The 60 Minutes interview with Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson is up on the web, but one of the most interesting parts is an outtake that didn’t make it into the televised segment. In it, we hear Steve Jobs talking about his rivals directly from some of Isaacson’s taped interviews. While Jobs was withering in...
Netherlands, one of the most progressive countries when it comes to broadband has now become a nation with the highest broadband connectivity, according to Akamai’s The State of the Internet report for the second quarter of 2011. Akamai data shows that unrelenting march of broadband continues unabated all across our planet. Not only are the number of broadband...
It may seem counterintuitive, but in the cloud computing era, location does matter, at least when it comes to where data is stored and processed. Data centers are becoming the market exchanges of the new digital economy so the closer a business can put its data–and compute power–to its users and partners, the better. That’s...
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We already know what Steve Jobs thinks about Microsoft and Google. (He’s not a fan, to put it mildly.) But, what does he think of Facebook, the upstart tech company that’s quickly taking over world? In interviews with his biographer Walter Isaacson, he says, “You know we talk about social networks in the plural...
Local transactions by Kenya’s mobile money service, M-Pesa currently exceeds transactions made by Western Union globally, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reports. According to the IMF, “M-Pesa now processes more transactions domestically within Kenya than Western Union does globally, and provides mobile banking facilities to more than 70 per cent of the country’s adult...
General elections began this morning in Argentina when 28 million registered voters were able to elect a new President and Vice-President, 24 senators, 130 deputies to the lower house of Parliament as well as nine provincial governors. Facing such an important event, Google decided to participate and developed a series of initiatives around the election....