July, 2004 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for July 2004

Suspend your aquarium

MocoLoco has the coolest aquarium I’ve ever seen. Narrow, and with clean smooth lines, the ASP Space Aquarium can be suspended from the ceiling creating the most unique room divider ever designed.“The suspended Space Aquarium concept eliminates the awkward edges and angles associated … Read More »

Cingular Folds Celebrity Poker

Cingular has folded its sponsorship of Celebrity Poker Showdown; presumably the players were getting a bit frisky with their camera phones. Read More »

 
 

Singapore, the new bandwidth nation

Computer World (Singapore) has a fascinating article on how the tiny-island nation is becoming the bandwidth and technology hub of Asia. VSNL, for instance is building a 3175 kilometer 5.12 terabit cable between Madras and Singapore, the second such pipe between the two places. … Read More »

For 2.5 billion, Nextel gets what it wants

MobileTracker reports… The FCC has voted to approve a spectrum swap for Nextel to keep emergency radio spectrum clean from interference. The decision by the Federal Communications Commission would give Nextel Communications highly sought airwaves in a band that won’t disrupt the radio communications of emergency … Read More »

Teligent rises from the ashes.

If you read Broadbandits, then you know the back story on fixed wireless flameout, Teligent. There is news that First Avenue Networks is acquiring the assets of Teligent in a stock transcation worth $99 million. What is more interesting that Rajendra “Raj” Singh who … Read More »

World 2nd hottest telecom market, hotter

India’s new budget might have tipped its hat to the socialists, it still is great news for the telecom industry. So here is quick recap of the telecom/broadband specific highlights in the budget: The foreign direct investment cap in the telecom sector is going … Read More »

07/08/2004 Randomly Speaking …

Randomly speaking there is just too much going on in the world of broadband, and there is not enough time to write about everything. Flarion is in trials with Telstra in Ozzieland. Wireless router start-up Starent, big cheese in Asia is looking to go … Read More »

FCC decides future of rural broadband

FCC chairman Michael Powell has been pretty vocal about getting broadband out to the rural masses, and has been balloting quite heavily for it. Politicians have made some polite noises as well. Today rubber meets the road as FCC deliberates on the future of … Read More »

Will Moto A630 show-up in rap-videos?

Motorola has done a great job of placing its products in the urban music videos. Whether it was its two-way pager, its cellphones or even the lame-ass PDA phones, the hip-hoppers love their products. I think the next big product to make it big will be … Read More »

VSNL, Flag bury the hatchet

A few days after I reported that Tata-VSNL might be making a run for Tyco Global Network, there comes news that Tata’s VSNL and Reliance’s Flag Telecom have buried the hatchet and would work together in the future. I am pretty sure, this would be temporary … Read More »

Koreans make great phones

Regular readers know that I keep harping about “user experience” and all that stuff. Well I am not the only one who thinks so. Some research released by London-based research firm, Strategy Analytics shows that South Korean handset makers have made this their top … Read More »

Slow death of the record store

Yesterday it hit me, how much I depend on the ITunes music store to buy new music. Being a big fan of Thievery Corporation, I could not wait for their new album, The Outernationalist. It was not available on ITunes so I decided to visit … Read More »

More Must Reads

Business 2.0: Since they use VOIP, they’re a lot cheaper than cell phones — but they only work in hotspots. (Also read my review of ZyXEL WiFi phone.) It was just a matter of time before someone found a way to combine the two hottest … Read More »

Now if you lived in Manhattan, you curse the day when 10-digit calling became mandatory. Those of us who had 212 area codes cried the loudest. Anyway Vonage has now introduced seven digit calling which is going to be a hit with NY hipsters at the … Read More »

Finally the Symbian consortium is getting its act together. MobileTracker reports that Nokia is not going to be a majority partner in Symbian. There was been a lot of hue-and-cry about Nokia becoming the dominant force in Symbian but eventually folks like Sony Ericsson have … Read More »

Not anytime soon, but some day in the near future one could expect IPod with a massive 200 GB drive, and one would have to thank PMR for it. Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) will be the next big leap in the hard drive storage technology, and … Read More »

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