GigaOM

A lot has been written about how Google initial public offering is supposed to revive the moribund fortunes of Silicon Valley. I thought too much was being made of the Google IPO. I checked in with Tom Taulli who is somewhat of a guru on the whole IPO game, and wanted to get his opinion. [...]

Next week I will be at the second Fast Net Futures conference in Santa Clara, California. It is organized by Dave Burstein who publishes e-letter, DSLPrime. I will be speaking at one of the panels on March 31, 2004. Among the things which I am most looking forward to is the demo of 100 megabit [...]

Somehow I missed this one, but looks like small mobile carriers like Virgin, Boost Mobile and MetroPCS are hot enough for an IPO. Last week, MetroPCS Communications of Dallas filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock. MetroPCS is a provider of wireless communications services [...]

Intel is making a lot of noise about WiMAX, and the press is playing ball. Too many stories and too little context. And too much confusion about this technology which is in a sense a worthy descendant of the fixed wireless technologies of late 20th century. Actually it has inspired a lively debate and I [...]

Christian Lindholm, director of multimedia applications over at Nokia has some interesting thoughts on the whole concept of convergence and the role mobile phones will play in the evolution of a highly digital and mobile lifestyle. Lets call it convergence 2.0. He found evidence of it at the CeBit.
bq. Integrating voice, image, video and text [...]

Underground London has a very in depth recap of the recently concluded cellphone love fest, CeBIt 2004. The highlights from the show include a remarkable return of swivel phones.
The site dubs 2004 as the “year of the slide, with many manufacturers taking a lead from the 7650 and the SL55.” (I personally love the new [...]