Archive for September, 2004

The buzz around VoIP, fiber to the home, wireless, WiMAX and all sorts of cool technologies would make you believe that we are seeing some sort of a telecom rebound. I call this chimera, a mirage and nothing but a pause between the continued downward spiral.… Read More »

You can already hear the popping of champagne corks, as Baby Bells prepare to celebrate the self-destruction of the VoIP independents. Just when the voice-over-IP providers should be fighting tooth and nail with the baby bells, I see signs of familial discord that could jeopardize the… Read More »

The WiMAX Sessions

WiMAX: The Great Wireless Hope or simply hopeless? That was on my mind as I walked out of last week’s panel (organized by the MIT Club of Northern California.) It is a question, searching for answers. I will get to those, in a minute, but first… Read More »

Digital disruption is happening all around us. Music, Movies, Telephone, … it all is being digitized, chopped, assembled and reassembled by us. Between Tivo/PVR functionality (now integrated into one chip), P2P file sharing platforms, Hi-Def. TV, BitTorrent, broadband Internet, falling HDD costs, rising CPU power, we’re seeing… Read More »

When I asked the question, what Microsoft does with its $7 billion R&D budget, I got a lot of flack. However, this morning, I did realize one thing they did not spend any money on – digital image libraries. For that, it turned to Beon… Read More »

Jim Clark whose boats were made infamous in Michael Lewis’ New New Thing has a new dinghy, according to our ole pal, Damon Darlin. It is world’s largest three-masted schooner, and the 300-footer is called The Athena. It has a keel 18 feet deep. Get this:… Read More »

I have started this new trend of inviting experts and gurus to share their thoughts and publish their essays over here on GigaOM. Earlier this month, Dan sent us The VoIP Insurrection. This week pitching please welcome Aswath Rao, who has 20 years of experience in… Read More »

Two Minus 40

So if you get the joke, then you understand that I am taking a day off from blogging today. I am trying hard to break this read-think-post habit and I think today is perfect day to start. I plan to catch up with all emails that… Read More »

Why Broadband over Powerline doesn’t work

Listening to FCC go on and on about broadband over powerlines would make you believe it is only a matter of months when we would get our high speed internet over the same cables that power our stereos and cooking ranges. Bill Pechey over at PC… Read More »

Cisco flexes it VoIP Muscle

Cisco has won a major VoIP deal with Bank of America reports News.com. BoA will replaces nearly 362 PBXes and will deploy 180,000 Cisco Internet Protocol (IP) telephones throughout 5,800 banking centers and enterprise locations in 29 states and the District of Columbia. This is… Read More »

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