Intel is investing in wireless chipmaker PicoChip, which just raised $20.5 million from Intel, Rothschild, Atlas Ventures and Pond Venture Partners. Intel has teamed up with ArrayComm for its smart antenna technology. S&P’s Ken Leon is impressed with the whole WiMAX space in general! Read more »
Rep Pete Sessions hates munibroadband. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) love muni-broadband and will introduce legislation, Community Broadband Act of 2005, that empowers municipalities to offer low-cost broadband service. More details here and here! via Read more »
Long live IP, the great revenue deflator! In-Stat says total consumer spending on communications will fall to $106.7 billion in 2009 from $114.8 billion in 2004. There go the voice sales! Broadband, however will grow from 28.6% market penetration in 2004 to nearly 50% by the […] Read more »
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The Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC is undoubtedly the most powerful Tablet PC available to the consumer market currently, competing with many notebook computers spec for spec. The anticipation for the Tecra M4 to start appearing in owner’s hands spurred a lot of interest on various […] Read more »
I am attending the Handango Partner Summit in Miami and I have to admit surprise at the number of attendees, most of whom are mobile software developers and company representatives who have online stores at Handango. It has been a good first day with the opportunity […] Read more »
At their core, eBay and Google pretty much do the same thing: they match buyers with sellers. eBay does it directly, while Google does it indirectly through advertisement links. But don’t be surprised if in the future Google becomes a lot more direct in its approach. Read more »
Absolutely brilliant! Read more »
Erik Lagerway, the co-founder of softphone client maker XTen has resigned. Larry Timlick, a Cisco executive, will replace him at the company. mark Bruk, the other co-founder of the company is still the CEO/Chairman. XTen which has gained a lot of traction with major VoIP and […] Read more »
It will do market trials in a town near Denver. No idea as to whose technology they will use. Rocky Mountain News says, “Qwest has been testing WiMax among its employees in Denver and in Rio Rancho, N.M., northwest of Albuquerque.” Read more »
Sky is still giving interviews by the dozen. Andy thinks “that there is more to this than just 3G EvDO based wireless coming down the pike.” Read more »
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The yet unnamed phone to make debut in the 4Q 2005. Read more »
It can be found here! Read more »
Yahoo and Google might be in a mortal combat with each other, but from the looks of it, Google is getting all set to take on sBay. (Charlene Li of Forrester explains it here!) There is that much talked about Google’s Pay Pal killer. (Silicon Beat […] Read more »
I have been following Rob Bushway’s journey with his new Motion LE1600 Tablet PC with great interest as it appears Motion has raised the bar for slates with this new device. Rob has spent some time with his LE1600 now and has published a great review […] Read more »
GreenHouse has announced the July availability of their Pocket Speakers in Japan. Not much is known about these speakers outside of the small dimensions and the 3 watt total output. But they look cool. (via Akihabara News) Read more »
The ThunderHawk browser has long been my favorite web browser for the Pocket PC as it provides the most "full desktop-like" browsing experience on the small screens of the Windows Mobile devices. Bitstream has announced a new version 2.1 that offers full Java capabilities making the […] Read more »
Things are not looking good in VoIP land, and some of the marginal players are feeling the pressure of resurgent cable operators, and scorch earth tactics of Vonage. Presence of natural born channels AOL and Yahoo is giving some people a pause. e911 is proving to […] Read more »
Rob Glaser was busy building bowling alleys and buying shiny baubles when he should have been obsessing over his company, Real, which started out as the king of streaming media, but lost its way and handed over the lead to the likes of Microsoft and lately […] Read more »
Microsoft’s IPTV effort has received another set-back. A few weeks after Swisscom, an early Microsoft IPTV adopter delayed its IPTV plans because of technical issues, Australian incumbent, Telstra announced that it was not going to be taking part in trials with Microsoft. Australian telecom giant, Telstra […] Read more »
Jeff says Dell is a lemon. Silicon.com says Apple is a lemon. So much for technological progress. Funny thing – we go ape-shit when tires blow up, but don’t sue the tech companies. Wake up consumers! Read more »
Folks, some good news to share. Always On Network and Technorati have just released their AO/Technorati Open Media 100 and I am on the list in the “Practitioners” category. It gives me a tingle for if you look at all the heavy weights in the list. […] Read more »
So the city is going to kill its hot-zone project. Expect this to show up as exhibit A in some Heartland Institute report… soon! via Read more »
The New York Times has a piece on small businesses off-shoring. Great idea–so great, in fact, that we did it as our cover last month. Maybe the NYT ought to outsource originality! Read more »
So far it has been ignored by most of the mobile world, but things are changing, The Feature says! Read more »
Nearly two-thirds of all new wireless users will be Asia. China and India being big part of the overall action! Read more »
It isn’t a product which you can use or test with, it’s a bunch of proposed algorithms. Read more »
It started with low-awareness deals like 3Com’s partnership with Huawei. Then came the big whopper of a deal – Lenovo Group snapping up IBM’s PC business for $ 1.75 billion. Today comes news that Chinese appliance maker Haier is looking to make a bid for Maytag […] Read more »
Jack St. Clair Kilby, retired TI engineer and inventor of the integrated circuit, died yesterday in Dallas following a brief battle with cancer. He was 81. Mr. Kilby invented the first monolithic integrated circuit, which laid the foundation for the field of modern microelectronics, moving the […] Read more »
And that’s wonderful news for Cisco and Juniper, the current #1 and #2. Things are getting hot in the edge routers! Read more »
A quick and handy guide to transfer your saved TV shows to your PSP. Read more »
Will consumers buy MobileTV on phones? no one knows, but chips keep rolling! Read more »
the artists formally known as the telecom consulting and M&A practice of RHK Inc. Read more »
Today I am off to the Handango Partner Summit in Miami which I expect will be a lot of fun. It’s a good opportunity to see what Handango is up to and also get to meet some of the Microsoft Tablet team. I intend to keep […] Read more »
Quick call 911 for Ali Diab, Sr Director Yahoo Local Search Products is no longer with Yahoo it seems. Not sure where he’s gone (yet). He has been one of those much respected search guys who “got it.” Yahoo Search blog had a couple of interviews […] Read more »
Now that most media has run of most of the nice things to say about iPod, it is perhaps time to bring down the iconic music player a notch or two from its perch at the top of digital music totem pole. Or so goes the […] Read more »
and because all the good names were taken! Read more »
Good question, no good answers really! Read more »
First the Cox family, now the Dolans. What next? Roberts? Malone? Thank god the Rigas are not on the loose! Read more »
and might be sneaking its way back to the Senate via Senate Appropriations Committee spending bill, ala Real ID Act. Read more »
Hollywood Reporter says that according to Entertainment Media Research around 35% of music consumers now download tracks legally via the Internet and the percentage will soon pass the 40% who have pirated music. Proof, that when given an option, consumers always do the right thing. And […] Read more »
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