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Electricity probably has to be one of the greatest inventions mankind has ever realized. Opening the door to a host of devices that we use literally daily, electricity is the perfect kilowatt slave, as some like to refer to it. It asks little of us, and provides a great deal in return, from heating, to cooling, cooking, entertainment, and so much more. But electricity depends on a vast infrastructure to keep it operating to its fullest, and it's an infrastructure that's proving increasingly fragile. Google, in that way Google does, wants to change all that by getting more people generating power, and has launched the Little Box Challenge in a bid to fix that. Even if AT&T second quarter earnings predictably were lead by mobile segment gains, what is happening in the fixed network segment might strike some as more significant, given the pressures that segment faces. Hotel Wi-Fi Test is a company that specializes in collecting, analyzing, and distributing data about the quality of Wi-Fi in hotels around the world. Its main function is to perform comprehensive speed tests for various hotels and centralize this information in a database, which is then made available to travelers. However, the company has by no means managed to collect data for every hotel in the world so they have introduced a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm to provide the best estimate possible for those that have yet to be tested. Hoping to put the costly and extended failed experiment of 3D TV in the rearview mirror, the video industry is working hard to make ultra HD (aka 4K TV) a reality-despite the high cost of capable TV sets and a dearth of programming shot in the higher-resolution format. Revenue sources really are changing in the U.S. access provider market. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is the issue. Cable operators might argue the persistence of video as the dominating revenue category is a good thing, as it shows ability to protect its market. Never have I seen such an ebb and flow as with cell phones and smartphones. Back in the mid-1990s, the goal was to get the cell phone into as small a package as possible. I once knew someone who had a Motorola flip phone that was literally the size of a small matchbox. Of course, back then the only thing that the screen displayed was the incoming phone number and on a device that small, a three line display made it easier to read the number. Rumor has it that Microsoft is planning to announce its strategic future beyond Windows after its next earnings report. Can Microsoft abandon its core focus, finding new businesses and investing in fundamental research to discover new things; IBM did. NVIDIA is choosing a different vector with their Shield Tablet; instead of focusing on productivity, invulnerability, reading, or shopping they are focusing on gaming, and their new Shield Tablet is an impressing piece of hardware. Take rates for higher-speed Internet access services, and net tablet and video entertainment connections, were a few of the operational trends that stand out in Verizon's second quarter results. For the past several years, Chinese citizens have been taking to the Internet like wildfire. This rapid growth has cemented the country as the reigning champion for having the largest Internet population in the world. However, this expansion appears to have hit a minor stumbling block, due to the fact that most of the larger cities are already connected. A large majority of the remaining potential Internet users are in rural locations where the Internet is hard to build out to, and the added fact that these residents have a low level of education means that they have very few reasons to want or use an Internet connection in the first place.
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