Tom Foremski
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Subsidies and the Net: How Much is Enough?
Google is the world’s single largest user of Internet bandwidth. But it doesn’t have to pay for most of the bandwidth it consumes, in the form of its spiderbots copying web pages, and YouTube video streams. A study in December 2008 estimated Google’s ‘free’ bandwidth use to be about $6.9 billion, today it could be ...
Wireless Telcos fear Google will turn them into ‘dumb pipes’ – they will hit back
Marguerite Reardon over at CNET has put together an excellent report on theMobile World Congress 2010 GSMA in Barcelona. It is the most important conference for the wireless Telco industry. And this year, there was a lot of concern about the growing power of Apple and also Google. The wireless Telco companies are banding together ...
The Inside Scoop: Newspapers Hate Attribution
The New York Times published this on its ‘Corrections‘ section: …a Times reporter appears to have improperly appropriated wording and passages published by other news organizations. The reporter, Zachery Kouwe, reused language from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and other sources without attribution or acknowledgment. The Times was alerted to the problem by editors at ...
iPad, iHad: Apple and Its Propensity to Delete
David Ridsdale pointed me to this excellent article by Frederic Filloux: The iParanoid Scenario. He writes about French privacy laws that enable judges to rule that a news magazine, or any other type of publication, has to be with withdrawn because it contains information that has violated privacy laws. France has a long history of ...
Google Buzz Might Naturally Repel Self-Promoters
I’m still trying to figure out the best way to use Google Buzz. But, already, I’ve had to ‘unfollow’ people such as Robert Scoble and Louis Gray because they are way too ‘noisy’ they crowd out everyone else in my stream. I have had others unfollow me too because my Twitter stream was feeding directly ...
MySpace is Not Yet Dead
Om Malik over on GigaOm seems to confuse office politics at MySpace with the demise of the social network. Rupert Murdoch’s $580 million MySpace purchase has outlived not only its utility, but has also finally hit its expiration date. That last step came with the announcement this afternoon that Owen Van Natta was stepping down ...
We Need New Computing Architecture
Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a former chief strategist at IBM and he has also worked as GM of IBM’s supercomputer group. In this post: Extreme Scale Computing he explains the challenges that supercomputers face in reaching the next stage: 1,000 times more powerful than current petaflop (1 followed by 15 zeros) supercomputers. The challenge in getting ...
Will About.com Be On The Chopping Block?
Niki Scevak, over on Bronte Media has a knack for delving into financial numbers and coming up with a new angle on familiar stories. Here, he takes a look at the New York Times Company’s recent financial quarter, which was generally considered good in that Internet advertising did not decline – the first time in ...
It Takes Two Men to Replace SAP CEO Léo Apotheker
SAP, the world’s largest business software company, said Léo Apotheker has been replaced as CEO. The SAP Executive Board, in agreement with the SAP Supervisory Board, has appointed two Co-CEOs: Bill McDermott, head of field organization and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development, both already members of the SAP Executive Board. Dennis Howlett, on ...
Foremski’s Angle: Brusilovsky Situation a Result of Low (or No) Wages
[Editor’s Note: Tom Foremski has a great deal of experience, having worked at the Financial Times as a news reporter and columnist. While John and I have a combination of strong editorial and business experience, Foremski’s been around the journalism block more than both of us, so he knows of which he speaks. –mrh] This ...