Tag «Internet»

It’s not about the technology. Faster, better internet needs different financing models

Best-connected users have 200 times greater internet capacity than do users in parts of Africa and Asia. By 2040, closing the connectivity gap will require a $1 trillion investment There is a disconnect between the exponential growth of internet use, infrastructure demands of next-generation technologies and current financing models New World Economic Forum report highlights …

Blockchain: The Next Generation of the Internet

Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, signals the beginning of a new era of the internet that will be defined by value rather than information, according to a World Economic Forum white paper However, its potential for transforming industries and society will require new kinds of cooperation between stakeholders Blockchain authorities Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott …

Over four in five APAC online consumers access the internet daily on their smartphones: GfK

Messaging apps are most utilised with over half agreeing that they text more than talk on their smartphones Singapore, July 13, 2016 – With the escalating penetration of smartphones and improving internet infrastructure across APAC, the mobile device has become consumers’ primary gateway to the internet. According to a recent GfK study, accessing the internet …

Internet is disrupting life, says Gul Panag

Internet is disrupting life, says Gul Panag Chandigarh, Nov 8: In a session on ‘Virtually Yours’ at Literati 2015 here at the Lake Club today morning, cofounder of Chandigarh Literary Society (CLS) and author Vivek Atray moderated a session with Gul Panag, Chandra Shekhar Varma and Sandeep Roy discussing the way digital media is changing …

Silver Peak Sets Sights on New Enterprise Network: Unifies Cloud, Internet, and WAN on Single Fabric

Silver Peak Unity Shines Light on Shadow IT  August 14, 2014 – Silver Peak today unveiled Unity, a groundbreaking intelligent wide area network (WAN) fabric that unifies the enterprise network with the public cloud.  Unlike traditional WAN optimization solutions, Unity correlates information about cloud services and Internet “weather” to intelligently route traffic over a secure, …