Jerry Brito

A Laptop Comes Preloaded With the Web, Abridged

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There has been a lot of buzz today about startup Webaroo, which has announced a deal with Acer. The company’s technology basically puts a copy of what it judges to be the juiciest bits of the Web on your laptop so that the Web is (mostly) still available to you even when an internet connection is not. I like the premise behind this, “that the price of storage will drop faster than broadband will spread.” However, is leisurely web surfing what people do on the road with laptops? It seems to me that the net app on laptops is e-mail, and you still need a connection for that. What I think its overlooked is that you don’t need a broadband connection to download e-mail, which is generally mostly text. Maybe what we need to see is a low-speed, little-spectrum service that’s only fast enough for laptops to grab e-mail and IMs. Couldn’t this be done using a little bit of FM radio spectrum (like SPOT watches) or just a subset of wireless broadband spectrum?

Apr 10, 2006 | Comments