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Is the Video Telephone Finally Here?

Om Malik, Thursday, September 23, 2004 at 8:09 PM PT Comments (0)

Business 2.0: Telecom & Wireless Report: Cheaper chips and digital cameras mean cheaper phones without the herky-jerky video of the past.
It was at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York that AT&T (T) introduced its Picture Phone — a magical device that was going to become a $5 billion a year business for Ma Bell. Pick [...]

Verizon EVDO … bah humbug!

Om Malik, Thursday, September 23, 2004 at 4:45 PM PT Comments (13)

Esme does a smack down on Verizon Wireless’s very fast data service announced this morning. She makes some of the points I made earlier, but I still think getting 300-500 kilobits per second on the go is much better than getting puny 40kbps on my GPRS modem.
Let’s talk about the charges for use of the [...]

Cisco bets big on India

Om Malik, Thursday, September 23, 2004 at 7:57 AM PT Comments (0)

So my statement that the “axis of technology has shifted to somewhere in the South China Sea” is finally coming true. Couple of days ago, Cisco Systems announced that it was setting up a $32 million R&D labs in China. Today there is news that Cisco Systems is setting up a venture capital arm in [...]

LG or Lucky Gee!

Om Malik, Thursday, September 23, 2004 at 7:44 AM PT Comments (0)

Technology Futurist has broken down the recent result of LG Electronics, for the quarter ending June 30 are in and LG Electronics posted a strong performance.
…with net income increasing from roughly 494.4 billion won (about $427 million) versus 267.3 billion a year ago. More remarkably, handset unit sales grew 89 percent from a year ago, to [...]

Verizon EV-DO arrives

Om Malik, Thursday, September 23, 2004 at 7:23 AM PT Comments (2)

Its not cheap, and its not the fastest, but soon enough 14 cities and tons of airports in the US will fall to the charms of EV-DO, thanks to Verizon Wireless. New York, LA and San Francisco are in the list of cities which will have this service that downloads between 300-to-500 kilobytes per second, [...]

Why I will buy Samsung P735

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 6:37 PM PT Comments (9)

Off late there has been an assault of new handsets from Motorola, Nokia and LG. Sharp has introduced a handset or two, Sidekick II is out and RIM Charm will be hitting the stores soon as well. However, if you are a GSM user like me, I would urge you to wait for Samsung’s new [...]

Softswitch buyouts on horizon?

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 6:09 PM PT Comments (2)

You know a market is hot when large giant companies are out shopping for technology. VoIP being the newest hot market, it is not surprising that Cisco and Alcatel have gone on a shopping binge. Over last two weeks the only two companies with any kind of financial muscle have been shopping. Now there is [...]

VoIP goes the TV

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 5:52 PM PT Comments (4)

Greg Scoblete, a senior editor at TWICE Magazine has written a great piece over at Tech Central Station. VoIP In Your Hands is a great read especially if you want to think outside the box of VoIP as a cheap replacement for PSTN connection.
TV Caller ID: Since voice data can travel on the same cable [...]

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