Buried in its S-1 filing, Atheros admits that it has so much competition, that you should pause… we compete with large semiconductor manufacturers and designers and start-up semiconductor design companies as well as large, established suppliers. Our primary competitors include Agere Systems, Inc., Broadcom Corporation, ….. … Read More »
Archive for 2003
Earlier this month, in one of my posts I had mentioned that the Baby Bells soon will embrace VoIP and it will be end game for most of the VoIP upstarts. Well that moment is here and now. Even as the Federal Communications Commission deliberates … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
Mirra, company formerly known as Ispiri is yet another example of an Instant Company. Powered by a generic x86 processor, 80 gigabyte (or 120 GB) hard drive, the Mirra is a personal server that uses the free Linux operating system. It is one of … Read More »
Day Two of Wireless Freedom: After a slow start, the number portability picked up some momentum on Tuesday despite the glitches which are preventing people from switching. Nevertheless the carriers are about to get their heads served on a platter. Stores are seeing an increased foot … Read More »
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