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* Viewsonic bets on Convergence
* Smart Display dead
* Future of Wi-Fi according to Ken Denman
* Broadband boost for cash strapped states
* Digital Gifts….Hot Hot Hot
* Broadband booms … almost
* GSM vs WLL battle ends in India
* Cellphone consolidation begins?
* 40 Gigabits in the Sky
* Trouble at TeleSym?
* Lights out at Innovance Continue »

Commoditization, as outlined in my story, The Rise of the Instant Company, is helping companies diversify, and get into previously unrelated businesses quite easily. One such company is Viewsonic, which for nearly a decade sold computer monitors but has recently diversified into Plasma Televisions, LCD TVs, notebooks, PDAs and a whole slew of products that fit the concept of “digital lifestyles.” Continue »

Steve Jobs was right - there is no point developing an equivalent of Smart Display. Apparently Microsoft, has learned this the hard way, and has suspended work on the “dumbest idea” of 2003. A report in Korea IT Times says that Barons of Redmond in a communique last week announced decision to abandon the development of Smart Display OS. A lot of electronics makers like Viewsonic, Samsung, LG, Trigem and a bevy of unknowns had signed on for the Smart Display program but are feeling screwed by Microsoft. Continue »

About two weeks ago, encouraged by the healthy traffic trends, I opted to sign-up for a couple of advertising networks to see if I could get them to place advertisements on GigaOM.com. The two networks, which I signed up for included Tribal Fusion, and ValueClick. These came highly recommended by fellow webloggers, including the editors of eHomeUpgrade.com. Continue »

Or as I like to call it, everything related to telecoms and networks as one giant list. Here are some of the top ten technology picks from the industry insider, which fails to come up with anything new to say in this horrible waste of server space: Telco Video, Grid Networks, Ethernet, Security, DSL, Ethernet Services, Wireless LAN, FTTx, Wireline Convergence, and VoIP. And as I said, nothing new here, except for one giant reference document with links to old LR stories Continue »

A few weeks ago I had a chance to chat with Ken Denman, chief executive officer of I-Pass, a company that has provided on-the-road access to many American mobile workers. Continue »

Technology and productivity are the biggest reasons why many jobs have simply vanished, including that of the elevator operator. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor makes an argument of why blaming India and China is an easy copout and why we are losing jobs. Continue »

Pakistan will become the first country to link all its universities through a fibre-optic system within the next two months, while four educational TV channels would be launched under the Virtual University project; two of these by the end of next month, according to this report. Of course that is an easy thing to do if you have only 60 universities. Continue »