Archive for December, 2003

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Smart Display dead

Om Malik, Friday, December 26, 2003 at 10:12 AM PT Comments (0)

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 [...]

Weblogs get no respect from Ad Networks.

Om Malik, Friday, December 26, 2003 at 7:12 AM PT Comments (2)

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 [...]

LightReading’s Top Ten… Or the Only Ten

Om Malik, Friday, December 26, 2003 at 7:12 AM PT Comments (0)

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 [...]

Future of Wi-Fi according to Ken Denman

Om Malik, Friday, December 26, 2003 at 6:12 AM PT Comments (0)

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.

We chatted about a whole bunch of issues, including Wi-Fi. I tried to pin him down on the Wi-Fi usage, at least on the I-Pass network, [...]

Nice work if you can get it

Om Malik, Friday, December 26, 2003 at 6:12 AM PT Comments (1)

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.
bq. Want to blame something? Blame [...]

Pakistan goes all optical

Om Malik, Thursday, December 25, 2003 at 9:12 AM PT Comments (0)

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 [...]

Indian state telco offers Broadband

Om Malik, Thursday, December 25, 2003 at 9:12 AM PT Comments (0)

Indian state telco BSNL is launching a broadband service in Bangalore. For $20 a month, users will get a 256 kbps second data connection, and a two video channels over a 3 megabits per second network. Games and voice services are part of the package. Customers will have to pay $350 for the set-top [...]

AT&T’s Utopia

Om Malik, Thursday, December 25, 2003 at 9:12 AM PT Comments (0)

AT&T has signed on as the first provider of voice, video and data services over the $530 million UTOPIA network that connects 18 cities in Utah and providers fiber connections to residents and businesses, reports Salt Lake Tribune.
bq. AT&T initially will receive exclusive access to the network. Within a year, though, Utopia hopes to sign [...]

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