Global Dreams for a Wireless Web »

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SITTING on the porch at Finca Torrenova, his 800-acre retreat on this Mediterranean island, Martin Varsavsky ticks off the credentials of the group of Internet entrepreneurs finishing lunch at a nearby table.
“He has 40 million uniques, he has 50 million, and he has 8 million,” Mr. Varsavsky says, referring to the [...]

Why Is The Internet Sometimes So Slow? Internet ‘Black Holes’ May Be To Blame »

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You’re trying to log on to a Web site and it’s not working. You try again and again. But persistence doesn’t pay off. The site you want is inexplicably, frustratingly, out of reach.
The other computer might just be turned off, but the causes could be more mysterious. At any given moment, a [...]

What Do Venture Capitalists Know? »

The National Venture Capital Association surveyed 170 of its members, and this is their collective wisdom for 2008:
The sectors VCs are most bullish about are Clean Tech, Media, Biotech, and the Internet, in that order:

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A Third Industrial Revolution »

The pivotal economic changes in world history occur when new energy regimes converge with new communication regimes. Today, the technology that made possible the IT and internet revolutions is coming together with renewable energy and hydrogen and fuel cell storage technology to create the foundation for a third industrial revolution and a post-carbon, post-nuclear era. [...]

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