Internet and studies have now proven what may be the obvious — nearly 90% of teenagers in America […]
Bandwidth Galore (Update)
In a story entitled “Fujitsu Tests Optical WDM Communication Spanning 7,400km at 2.4Tbps”, published by Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., we see some impressive but not unexpected news. In Net Attitude, I talked quite a bit in the chapter called Fast about how we would have “Bandwidth Galore”. I also wrote a 1998 reflection by that […]
Technology and the Push for Simplification
Technology and the Push for Simplification Jan. 30, 2001 “Computers are not quite there yet. And so I think one of the biggest challenges we face is to take a lot of this great technology and put it to work to make the technology itself easier“ – Dr. Irving Wladawsy Berger (VP IBM’S Technology and […]
My first JavaBean application
I have to admit…. I was skeptical but I went ahead and downloaded the BeanMachine. I have to admit… I was really impressed. It couldn’t have been easier. The BeanMachine is really a neat tool for creating Java applets. BeanMachine lets you enrich your web site with multimedia, special effects, smart forms and live data. […]