Telstra’s network advantage seems to be showing in the results of this Wired survey on iPhone 3G speeds. U.S. carrier AT&T tied for third with Telstra, Telia and Softbank, where users reported average download speeds of roughly 990 Kbps. Australian carriers Optus and Virgin users reported the slowest speeds of about 390 Kbps on average. [...]
“The market for personal and service robots is about $3 billion now but is expected to reach $15 billion by 2015″ Newsweek: Why Should We Be Friends?
…the removal of conductors has led to a boom in fare evasion, up from just 1.7% of passengers in 1996 to 25% in 2000. Metlink claims it has fallen from 14.2% to 10.1% in the past two reported years, but it is thought by some insiders to be much higher. RMIT transport expert and advocate [...]
..has arrived, and been named by Tim Berners-Lee: There are cries from the heart (e.g The Open Social Web Bill of Rights) for my friendship, that relationship to another person, to transcend documents and sites. There is a “Social Network Portability” community. Its not the Social Network Sites that are interesting — it is the [...]
Act V: The act of remembering Another possible change: with connected books, the tether between the author and the book is still active after purchase. Errata can be corrected instantly. Updates, no problem. Newsweek, The Future of Reading Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this [...]
Guillaume Thoreau calls the connectivity model on the Kindle a breakthrough: That’s what I call something huge in term of user experience: no sync via a PC, no WiFi hot-spot hunting, no subscription fee, no subscription at all! It’s a naturally connected device. It sounds like it – assuming the closed purchase model of buying [...]
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