Archive for April 27th, 2008

Broadband 2.0 finally comes the US

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Verizon and Comcast are rolling out the next generation of high-speed technology to limited markets. The new connections are going to deliver about 25 times the rate of the average broadband connections that are most widely available today. Verizon's FiOS has been available to folks in a number of states ...

Little publicized problems with micro-credit

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

This is a bit off-topic for a blog about technology, but I posted yesterday about micro-credit financing helping people in Bangladesh setup phone business and want to follow-up with something I've found. Micro-credit has been touted as a great capitalist solution to poverty. A small loan and hard work should ...