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Here Comes Trouble: MIPS For Broadband

December 18th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

Source:GigaOM
Much talk lately has been devoted to the “Let’s write off the web office suite” theory. To prove the naysayers wrong, Google is slowly signing up Internet service providers for a “white label” version of its offerings.

For instance, the company today said it has inked a deal with satellite Internet service provider Wildblue that will […]Source:GigaOM
Given that the average talking Hallmark greeting card probably consumes more than a single MIPS and the $600 PC used by a typical 16-year-old to post videos on Facebook sports an Intel Core Duo chip capable of 27,000 MIPS, the tracking of MIPS no longer generates much excitement. While the availability and performance of connectivity represents the primary input gating progress today, the hunt for broadband still lacks an equivalent metric.

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