May, 2004 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for May 2004

BellSouth on VoIP bandwagon

BellSouth, like the other three baby bells has decided to jump onto the VoIP bandwagon, according to Wall Street Journal. bq. Equipment and software for the new service will be delivered by Lucent Technologies Inc., which has signed a three-year agreement with BellSouth. BellSouth has… Read More »

Crisis inside Chipzilla?

I normally don’t write about Intel, or the processor business, but today, I am making an exception. Last three days I have watched and waited for someone to write about Intel and what’s going on inside the Chipzilla, also known as Intel. The company decides to… Read More »

 
 

So what’s wrong with the Cisco earnings for the third quarter? After all, the company reported stellar results and beat expectations by a penny. On the face of it, things are peachy down in San Jose. However, let me point out a couple of things.… Read More »

Best use for a Pocket PC

BostonPocketPC is lucky to have Steven ‘fyiguy’ Hughes posting interesting articles about the Pocket PC world. He’s in the medical field and his research has come up with a neat device for visually impaired individuals who need a PDA to keep organized.… Read More »

The past couple of years the industry has been discussing “convergence” devices as the future for us all. By convergence device they are invariably referring to the marriage of the PDA and mobile phone. These devices are being touted as the way to make us all… Read More »

Sony’s announcement this week outlining their planned May 29 release of the Vaio U70 ultra portable computer has set some tongues wagging. The device is certainly cool with it’s 1GHz Centrino architecture, 20 gb hard drive, and 512 MB of memory. The lure of… Read More »

McLeod to sell assets?

Only yesterday I posted my column for Business 2.0 and questioned the long term viability of guys like Mcleod USA. Now the Daily Deal reports that Cedar Rapids, Iowa company is planning to try a sale of fiber optic cable assets called off during… Read More »

Top Ten Privates

Lightreading, the industry must read for the networking types has come out with its list of top ten private companies in the networking space. Its an interesting list, though some of the names have been included because of sheer starpower, and not for their real… Read More »

* Michael Powell shakes his fist: I think it’s going to turn (the telephone industry) on its head and remake itself into something that consumers are going to find enormously valuable. I think it’s going to be the very, very best and biggest breakthrough in… Read More »

IP-PBX Growing And Growing

Although the market for Private Branch eXchange (PBX) systems is generally considered to be mature and, consequently, slow growing, there is a significant transformation of the underlying technology taking place that is creating new opportunities for vendors to rapidly grow revenue, reports In-Stat/MDR. bq. The overall… Read More »

BT’s VoIP Disaster

Azeem’s experiment with BT Broadband Voice has gone horribly wrong, proving for one and for all that it is tough to teach an old dog new tricks. bq. First off, the Cisco ATA box that comes with BT BBV has a socket for your phone. But… Read More »

Vanilla Coke

I was watching American Idol tonight and they ran a couple of their Vanilla Coke commercials the purpose of which go right over my head. Apparently Coke feels that a mafioso type heavy man coercing overpaid under talented music celebrities into promoting their product will… Read More »

More Must Reads

A fairly predictable story on UTStarcom, albeit well written, in San Jose Mercury News. bq. Street sweepers and grandmothers in China are helping a Bay Area telecom company strike it rich. UTStarcom has prospered by selling a low-cost mobile phone system to meet the needs of… Read More »

I’m posting this from my PPC with my IR keyboard and using Randy’s great program Pocket SharpMT. This program lets you make and submit posts from your Pocket PC when you’re out and about. It is completely compatible with blogs using Movable Type and… Read More »

Just posted my column from Business 2.0. What I am basically saying is that there are still far too many CLECs cluttering the landscape. Expect their number to shrink by two-thirds at the very least. The four-year-long telecom downturn has managed to wring out most of… Read More »

If you look closely, points out regular reader Charlie Sierra, and you will find that there is no difference between a VC and a record executive. Well some minor differences… VC’s were really nothing more than would-be record executives, but with an actual education, and no… Read More »

Verizon is supposed to seriously roll out their broadband wireless this year and next. The technology they use is called EvDO (evolution, data optimized) and using cellular technology will have average data rates of 300 Kbps – 600 Kbps. With burst data rates of… Read More »

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