Archive for September, 2004

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Nortel’s Capitan Clean?

Om Malik, Monday, September 27, 2004 at 7:34 AM PT Comments (0)

UPDATE: What ever you do, don’t call Nortel Networks newest executive Clent Richardson, chief marketing officer. Given his charter to clean up the tarnished and severely damaged reputation of Nortel, he should be called Captain Clean, armed with a brillo pad and some ammonia. He has experience - he had worked at T-Mobile and Apple [...]

Your credit bad… You Phone Company

Om Malik, Monday, September 27, 2004 at 7:06 AM PT Comments (1)

Moment of truth for the Baby Bells?The Wall Street Journal reports that credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s is contemplating cutting the credit rating of the baby bells within a week or so. Such a move would be the first time the ratings firm has acted against these three companies at once, WSJ says. If [...]

Beyond Moore’s Law

Om Malik, Monday, September 27, 2004 at 6:56 AM PT Comments (0)

Steve Jovertson is making another wild prediction, that we will soon transcending Moore’s Law with Molecular Electronics. And you know something, he does have a point on this one, and a lot of research in the labs is leaning in this direction.
The future of Moore’s Law is not CMOS transistors on silicon. Within 25 [...]

Euros dialing up IP-TV

Om Malik, Monday, September 27, 2004 at 5:53 AM PT Comments (0)

In the penultimate issue of Red Herring, I had written a long piece about IP-TV, and pointed out that Europeans and Asians would whole heartedly adopt the IP-TV, but it will be a bit of a slow starter in the United States. A story in Reuters
says that IP-TV is taking hold in Europe.
A new breed [...]

Telephone as the new platform

Om Malik, Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 8:35 AM PT Comments (1)

Web 2.0 is only a week away. I have spent the entire weekend trying to prepare for my panel, Telephone as the new platform. We have some serious power hitters for this panel, and we hope to debate about the future of telephone, and how IP is going help launch new services on this platform. [...]

Gold rush to VoIP may not pan out

Om Malik, Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 8:27 AM PT Comments (0)

The Seattle Times: “When someone heard I was in telecom, they’d ask what they should buy to invest” in Internet phone calling, said Van Cullens, president and chief executive of Westell Technologies, of a trip back to his hometown in Georgia. “It’s a hot topic.” It is more like a gold rush, and many are [...]

Comcast: You ain’t nothing yet

Om Malik, Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 8:25 AM PT Comments (0)

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts is under the microscope over the Wall Street Journal. When asked if telephony could be the next big revenue opportunity for his company, he hedged a bit.
No one knows at this moment. Some would say it’s merely an application running on the high-speed data product and voice is headed for being [...]

09/26/2004 Broadband & VoIP Daily

Om Malik, Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 3:04 AM PT Comments (0)

Heroin withdrawal. Cocaine withdrawal. Caffeine withdrawal. And now there’s Internet withdrawal.
Bluetooth will get you laid
MSN TV lives, will be reborn on October 5, 2004
Nortel’s South Korea connection. More like a Joint Venture with LG
VoIP for barbie
Location based services, over-hyped or under delivered?
Palm VoIP would be too much to expect from Palm, but others are here [...]

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