source: mb.com.ph
In a wired world, Internet access, especially the broadband variety (Is there any other kind of Internet access that matters?), helps determine a country’s have or have-not status.
While some readily dismiss it as an invention of the left-leaning, bleeding-heart liberals, the digital divide does exist. And it is something that handicaps the poor whether they are from the developed world or are residing in the world’s emerging or poorer countries.
Lack of reliable and affordable access to the World Wide Web seriously hampers the poor’s ability to equip themselves with tools that can help them pull themselves out of the socio-economic holes they are in. Online access, after all, is a great equalizer. It levels up the field, allowing everybody a fighting chance, a stab at making better his or her lot.
Providing consumers with broadband access to the Internet, hence, is not merely a source of revenue for our service providers. These companies, with their government-issued (that is, by the people or consumers themselves) licenses to operate as service providers and permits to use the airwaves, ideally, are empowering their customers by providing them with access to the Internet.
I hope that the leaders of our telcos and cable TV companies would always keep this in mind. They should strive to always provide their consumers with stable and reliable broadband service.
A balance between working for an ever increasing share of the market and providing the best service should be their top priority at all times. Too much emphasis on profit and beating the hell out of their competitors would ultimately bring no good to everyone concerned.
Not Invited
Microsoft has reportedly excluded HTC Corp. from its list of Windows 8/RT product development party. Citing HTC’s lack of experience in developing tablet computers and that the Taiwan hardware vendor is not selling enough devices, the software giant barred HTC from joining the high-tech industry’s latest jab at removing Apple from the top of the tablet totem pole.
Microsoft, however, has not ruled out HTC’s participation in the next rounds of Windows 8/RT product development.
Chrome in Windows 8
After much ado, Google’s Chrome Web browser is going to be added into Microsoft’s Windows 8 Metro.
Google is reportedly developing a Metro-capable version of the desktop browser, one that will run in both the Metro and desktop modes of Windows 8 on x86 computers.
Chrome, however, will not run in Windows RT (or Windows 8 designed to run on ARM processor-equipped devices).
Steve Jobs Who?
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell has committed the gravest affront possible against the cult of the Mac.
Gladwell, at an interview in Toronto, claimed that in 50 years, people will have no idea who Steve Jobs is. People, however, will be building statues for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who, according to the author will remain famous due to this philanthropy works.
That’s all for the meantime, folks. Join me again next time as we keep on watching IT. (Allan D. Francisco)
source: mb.com.ph
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