Archive for August, 2004

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CellPhone hazard warning labels?

Om Malik, Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 10:21 AM PT Comments (0)

Cellphones can make you impotent. They can cause cancer, and now you might not believe it but they can cause some serious damage to your hearing. Jon reports that some technical snafus can cause hearing damage for users of Siemens handsets. We had heard that K700i is causing some momentary loss of hearing as well [...]

A mega-broadband life

Om Malik, Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 7:20 AM PT Comments (4)

Some swedes are living the mega-broadband future, according to this Reuters’ article. One of them is Rainer Kinnunen, a 31-year-old student who has a 10-megabit per second people into his house. He buys the service from Bredbandsbolaget, which offers a 100 megabits per second monthly package for $80 a month as well.
Since going superhigh-speed, Kinnunen [...]

Too Many Networks, Too Little Voice

Om Malik, Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 7:06 AM PT Comments (0)

By now, I am sure most must have read the Page One story in The Wall Street Journal on VoIP, and its effect on the telecom business. A few months ago when I wrote, Telecom’s Continuing Death Spiral, I knew it would take a few months, but someone is going to put all the pieces [...]

Treo 600 in T-Mobile stores, finally

Om Malik, Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 6:53 AM PT Comments (0)

Update: Treo 650 pictures: Engadget has some skinny and exclusive details on the next Treo, aka Treo 650. >> After months of denial, the T-Mobile customers can now get their hands on once quite cool and trendy Treo 600. “Based on the popularity of the Treo 600 with our business customers, offering the Treo 600 [...]

My 15 minutes of infamy

Om Malik, Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 4:46 AM PT Comments (5)

The hubbub around Technorati story caught me by surprise this week to stay the least. After all like all reporters I pick up the phone, and dail-for-news. Basically following tips with legwork. Sometimes it pans out, and most of the time I strike out. Still, the news spread like wildfire through the blogsphere, and well [...]

Who will be Powell’s replacement?

Om Malik, Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 3:23 AM PT Comments (0)

Dave Burstein of DSL Prime argues that when FCC chairman Michael Powell leaves his current gig, it would make sense for someone with industry experience to head up the agency. Hmm! Interesting idea, and even more interesting names he has proposed, though some of them make me want to laugh. Anyway it is all [...]

Old dog, older tricks

Om Malik, Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 1:20 AM PT Comments (2)

Jeffrey Citron, the maverick founder of Vonage, might be taking a page out of his online trading playbook again and using it to manage and run the fast growing, cash guzzling VoIP service provider. Bill Burnham, who used to track online trading business as an analyst before switching gears and becoming a VC draws the [...]

Ready or Not, WiMAX here we come

Om Malik, Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 11:32 AM PT Comments (4)

That is the rallying cry coming out of Intel’s headquarters. They might be getting their rear-end smacked by guys like Fujitsu, but Intel is putting a portion of its cash reserves on making WiMAX happen. This morning they announced that they were putting a lot of dough into tiny DSL provider Speakeasy.net. Financial details were [...]

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