The Academy Awards were on TV last night, and the many retrospective montages showing 80 years of film made me want to write something about why few of those movies are available legally online today. Remember all those promises back in the late 1990s about how the Internet would soon allow people to watch […]
Entries Tagged as 'Fiber'
The (Slow) Race to Put Movies Online
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Broadband · Copyright · Fiber · India · Japan · TV · U.S.
Broadband Speed Rankings Update: Affordable Gbit Connections Begin to Appear
December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
Ok, so you have been hearing for years that Korea’s population is the most Internet-connected in the world. And maybe you knew that Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Norway had caught up (at least in terms of penetration, if not blazing speed). And you probably knew that the United States lags many other […]
Tags: Broadband · Europe · Fiber · Japan · Korea
100Mbps fiber optic broadband for $30/month
March 4th, 2006 · No Comments
What trip to Japan would be complete without a little technolust? Even though I keep up to date on what technologies are flourishing overseas, I was still in awe of the cell phones I saw in Tokyo on my recent trip. They are full-featured broadband-connected video conferencing computers (and they double as credit/debit […]
