Around 1994 I was speaking of the possibility of developing what I called the information furnace. I used the anology of central heating and said that the idea of having homes with multiple computers each having their own programs and disks was kind of like how the Brits heated their homes. I was … Continue reading
Category Archives: Technology
The End of the PC Era
We are entering the fourth era of computing. The fist was the main frame lead by IBM; the second was the mini computer lead by Digital Equipment (where I worked) and the third was the PC which was lead by the combination of Microsoft and Intel. I am afraid the run Intel and Microsoft had … Continue reading
Smart Grid (benifit of BPL)
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
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
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 