We noted late last year that there had been an explosion in emerging mobile payments platforms. Since that time we have seen a lot more announcements by the handset manufacturers, credit card companies, the major banks, Google, PayPal and the occasional Silicon Valley start-up (Think: Square) about how the mobile phone has the potential change the way… [Read more…]
August 25, 2010
You may remember an early post Let’s call it the Google in which we explored the Morgan Stanley’s Mobile Internet Report that revealed the World Wide Online Advertising ARPU was estimated in 2009 at $46.41 and that $20.06 of that belongs to Google. SAI produced a chart in March this year based on similar figures that revealed… [Read more…]
August 19, 2010
So is the web expanding rapidly or is it cooling? That’s the debate that Wired’s The Web is Dead article has fueled this month. Even the New York Times has entered into the debate by publishing Boing Boing’s charts from their Is the Web really dead? counter post. But is it the right question? After all it… [Read more…]
August 17, 2010
The investment in the National Broadband Network remains a hot topic both here in Australia and in the US. Indeed there are even reports that decision makers US may be taking an active interest in what the Australian Federal Government is trying to achieve with the NBN. (See SMH Our network choice: cheap and slow… [Read more…]
August 10, 2010
When we think of the web we tend to have a mental picture that looks something like one of those destinations maps you see in the back of the in-flight magazine. We have the major hubs (e.g. O’Hare, JFK, LAX, Heathrow, Hong Kong and Dubai) and the remote locations. The hubs have the most connections.… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
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