See our new paper estimating the growth of consumer bandwidth – or our capacity to communicate – from 2000 to 2008. We found:
U.S. consumer bandwidth at the end of 2008 totaled more than 717 terabits per second, yielding, on a per capita basis, almost 2.4 megabits per second of communications power.
In my first, lone, measly, pathetic tweet a month ago, I asked if the whole Twitter thing was a “Revolution? Time-waster? Both?”
Now we may know. The information evading the official government walls and making its way out of Iran on YouTube and Twitter may answer my question: “Revolution” — literally.
After the EU antitrust authority today leveled a €1.06 billion fine against Intel, the company’s general counsel Bruce Sewell gave an illuminating interview to CNBC:
We better come up with a better way to restrict the EU’s range of motion on these matters. Sewell called the action “arbitrary.” The CNBC reporters called it a “shakedown.” They’re both right. Read rest of post »
