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Top Ten and Happy 2005

Om Malik, Friday, December 31, 2004 at 6:30 PM PT Comments (2)

Dear Readers,
Happy 2005. I hope the new year brings you all a lot of joy and happiness. I enjoyed writing for you in 2004, and perhaps I will try and do better in the new year. I appreciate your support and wanted to take a minute to thank you all for making this a [...]

The Sky Is Crying

Om Malik, Friday, December 31, 2004 at 1:24 PM PT Comments (0)

The normally blue California skies are under a gray pall of gloom, as cold winter rain beats steadily against my window. A rude reminder, perhaps that even heavens are crying at the tragedy that has left us, a wounded planet. A planet submerged in the tears of those mourning hundreds of thousands dead, millions lives [...]

How Not to Sell VoIP at Retail

Om Malik, Friday, December 31, 2004 at 12:21 PM PT Comments (0)

Keith points out that the big stores which feature so prominently in the ads for all the so called VoIP services, like AT&T, Vonage and Packet 8 have nary a clue about selling the service.
when you see Voip Boxes on the shelves but do You SEE one single fricking PHONE hooked up and able [...]

Plaxo maybe getting a CEO

Om Malik, Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 5:25 PM PT Comments (0)

A little bird from down in Silicon Valley tells me that Plaxo might be getting a new top dog. The man tapped for the top job is said to be Benjamin Golub, senior vice president at Verisign, who is in charge of marketing and stuff. I could not reach anyone at Plaxo, what with holidays [...]

My First Week with Nokia 6630

Om Malik, Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 7:46 AM PT Comments (8)

It is hard for me to imagine that I am carrying around in my pocket a computer that is as powerful as my first generation Pentium powered AST desktop, I wrestled with back in 1995, typing out scintiallting stories about memory chip prices for Quick Nikkei News. It seemed breezy enough, running the now forgotten [...]

Too Many Radios in The Cell Phone

Om Malik, Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 7:42 AM PT Comments (1)

The sharp increase in the number of radio standards that modern mobile phones have to support is proving to be a design nightmare for chip designers, and things are going to get increasingly complicated in the future, according to EE Times. Today’s phones need to have a wide area wireless radio, an FM radio, a [...]

Mobile Phones Are Hard To Use?

Om Malik, Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 7:30 AM PT Comments (0)

The Broadband Daily: Most people are not very good in communicating experiences using written language. People are much better in capturing experiences using audio, video, and other sensory mechanisms. Phones allow audio and (now video) to capture experiences of a communicator and may help in sharing these captured experiences by other people instantly or store [...]

High (VoIP) Noon in Colorado

Om Malik, Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 6:54 AM PT Comments (1)

Denver-based Qwest and Comcast are getting ready to battle over VoIP customers, according to The Denver Post. Qwest is going to roll out is VoIP service in its region of 14 states early next year, just in time to catch the first salvo from Comcast, which is going to be ready to roll out its [...]

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