Saunders explains how Internet users in North America are already vastly outnumbered by those in the rest of the world – a situation which is only set to accelerate.
Saunders explains how Internet users in North America are already vastly outnumbered by those in the rest of the world – a situation which is only set to accelerate.
Saunders predicts the decline and fall of America’s Internet empire, and explains how the Internet of the future will be multi-lingual as well as multi-national.
i think the growth rate will slow down a bit in places like pakistan, but at the same time the internet infrastrcuture and access devices are getting so cheap there is really no reason why most of the world (or more than two thirds of it, at least) shouldn't get on line within the next five or ten years.
The big thing is that we just don't have any idea what the internet will look like in these countries. Different cultures will breed different types of community, that's for sure.
And the bigger thing is: no one is even thinking about this stuff in this country. It's all twitter this and google that. Talk about twittering while rome burns.
Really interesting points. Re: the growth rates in Pakistan and Vietnam... is there reason to believe it won't hit a peak in these countries and then slow down as it has in the U.S.? Do you think these countries will be as great a threat to the United States' ability to maintain any sort of authority online as China is?
yes, we're still very self-centered when it comes to the Internet in this country. A form of technology imperialism/arrogance. And we know what happens to imperial empires, right?
This blog addresses an issue with many repercussions for U.S. companies and end users. As the world opens up more on the Net, so will issues of browser capabilities such as foreign language translation; issues of security; issues of content and marketing -- just to review the very tip of the iceberg.
Firms ignore the growth of worldwide Web activity at their own peril.
Steve and Nicole are at HCL's Unstructure conference at Disneyworld where Malcolm Gladwell and his hair gave a fascinating keynote on the advantages of being an "outsider."
President Obama appoints a Twitter CEO to an advisory committee; Rep. Anthony Weiner sends a racy, career-damaging Tweet; and Nicole and Steve laaaaaugh and laaaaaugh.
Saunders predicts the decline and fall of America’s Internet empire, and explains how the Internet of the future will be multi-lingual as well as multi-national.
With the number of mobile broadband users more than doubling in 2009, and soon to exceed fixed broadband, the Internet saw a historic transition this year – and the long-term effects are incalculable.
Many enterprises view high-speed broadband connections as ubiquitous. Yet in about 20 percent of the country, businesses and their employees do not have access to even DSL connections. This shortcoming diminishes enterprises' ability to support their employees.
Sites like Speedtest.net, which use data from users to construct a new picture of what the Net looks like, are making it harder and harder for service provider spin merchants to mislead the public about how much broadband capacity they are really getting.
Comcast and other broadband providers just might exempt content they own from counting against consumer Internet usage caps. Would that make their broadband services more desirable?
Comparing Internet services is tough because service providers price and market their services based on a best-case scenario connection that most consumers will never enjoy.
How do you recognize an Internet bubble when you see one? Saunders explains how all bubbles have four symptoms in common – and takes a swipe at Google and Twitter into the bargain.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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