October, 2004 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for October 2004

Change is good, for GigaOM

Folks, over the weekend, I made some minor design tweaks to the website. Why? let me explain. The work pressure at Business 2.0, and constant blogging were making things a tad hairy. I was enjoying the process less and less, and feeling that perhaps I… Read More »

For IXCs, a VoIP lifeline

CED Magazine: The cable industry and a troupe of partners have been invited to the VoIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol) dance. Level 3, MCI, Sprint, Vonage and other voice service providers (VSPs) are teaming with cable operators to build and deploy VoIP services. A few short years… Read More »

 
 

Level 3 swapping debt

Level 3 Commences is going to retire $450 million in debt and will replace it with new debt finaiciang. The notes to be repurchased mature in 2008 and have interest terms ranging from 9 1/8 to as high as 11 percent. Level 3 is giving… Read More »

YOU PEOPLE ROCK!!!!! A few weeks ago I shamelessly asked you to nominate jkOnTheRun for the best independent tech blog for the First Annual TechWeb Network Best Independent Tech Blog Readers Choice Awards being run by TechWeb. TechWeb ran the nominations for a… Read More »

Public Radio Exchange- get paid for Podcasts

A lot of people are now creating Podcasts and it seems new ones appear almost daily. The Public Radio Exchange has created a forum that lets podcasters get paid for providing Podcast content. The aspiring Podcaster uploads his content and sets the level of… Read More »

Seagate 5 GB USB portable drive

Seagate has jumped into the Microdrive market, well sort of. Their new 5 GB “Portable Hard Drive” is actually a USB drive that can be used with any computer with a… Read More »

New Notebook Web Site

The good folks at I4U, a great gadget web site, have just put up a new website dedicated to covering notebook computers of all types. The site looks nice and clean and… Read More »

Illegal Network, Legal Ads

Somebody is making a total ass out of the UK music industry. Wippit CEO Paul Meyers has got his panties in a twist because some of the legal and big firms like Nat West, First Direct, Halifax, Microsoft, Renault, Vodafone, O2, KLM and NTL are… Read More »

HSPDA everyone?

HSPDA aka High-Speed Downlink Packet Access technology is the new point of bragging for most of the mobile equipment carriers. Following Siemens, now Ericsson, Alcatel and Fujistu have all announced their HSPDA. This technology is said to… Read More »

James Enck of Daiwa Securities is proposing a new kind of market and fundamental research model, which could pose a challenge to Wall Street firms. James selects three of us Andy, Om, and Martin he sees that we “collectively deliver what brokers’ research… Read More »

Vonage will need money again!

Vonage’s hiring binge got me thinking, and just when I was waiting for my takeout Chinese to be delivered, I did a very rough back of the envelope calculation, and realized that the company is going to need more money, maybe by end of this… Read More »

Vonage, now hiring..

Jeffrey Citron, when I had a chance to catch up with him at the Web 2.0 has said that the growth at Vonage was so fast, that he was having a hard time hiring enough people. He pointed out that AT&T was firing people, and… Read More »

More Must Reads

Blogging has opened up the internet and the sharing of ideas and information in so many wonderful ways. There is nothing quite like hearing about a subject that you are passionate about from the point of view of the blogger. Great ideas are bandied… Read More »

Any guesses about where the next big broadband spurt is going to come from, well here is a clue: BRIC: Brazil, Russia, India and China. Those are the countries which will be the new forces in the broadband world, and will inspire an increasingly multilingual broadband… Read More »

This one admittedly has nothing to do with broadband. Instead it is all about my weblog, and my frustrations with the current generation of blogging tools. This saturday morning rant is actually inspired by Jeffrey Veen, who thinks that Open source content management software sucks. It… Read More »

With all the problems the Bushies are having these days, it is no time to be losing votes and supporters. Without apparently using her brain, a dufus-volunteer, in Philly cost George Bush two votes, and a future Republican! PhillyBurbs.com : “I was undecided, but we have… Read More »

Telecom carriers are finally banding together and giving a concerted push to ENUM, a new kind of numbering system that allows folks to associate domain names and telephone numbers. Those who are trying to push ENUM are sworn enemies like AT&T, GoDaddy.com, MCI, SBC Laboratories,… Read More »

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