Archive for August 2010
The Internet in 2025, according to Cisco
Cisco and the Monitor Group’s Global Business Network have published “The Evolving Internet, a report that “examines the driving forces and uncertainties that will shape the Internet – and the $US3 trillion market it enables – from now through 2025.”
According to Cisco, the report’s findings “culminate in four illustrative scenarios, designed to help decision-makers in both technology companies and government understand, anticipate, and manage key changes, risks, and opportunities so that the Internet’s potential to create economic and social value can be realized globally.”
The report, Cisco says, “outlines five powerful trends already underway that provide a common foundation for any scenarios on the Internet’s future. These trends relate to the global composition and governance of the Internet, generational differences, interface technology, and pricing models for connectivity.”
The report’s four scenarios “portray challenging and distinctive alternative stories about how the world might unfold.” They are:
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‘Overrated’ Digg causes more debate than Time’s Top 50 Websites of 2010
TIME magazine has released its list of the 50 best websites of 2010.
In a sometimes strained bid to remove itself from the predictability of last year’s list – which included Google, YouTube, Facebook and Skype – Time’s Top 50 Websites of 2010 has opted to give some of the smaller hitters a boost in 2010.
Vimeo is more intuitive than YouTube. Gowalla is more fun than Foursquare. LinkedIn and Tumblr have surpassed Facebook and Twitter.
WikiLeaks has made the top five News & Info list, but then again, so has The Onion.
But it seems the big announcement from Time has been outdone by its own complementary piece, “The Five Most Overrated Websites”.
NewSat woos independents, attacks NBN
Satellite operator NewSat has launched a broadside against the National Broadband Network calling on the three independent MPs who hold the key to forming the next federal government to look at alternative technology solutions.
In a half page advertisement which ran in this morning’s Australian Financial Review NewSat chief executive officer Adrian Ballantine published an open letter headlined “exploding the broadband myth” in which he strove to draw parallels between the independent MPs and his independent communications company. He said the independent MPs needed to be fully informed when making decisions that might impact the rollout of a national broadband communications network. (View full post here)
iTWire – NewSat woos independents, attacks NBN: http://bit.ly/avKg26 via @addthis
NBN under scrutiny by country MPs
Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott, the ABC’s Chris Uhlmann, Adam Bandt and Bob Katter at the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture: Gary Ramage Source: The Australian
INDEPENDENT MP Tony Windsor has questioned the $43 billion National Broadband Network price tag, describing it as a “fictitious number”.
Tasmanian Government Innovation Strategy builds on NBN
The NBN’s uncertain future notwithstanding, Tasmania’s premier, David Bartlett has launched an innovation strategy spanning five sectors of the state’s economy but with a strong focus on the NBN and the state’s digital economy.
He said the chosen sectors – agriculture, renewable energy, the digital economy, lifestyle and tourism – had been identified by the Australian Innovation Research Centre in its report, An Innovation Strategy for Tasmania A New Vision for Economic Development: Conceptual Overview and Options Outline, presented by Professor Jonathan West in late 2009, and that many of the initiatives had been designed to strengthen and support small businesses.
“Small businesses will be critical to the strategy‘s success, because they make up 95 percent of private sector employment in Tasmania’s food processing and agriculture sectors, and 90 percent in tourism,” Bartlett said.
The premier said initiatives to support the innovation strategy, including those in the 2010-11 State Budget, included, for the digital economy:
- $5.85m over two years for the sector to increase awareness of the opportunities provided by the digital economy;
- $0.6m on a number of strategies to grow awareness levels, including establishing a hands-on digital coaching pilot and a digital tool kit for small businesses;
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