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Before Google and Facebook, high-speed fiber-optic service opened up the world A potentially embarrassing exercise is to read articles you wrote a few months or years ago. Sometimes it’s because you made predictions that were way off base. I was recently browsing through some old columns I wrote when I was publisher of the Baltimore […]
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Digging through some old files recently, I came across a column I wrote for the Baltimore Business Journal 22 years ago. It described how our cable TV and internet provider had installed fiber-optic cable in the neighborhood. This new distribution channel transformed a clunky dialup internet service into a lightning fast information source. The hyperbole […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos isn’t the only e-commerce billionaire making news with acquisitions. Jack Ma, chairman of China’s e-commerce leader, Alibaba, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a Twitter-like microblogging service and a mapping service. Both of these giants have been bolting on companies that can help them gain synergies […]
Read More »Reed Hundt A single digital marketplace where ideas and goods flow freely across borders offers great potential for economic growth. It also makes many national leaders worry about loss of control of their people and culture. Whether and how to control the Internet is the biggest unanswered question facing countries today, said Reed Hundt, who […]
Read More »Two years ago the buzz was that mobile was the next big thing, and now that consumers are moving to tablets and smartphones, the moment has arrived. Nielsen says that 50.4% of mobile users now have a smartphone. More than two-thirds of those in the 25-34 age group have a smartphone. The report is here. […]
Read More »Along with the decline of youth morals, a favorite topic of people of a certain age is the decay of the language. The idea that there was a Golden Age of morals and language, now corrupted in our decadent time, has been a literary topic for a couple of thousand years. It is part of […]
Read More »(Para leer una versión de esta nota en español, pulse aquí.) Somebody brilliant said that, and if we need any proof we need look no further than a recent study by Comscore and the Newspaper Association of America. The data show that the 103 million unique users of newspaper sites in September spent an average […]
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