Don't get tempted by this. I live in Palo Alto and allowed myself to be enticed by the Sonic.net's advertised promise
of "... Broadband at up to 20Mbps ...".
I actually got 1.5 Mbps download speed.
I would not have been tempted had they been
advertising "Broadband speeds 1.5 Mbps - 20 Mbps.
You may get lucky and be on the high end or you may not."
Vivek Wadhwa, like Rafiq Dossani and AnnaLee Saxenian before him, has been making too many wild extrapolations. Yes, a few start-up type Indian companies will innovate and progress. A larger number of large established companies are likely to take on global competitors successfully.
India taking on Silicon Valley? Won't happen for a long, long time.
- An Indian living in Silicon Valley.
It is a feature of Gmail and I think that it is great. Person_A registers [email protected]. All mail sent to franzjosef@, franz.josef@, franzjos.ef@, fra.nzjosef@ will end up in person A's Gmail account. Now someone wishing to send an e-mail to another Franz Josef (Person_B) but not being sure of his Gmail address guesses and sends it to Person A's Gmail address.
Not Google's fault.
Google will not let let another person register franzjosef@ with or without a period in any location. All periods are ignored.