For the las four and a half years I have been on the board (and very active with) an amazing company called Current Technology Group. We use the same distribution system that brings electricity into your home to provided broadband services. Recently we entered into a business relationship with TXU (a major power utility) to provided … Continue reading
Author Archives: avram miller
Stumbling on Happiness
Now you can find out why you have everything and are still not happy. This is a great book that will give the reader great insight into the choices we all make and why so many times they do not lead to happiness. I think it is could also be considered a marketing/business book. I … Continue reading
The new VC: “Turn on, Tune in and Drop Out”
I am certainly glad I am not a VC at the moment. Barriers to enter have dropped to negative numbers. Everyone one with a good idea and a lot more people with bad ideas are able to create a web 2.0 “business” with the flick of a mouse. For me this means the signal to noise ratio has … Continue reading
We are all going to live long but we might not know it
For a long time, sciences have worked on ways to extend our lives but not our minds The result is predictable or at least many of thought so. But now it turns out the science has discovered that the brain (home of the mind) is more like a muscle than was thought. Meaning that it … Continue reading
E911 has done me in,
I have been an early adopter of VoiP, After trying Vonage for a while I moved to AT&T’ callvantage service, which I really like because of the features it offers me over normal phone service I installed two lines in my SF home and two lines in my Sonoma home Everything was fine until E911 … Continue reading
Residential broadband hit the 3/4s mark
I remember when we I started developing residentail broadband in the early 90s, that I felt sucess was when we hit 50% penetration since that is when most applications/content developers would really target the broadband home. I hope this numbers below are correct. NEW YORK – More than three-quarters of residential Web users got on … Continue reading
If microsoft made paint, we would still be waiting for it to dry
Good article in the NYT’s on Steve Berkowitz (the person in charge of Microsoft’s online business) struggle to make Microsoft’s online business relevant to users. There was one quote that I really appreciated which really explains Apple (not my favorite company) recent sucesses. He said: “A lot of decisions were driven by technology; they were not … Continue reading
Equal Access
I have been involved this wonderful organization for the last five years (I am a senior advisor which means I get to give advice without having to go board meetings). Equal Access is committed to providing information that will changes the lives of people living in poverty in rual asia. We are reaching tens of millions … Continue reading
Interesting info on UK broadband with data about the rest of the world
Ofcom, the regulator for the UK communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications services, has published its new International Communications Market Report. The publication analyses trends in the £840bn annual turnover global television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications industries. It also compares UK data, consumer attitudes and industry performance against that … Continue reading
Broadband in the USA
When I first started working on the development of consumer broadband (which pretty much when it started) in 1992, I thought that the USA would lead the world. I could not imagine that Korea would have a system 10 to 100 better that the USA. Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 