Oliver Chiang serves up a bunch of good metrics on the digital decade that was. Here are a few: – Number of e-mails sent per day in 2000: 12 billion – Number of e-mails sent per day in 2009: 247 billion – Revenues from mobile data services in the first half of 2000: $105 million – [...]

It looks like Verizon’s explanation that it still loses money even after the increased Early Termination Fees (ETF) just won’t please some advocacy groups like Free Press and Consumer Union.  Verizon explained that while the increased ETF covers the raw cost of the phone, it does not cover other costs like marketing, commission, store costs, [...]

Tim Conneally of Betanews reports that Verizon responded to the FCC that it would still lose money even with the increased Early Termination Fee (ETF).  If a customer were to bail out of the contract at 12 months and paid a prorated $230, Verizon would still lose $460.

The “Global Information Industry Center” at the University of San Diego has produced their 2009 report on how much information Americans consume and they’ve quantified to to be  1.3 trillion hours and 3.6 zettabytes (3,000,000,000 terabytes) or 34 GB per person per day on average. The study provides some useful data on hourly usage, but [...]

In the current make up of the content provider/ISP/end-user trio, there are still questions pertaining to how and who payment should be coming from for the delivery of Internet content and services.

Sam Diaz made some great points in his blog posting “Bill aims to limit wireless early termination fees; Do we need this?” Senator Amy Klobucher (D-Minn) has put forth a bill that aims to limit the size of Early Termination Fees (ETF), but why?

Arts & Labs is hosting “New Media New Network: The evolution of content on the Internet”.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) has seemingly become a four letter word these days, or at least it evokes some four letter words from some frustrated consumers. Jeff Vogel who is both an avid consumer and producer of video games has had some nasty things to say about DRM in the past, but he he penned a few kind words for DRM in his most recent blog.