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Archive for 2003

VoIP reality check

Marguerite Reardon of C/Net News.com has a rather interesting article on VoIP in the enterprise, and provides a much needed dose of reality when it comes to VoIP. bq. Analysts say it could be years before most companies are willing to throw out their old PBX … Read More »

Digital Gifts….Hot Hot Hot

The New York Times has this long story on the hot gizmo of the season, the Rear Projection Television. Apparently, these are not the only ones flying off the shelves. Ipod and Treo, two devices that are Must Haves for the digital set are no … Read More »

 
 

Broadband booms … almost

FCC has finally come out with the broadband data: last time they checked, high-speed Internet connections increased 18% during the first half of 2003 for a total of 23.5 million customers. And cable is still kicking DSL’s butt, though, weakly. These numbers show that the gap … Read More »

GSM vs WLL battle ends in India

The two-year long battle between Indian Cell Phone companies that use the GSM standards and those backing the Wireless Local Loop technology has ended, reports Dow Jones News Service. The battle has primarily between Indian cell operators and one company in particular, Reliance Telecom which … Read More »

40 Gigabits in the Sky

For some odd reason, there is something romantic, not to mention challenging about the concept of high speed Internet access delivered from the heavens via a satellite. Many American and European companies have tried – some failed and others have had moderate success. Still that does … Read More »

FreeFi by the Bay

Sitting by the bay, surfing on my PowerBook… woops did I say it out too loud. What I really wanted to say was that here is a link to the free Wi-Fi hot-spots in the Bay Area/San Francisco. The list comes courtesy of Eric … Read More »

Ma Bell Strikes Back

bq. “The next 12 to 18 months promise a further shakeout and rationalization. While there will be fewer players, AT&T will not only survive, but thrive.” – David Dorman, CEO in Network World Read More »

Anatomy of the Ipass-TMobile deal

The good folks at WiFiNetNews are quite impressed by Ken Denman, CEO of iPass. They chatted with him last week and talked to him about how the IPass-T-Mobile deal got done. bq. Denman was around when iPass originally made a deal with MobileStar, then he watched … Read More »

Cellphone consolidation begins?

Last month, I had predicted that number portability will become cellular phone business’ Waterloo. Some will go out of business, and others will merge. In short consolidate. A few months earlier, in an article for Business 2.0 (Gulp) I had pointed out that there … Read More »

What’s so Good?

Taking a page out of SalesForce.com’s Marc Benioff, Danny Shader, CEO, Good Technology has acquired a new habit: providing media with big picture outlook of his business guised as industry forecast: Hey, I am not complaining, but just pointing out the obvious. So here is … Read More »

Trouble at TeleSym?

Could this be the first sign of troubles for the VoIP Cinderella story? TeleSym announced that it had fired its co-founders and is replacing them with a new chief executive. bq. TeleSym, a provider of software for VoIP over Wi-Fi, said founders Raju Gulabani and Karl … Read More »

Covad: The Real Broadband Phone Company

AT&T’s move in VOIP is more good news for the once-beleaguered DSL provider. Download PDF Read More »

More Must Reads

With its VOIP business offering, the Baby Bell is taking on its brothers and breaking up ancient alliances. Download PDF Read More »

Call me a glutton for punishment, but past two weeks have been spent in extremely cold conditions. A week long trip to the East Coast, while fun was a rude reminder of the harsh climes of New York and New Jersey. Last week I visited Truckee, … Read More »

Better late than never – it seems after missing the opportunity on 802.11g chip sales for months, ChipZilla, i.e. Intel is getting ready to ship the 802.11g variety of Centrinos. David Wong, an analyst with AG Edwards believes that Intel will soon release its next generation … Read More »

Exclusive: The rumors of Innovance’s death might actually be true, according to sources close to the company. At least one of the investors has informed me that the ground breaking optical subsystems company has downed the shutters. The news of dark days at Innovance, an Ottawa, … Read More »

Qwest Communications, in a bid to come out of a slump, and fill up its nearly empty fiber optic pipes says it is buying the assets of bankrupt telecom provider Allegiance Telecom for $300 million in cash and $90 million in debt. Most of these … Read More »

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