The number of Americans with access to high-speed Internet connections either at home or work is growing. As of March 1, the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 68 million adult Americans log on via broadband either at home or work. Fully 48 million adult Americans have broadband connections at home. For the first time, more than half (52%) of a key demographic group college educated people age 35 and younger has broadband connections at home. But this trend will have absolutely no impact on time spent listening to your local radio station. Everything is fine. Go back to your homes.
Category Archives: Science & Technology
DSL service
My local ISP buys ADSL service from Sprint and sells it to me for $50 per month (512K up/128K down). If I sign-up directly with Sprint, I can get 1.5M up/384K down, for $60 per month. This must change.
US broadband penetration
US broadband penetration Jumps to 45.2% – US Internet penetration nearly 75%.
Kodak to stop selling film cameras
Eastman Kodak Co. on Tuesday said it will stop selling traditional film cameras in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, another move by the troubled photography company to cut lines with declining appeal in favor of fast-growing digital products.
Jakob Nielsen on Clutter
“Saying less often communicates more. Our lives are littered with extraneous details that smother salient information. Each little piece of useless chatter is relatively innocent, and only robs us of a few seconds. The cumulative effect, however, is much worse: we assume that most communication is equally useless and tune it out, thus missing important information that’s sometimes embedded in the mess.” Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, August 11, 2003