Archive for September, 2004

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The Next Net

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 5:43 PM PT Comments (0)

E M E R G I C Rajesh Jain writes, “The Internet as we know it is about 10 years old. It has had its share of ups and downs during this period. As we look ahead, the Internet that we currently use is going to be fundamentally transformed by an assortment of new technologies [...]

Qualcommers work the hardest

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 4:24 PM PT Comments (0)

You can tell a lot about a company, and its future from one simple metric: sales per employee. It is also a good yardstick to measure how efficiently a company is run. Albert Lin of American Technology Research thinks that operating income per employee is a good barometer to a company’s future. He scrolled through [...]

Internet Voice: Business 2.0 Technology of The Year

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 1:26 PM PT Comments (3)

The new issue of Business 2.0 has started shipping, and I am frankly quite excited about this one. Many reasons - the first being that I wrote the cover story, The New Road To Riches (See Cover), which is about how tiny start-ups are shunning venture capital and going out and building businesses on a [...]

Juniper’s big day?

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 9:58 AM PT Comments (0)

A lot of you might have read my interview with Juniper Networks chief executive Scott Kriens. Well following up, I have some juicy gossip on the company. It is about to snag a big $150 million four year contract from SBC Communications, one of the first wins the company has scored at incumbent Bells. (Don’t [...]

Wireless VoIP Phone Booth at Burning Man

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 3:11 PM PT Comments (0)

Brad Templeton, one of the first few dotcommers has created a wireless VoIP Phone Booth at Burning Man and nearly 1600 calls were made.
The Black Rock Desert is where the rocket cars broke the sound barrier. It’s a perfectly flat dry lakebed, the location miles from the nearest village of Gerlach, and about 90 [...]

TI: WiMAX, or WiFUD

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 11:04 AM PT Comments (9)

Texas Instruments is not convinced that WiMax will replace DSL anytime, according to Infoworld. Joe Cruppi, a senior executive with the company chatted with the magazine and had to say about Intel’s claim of WiMAX as a DSL replacement.
But Crupi is skeptical of these plans, citing as an example the Broadband Wireless Internet Forum (BWIF), [...]

Gates and Ballmer get mo money…why?

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 7:45 AM PT Comments (3)

InfoWorld reports that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer each received total compensation of $901,667 in Microsoft Corp.’s 2004 fiscal year, up 4.4 percent from $863,447 one year ago. Why did they get the raises? They clearly did not merit it? The net income from “continuing operations” that is excluding all the cash they generate from [...]

09/21/2004 Random Bytes & VoIP Daily

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 7:03 AM PT Comments (0)

Light Reading: Cablecos are dead serious about VoIP.
Lingo Link: Primus’ Lingo service will let its users call each other from anywhere on the planet for $8 a month. Calling non-Lingo or PSTN customers cost 3 cents a minute, or whatever long distance charges apply. Idea here is to get the viral marketing going. Interestingly, Primus [...]

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