Archive for November, 2003

Forget Wi-Fi! Get ready for Gi-Fi

Om Malik, Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 4:11 AM PT Comments (6)

Dev Gupta, for me has become a proxy for the next new and big thing. This time around he has cooked-up a plan to permanently replace the wired local area networks with ’super’ wireless network that can shuttle data at speeds of up to two gigabits per second. Sounds ludicrous right? After all the 54 [...]

Intel’s manipulating ways?

Om Malik, Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 12:11 AM PT Comments (1)

It is hard to teach old dog new tricks! And Intel is living proof of that. Wi-Fi and Wi-Max are open standards, which have been embraced by one and all. Which makes them a tough nut to crack from an economic standpoint. I call it being in the clutches of Moore’s Claw. (Read More…)

How to play the VoIP bublet

Om Malik, Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 11:11 AM PT Comments (0)

Forbes.com has a stock pick for all VoIP groupies.
bq. Telecom giant SBC Communications (nyse: SBC - news - people ) recently announced it was going to provide broadband voice beginning in 2004. Smith’s voice Web telephony pick? Santa Clara, Calif.-based 8X8 (nasdaq: EGHT - news - people ) and its Packet8 voice broadband technology. Unlike [...]

More and More, Made in India

Om Malik, Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 9:11 AM PT Comments (2)

My friend Shailaja Neelakantan has a nice little article in Far Eastern Economic Review which highlights the changes in the Indian economy go beyond outsourcing and off-shoring of software and call centers. She highlights on the trend of how companies are now developing software and selling it in the global markets.
bq. iCode is among a [...]

Cult of lone-coders

Om Malik, Friday, November 28, 2003 at 2:11 PM PT Comments (0)

Thanksgiving Day might be over, but there is one group of individuals who we have a lot to thanks for. The lone coders - who put-in hours, days and months and develop a piece of software that we so desperately need but cannot, find anywhere. This is a new category and the reason why I [...]

Portability problems continue

Om Malik, Friday, November 28, 2003 at 1:11 PM PT Comments (0)

The New York Times has a fantastic article on problems facing consumers trying to switch carriers. One reporter’s misadventures in carrier switching despite all the FCC promises.
bq. Since the government decided to force the industry to allow number switching, carriers have spent more than $1 billion to automate the process. Sprint had been adding a [...]

The Cult of Lone Coders

Om Malik, Friday, November 28, 2003 at 2:11 AM PT Comments (7)

Thanksgiving Day might be over, but there is one group of individuals who we have a lot to thanks for. The lone coders - who put-in hours, days and months and develop a piece of software that we so desperately need but cannot, find anywhere. How to synchronize your Pocket PC with an Apple? Or [...]

Linux+Opteron=SuperOctiga

Om Malik, Wednesday, November 26, 2003 at 10:11 AM PT Comments (0)

SuperComputing for the masses trend continues. A more recent and lesser known player in this space is OctigaBay Systems, which is using AMD Optereon to lower the prices of supercomputers.
bq. By standardizing on Linux and AMD Opteron TM 64-bit x86 processors, the OctigaBay 12K delivers the economic and performance benefits of commercial silicon. Furthermore, standards [...]

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