Morgan Stanley has published a very detailed report on the state of the mobile internet. Best of all, for free. (How did that happen? But then, I’m not complaining …) Out of the hundreds of slides, I’m quoting two which speak for themselves. Notice that ARPU is going down at the same time many markets [...]
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Johannes Ernst on December 18th, 2009
It was at the end of 2004 when I decided to start telling the world about this silly little idea I had had about a year before: give every person on the internet a URL that they could use to identify themselves to any website. Fully decentralized, no permission needed from anybody, under control of [...]
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I wanted to write about this for a long time. A wait in the doctor’s office has its uses … Here is an example scenario from the real world: Like many schools these days, my son’s school has a website where teachers enter current assignments and grades, and students and parents like me can check [...]
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Spot the Difference: Yahoo/Facebook vs. Government/Health IT
Or should have said “spot the similarities”? Today, two pieces of news came in right after each other: The US Federal Government’s Beacon Community Program has been given $235 million of taxpayer money for “… interoperable health IT and standards-based information exchange within and among providers, hospitals, and populations” “within 15 diverse communities throughout the [...]
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