PC Pro reports that French company Thomson, is trying to make MP3 into a legitimate format and ward of competition from more secure formats. While MP3 remains the favourite compression format of the P2P file sharer, its lack of DRM controls means that AAC (as used … Read More »
Archive for March 2004
Acumen Journal of Life Sciences, a promising and thoughtful bio-sciences journal edited by former Red Herring editor and a good friend of ours, Jason Pontin has decided to cease publication. This is yet another San Francisco media outlet that has fallen on hard times. We … Read More »
Someone please send this guy a copy of Broadbandits, for he does not seem to understand that Jack Grubman is tainted goods. This crazy Indian company has hired Jack to do something. I am not sure what he will do, but given his track … Read More »
As part of its daily PR assault on the media Vonage sends out its subscriber number update. Using a 30-second-back of the envelope calculation technique I found that despite having only 115,000 subscribers the New Jersey-based company has in recent months hit a fast growth … Read More »
VoIP is hot, Verso is not, according to Independent Research Group senior analyst Erik Zamkoff, who this morning dropped coverage of the Atlanta-based company. According to a February 23, 2004, report by Infonetics Research, the market for next-generation voice products grew 31.0% in 4Q03, … Read More »
A little while ago I wrote about a tiny fixed wireless company called TowerStream and how they were succeeding in a business where several others had failed. The company sent me an update this morning: it has turned on its new Point-of-Presence (POP) on … Read More »
A whole bunch of articles about WiMAX have started to appear in the media. The Seattle Times and The Newark Star-Ledger are two of the latest news outlets to jump on the WiMAX bandwagon. The Seattle Times is a good industry background piece, while
Hughes Network Systems, one of the major satellite broadband copanies is looking to add a little sizzle to the business which has been rightfully regarded as a laggard behind the cable and DSL broadband technologies. In case those of you don’t know, HNS is the … Read More »
Both BT and Telewest are launching cut-price net services designed to tempt more people to broadband, according to BBC. While these services costs about $35 a month, there is an overall bandwidth consumption cap on these services. I think this is a way for the … Read More »
