That’s right. The Internet was nominated for the illustrious prize by the Italian edition of Wired magazine, according to the institute.
Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, has acknowledged that the Internet’s nomination has become widely known. Lundestad added that Riccardo Luna, editor-in-chief of the Italian edition of Wired nominated the Internet for the prize.
The 237 nominees, including 38 organizations, are part of the largest group to vie for the annual prize. “It is easy to be nominated, difficult to win the prize,” Lundestad added.
Internet is up for a Nobel Prize
The internet and TV are colliding. Or, as the industry calls it, converging. James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research, says viewers are desperate to bring the everything-on-demand philosophy they have got used to on the internet to television. His firm estimates that 9 million Americans already connect their laptops to the television to watch videos -– everything from camcorder clips, through YouTube and Hulu (a broadcaster-funded venture similar to the BBC’s iPlayer), to movies downloaded via file-sharing services.
“Internet-connected television is already happening in the US in larger numbers than people are aware. It is just that people are doing it in a DIY capacity. This is not rocket science any more: you walk your laptop into the living room and use a VGA cable to connect it to your TV. But while it is not rocket science, it is not drop-dead simple either, so the fact that 9 million people do it even periodically is amazing.
TV through the internet is here to stay
Governments like Finland and Luxembourg want to deliver in the next five years fibre-to-the-home to the vast majority of their populations,” explained Paolo Campoli, director of solutions and business development at Cisco European and Emerging Markets.
“Finland has on the agenda 100Mbps by 2015 and 1Gbps by 2020, and I see other nations doing something similar.” He insists the eventual proliferation of 4G standards such as WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE), which have been trialled at locations in the UK and Scandinavia in the past year, will also justify the ballooning bandwidth volume.
In comparison US expects 100 million households to have Internet service of at least 100 megabits per second by 2020. These speeds are at least 10 times faster than Internet speeds most U.S. residents get today but slower then goal set by others for 2020.
Some countries will lead the way with Internet speed
Google’s Android broke 50,000 apps in April 2010. While this is only a quarter of the apps Apple has with approx 200,000, it sure makes these two platforms the leaders. When looking at the smartphone market leader RIM Blackberry who only has approx 6500 apps and then last decades leader Palm with only 2000 apps. [...]
Posted On: April 29, 2010
Media Giant Plans to Crank Out Scores of iPhone Applications, Hoping 99-Cent Sales Add Up
Hearst, best known as a publisher of magazines and newspapers, is jumping into the business of developing software applications, or “apps,” for use on Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Hearst is focusing its apps on what it knows best: information, mainly in the [...]
The AppSlice Web site reports that just 16,700 of the more than 140,000 applications that developers have created for the iPhone and iPod touch have been certified as iPad-compatible so far.
