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National Broadband Map is Released

You can play around with it at http://broadbandmap.gov/. Click on the image for a larger view.

One instructive bit of data is the typical downstream bandwidth of fixed networks compared to wireless networks.

At lower speeds one can make the argument that wireless is a substitute product, compared to fixed-line service, at speeds up to about 3 Mbps.

After that, fixed line service has a huge advantage. Of course, mobile bandwidth is increasing, with fourth generation networks. But fixed-line keeps growing as well, so the gap will remain.

Apple, Google Ramp Up Tablet Content Efforts

Apple and Google have stepped up their tablet content efforts. Google's new One Pass service allows consumers to use one account to pay for access to multiple publications on the Web and across a range of mobile devices.

The move comes one day after Apple laid out a subscription service for content sold through its iPhone and iPad devices, an offering that some publishers greeted skeptically. Apple would take a 30% cut on sales of subscriptions in its iTunes App Store.

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U.S. is Now the 4G Laboratory

The rapid deployment of WiMAX, HSPA and LTE networks by six carriers makes the United States the most competitive 4G market in the world. This competition will drive innovative pricing plans, content and service policies, as well as provide a testing arena for the rest of the world.

The biggest questions revolve around the matter of new applications enabled by 4G. Mobile operators faced the same sorts of questions when they launched 3G services, and it took what in retrospect looks like an inordinately long time before the question was answered. Mobile web access has proven to be the big revenue difference between 3G and 2G. It might take a while before we can answer the same question about 4G.

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Apple’s 30% And Google’s 10% Fees Are Too High?

The most important outcome of this week’s emerging tussle between Apple and Google is that we are about to have an intense and financially difficult conversation about what a fair price is for delivering customers to developers, publishers, and producers.

Economically, this is one of the most critical issues that has to be resolved for the future of electronic content. Very soon, a majority of consumer experiences (that which we used to refer to as the media) will be digital. But not until the people who will develop those experiences have unambiguous, market-clearing rules for how they can expect to profit from those experiences.

The question comes down to this: Is 30% a fair price for Apple to charge?

Apple’s 30% And Google’s 10% Fees Are Too High | Forrester Blogs

Will Video Follow Music?

There are reasons to believe the video industry will not follow the music industry as the shift from physical media to online and mobile delivery occurs.

But it has to be worrisome that the great age of compact disc music resembles the great age of DVD sales and rentals.

Kaspersky Believes Android Will Get 80% Share

Computer security expert Eugene Kaspersky predicts Google's Android smart phone operating system will come to dominate the market, reducing Apple and BlackBerry to niche players. Android could wind up with 80 percent of the installed base, Kaspersky maintains.

Kaspersky argues there is only “one company, one operating system which follows Microsoft's strategy of the 1990s” when its Windows computer operating system became dominant on personal computers.

Of course, that view assumes the mobile computing market will mirror the desktop computing market, and many would contest that notion.

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