Or how not to make any money! Well we know lack of oxygen at high altitudes can play havoc with your sense of right and wrong, but this is absolute insanity. MuniWireless has a great piece on the *outrageous* prices Swisscom is charging for access … Read More »
Archive for February 2004
Soho House, the nu defination of cool is over. Or at least I think it is. Why? Because when technology companies start having product launch related parties at the Soho House, you know the IT crowd (pun intended) has totally moved on. [Intellibank is having … Read More »
Brighthand reports that Palm is dropping support for Macintosh in its future OS versions including the Cobalt. I am sure that might be true, but this is a question the company has to ask itself: a community of around 20 million (Mac) users you can … Read More »
Last month, I had written that the wireless mergers were bad news for handset makers. Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that for Orange, the wireless arm of French Telecom handsets built to its specifications are generating far more revenue than standard off-the-shelf … Read More »
Cox’s fourth quarter 2003 results were bit of a mixed bag. The plain vanilla cable offerings did nothing for the company, but the standouts were advanced services – which include voice, digital cable and the high-speed Internet. Revenues were $1.52 billion and the company posted a … Read More »
Flarion Technologies, which is powering the 4G Wireless Broadband efforts of Nextel, is now getting some attention from the lawmakers in this country. The company has teamed up with Motorola to develop a highly secure high-speed wireless data network for security personnel in Washington DC. … Read More »
One of the sharpest minds in digital music has spoken: flat-fee pricing will have to come in, and that’s what it will be. Jim Griffin, CEO of Cherry Lane Digital, speaks with a lot of passion, and here’s what he thinks: “Newspapers have always … Read More »
A very valid question asked by Dominic Basulto over at TCS, in wake of 99 cents muisc download standard that has emerged. AOL announced plans last month to offer a five-week trial to 2.6 million broadband customers of 99-cent digital movie downloads. The story compares these … Read More »
An excruciatingly detailed interview with EMI Group’s CFO Roger Faxon…interesting from start to end, so read carefully. I wish I could analyze it, but time beckons… “You have to believe that the business will evolve incrementally into a digital distribution model,” Faxon says. “We think in … Read More »
In some sort of a first, Arista Records has tied up with InfoSpace Mobile to release its artist OutKast’s “Happy Valentine’s Day” song as a true tone (actual cong clip as ringtone) across three major telecom operators in U.S. AT&T Wireless, Cingular, and T-Mobile will … Read More »
A New Zealander programmer has released a collaborative filtering system for onilne radio, with a twist. In the iRATE system, users rate tracks based on their tastes. The iRATE server then selects other tracks to send to the user from a database of over 50,000 … Read More »
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