Archive for August, 2003

Typepad it is…

Om Malik, Saturday, August 16, 2003 at 5:08 PM PT Comments (0)

For past six weeks or so I have been experimenting with the new Typepad service, hoping to overcome some sort of server problems I am having with the old moveabletype install on my old server. It was crashing, and was failing to regenerate pages. No one it seems had an answer for why I was [...]

Oh Not so Always On

Om Malik, Friday, August 15, 2003 at 11:08 AM PT Comments (0)

New York Times is reporting that due to the black out when wireless phones failed, most people turned to landlines and evey pay phones. It makes me wonder, if all the progress in communications technology has really been worth it. After all if our cell phones do not work in a state of black out, [...]

Palm gets a new name later this week

Om Malik, Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 8:08 AM PT Comments (1)

There are some very smart people who work at Palm, and if they are dumb enough to change the company name from Palm to something, they would loose all brand power, and any real market traction they have. It will be sort of Coca Cola saying that they will stop calling themselves Coke and pick [...]

Fixed Wireless has its day

Om Malik, Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 8:08 AM PT Comments (0)

Business 2.0:: Don’t dismiss fixed wireless quite yet. True, early fixed-wireless startups like Telegint and Winstar racked up billion-dollar losses and died early deaths. But the technology, which supplies broadband connections via radio waves, has a lot of life left in it.

YahooBB Japan awash in red

Om Malik, Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 6:08 PM PT Comments (0)

Softbank’s high-speed Internet access service is costing Softbank President Masayoshi Son dearly - but has managed to sign up 3 million customers. Son claims that if the company did not advertise and market this heavily, it would have broken even. Well whatever, this is a smart bet and Son knows it. He has been selling [...]

And now for a real text sex scandal

Om Malik, Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 4:08 PM PT Comments (1)

Like Kobe, Warne is feeling the heatGuess not many people this side of the pond know who Shane Warne is but, there is word that the tough Aussie spinner has been sending lewd text messages and making dirty calls to a South African mother of three.
bq. Helen Cohen Alon made her allegations in a Johannesburg [...]

Greg Chappell on Sachin, Lara and Waugh

Om Malik, Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 4:08 PM PT Comments (1)

Frontline has a fantastic interview with Greg Chappell. The Aussie great is talking about everyone from Shane Warne, Steve Waugh, Sachin Tendular, Sunil Gavaskar, and Ricky Ponting. Read and Enjoy! By the way here is what he had to say about Sachin.
Nobody has such pressure on him as Sachin Tendulkar has from an expectation point [...]

Cricket, cinema and royalty

Om Malik, Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 10:08 AM PT Comments (0)

Can there be a more potent mixture? Three decades after he headed the Indian cricket team with such distinction and his begum won the hearts of cinegoers, the spell cast by the couple continues. The Pataudis Μό² Mansur Ali Khan and Sharmila Tagore Μό² embody the Indian dream of gracious living and togetherness. You [...]

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