Archive for October 2004
Developing Story: Search engines of as much interest for me as Kansas City Royals are to New York Yankees: a good way to build up sizeable lead on those dreaded Red Sox. Similarly I just view Yahoo or Google as a tool to solicit information I … Read More »
Cringely is profiling the open source lifestyle of Canadian Andrew Greig, who uses Linux everywhere in his house, and has figured out a way to live with all sorts of other open source products such as MythTV PVR and other cool hacks. I almost envy … Read More »
I was going to write about this, but then Mark Evans has done a great job of explaining the retiring of Nortel’s CTO. Nortel’s drive to re-invent itself has taken another turn with news that CTO Greg Mumford is leaving. He’ll be replaced by long-term Nortel … Read More »
James Enck has a list of countries with the most Skype users. US, of course tops the list, but there are some surprises such as Poland, Brazil, China and Mexico. And there seems to be a direct correlation between high broadband penetration, high call prices and … Read More »
Last week, I wrote about caller ID on TV as a possible application for VoIP. America’s Network reports that a company called Integra 5 is supplying software that enables cable operators to offer their new telephony subscribers caller-ID services on the TV or … Read More »
Whose hype is the hypest? I would let you ponder that question as you soak your body in alcohol this weekend, and enjoy a might fabulous Angels versus Athletics free-for-all. Our pal, Karl over at Broadband Reports has a nice little number, WiMAX does dishes … Read More »
Fixed wireless company, airBand has started selling Voice-over-IP (VoIP) broadband services in the Houston market. AirBand is a fixed wireless company, which I thought was pretty much out of gas. Apparently not. The company is going to sell its services to small and medium sized … Read More »
Memo to all cameraphone fiends: taking pictures can bankrupt you! Oops, sorry, I already sent that one out. Forbes.com has a story which takes a look at the hidden and often surprisingly humungous cost of using camera phones. After Daniel Goldstein got a camera phone, … Read More »
Texas Instruments, has done well to profit handsomely from the rise of VoIP, WiFi, Broadband and Video-over-IP technologies. So well, that it has started to attract imitators in the space. These are the findings of a recent report from Mountain View-based The Linley Group. … Read More »
Amidst all the hoopla around Vonage and AT&T skirmish, I almost forgot about this bit of news. Voiceglo, as the kids say, has hooked up with Friendster. Interesting deal: VoiceGlo will give Friendster members a free PC- and Web-based phone service to call their Friendster contacts … Read More »
Originally appeared in Business 2.0 magazine’s October 2004 issue: HOW TO GET AHEAD IN THE POSTBUBBLE WORLD: BUILD A COMPANY CHEAP. FLIP IT FAST. REPEAT. The turning point on Iain Lamb’s unlikely road to riches may have come at that depressing moment when he … Read More »
