Carlini's Comments

More cities are starting to get concerned about funding services in recessionary times. Providing that consistent level of services needs to be ensured through the use of new technologies.

If you don’t understand that IT has become inextricably linked into the core business of most industries, then you don’t understand IT.

I had the opportunity last week to sit in on a traveling book presentation from Nicholas G. Carr. He’s a former Harvard Business Review editor.

How come we don’t have aggressive network marketing like this in the United States?

 

Over two years ago, I focused on the issue of making sure you got your money’s worth on network speeds and talked about seeing a network speedometer that you could always know how fast a speed you were getting (http://www.carliniscomments.com/archives/74-ARE-NETWORK-SPEEDOMETERS-A-MUST.html ).  My focus was to question the accuracy of service that the average consumer paid for.  Would you pay for a gallon of gas, if the pump was only pumping out three quarts and registering a gallon?  No way.