Archive for November, 2004

Netscape still doesn’t get it?

Om Malik, Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 10:23 PM PT Comments (0)

Blake Ross, one of the main architects of the Firefox revolution in an open letter to Netscape, says that they still don’t get the broswer business. After releasing one swarthy and obese product after another, the company continues to make browser missteps, he writes. “You have a chance to win back some users, but it’s [...]

Telecom: Party like its 2005

Om Malik, Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 1:29 PM PT Comments (0)

Business 2.0: Telecom executives have adopted a glass-half-full attitude these days. After three brutal years, 2004 proved to be a good-enough year, giving them hope that 2005 could actually be better. How can that be? Continue reading…

Nortel’s Mea Culpa

Om Malik, Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 12:02 PM PT Comments (0)

Mark Evans:
You’ve got to hand it to Nortel CEO Bill Owens who said today he is embarassed by the company’s failure to get out its restated financial results. It’s healthy to see a CEO admit to being anything other than confident and/or arrogant.

Falling over the (Reef)Edge

Om Malik, Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 10:06 AM PT Comments (1)

WiFi LAN business continues to go through a shakeout. It is particularly brutal in the wireless switch business where too many players are vying for a tiny market. Dell Oro Group estimates that the overall enterprise WLAN market in the third quarter of 2004 was about $212 million.
However, 87 percent of that market is for [...]

Clever Cactus anyone

Om Malik, Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 7:04 AM PT Comments (3)

Folks, Clever Cactus, a company I have mentioned in the past is running out of cash. That is a shame. It is a worthy competitor to many of the P2P-sharing applications like Grouper. It is cross platform, and while has somewhat of a clunky interface, is high on functionality. Diego, one of the co-founders is [...]

The Apple Blog

Om Malik, Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 6:49 AM PT Comments (0)

Okay what took them so long. Congratulations folks, and good luck beating rest of the Apple sites. Chris is making a spirited defense of ISync.

Satellite Snag Hits Starband

Om Malik, Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 6:47 AM PT Comments (0)

PCWorld.com: Intelsat Americas-7 satellitle has gone on a blink and has hit hard the subscribers of broadband services supplied by StarBand Communications, according to a statement posted on the company’s Web site. Meanwhile, the company is attempting to provide temporary dial-up service to customers affected, the statement says. Now here is another argument about why [...]

I want my Cell-TV

Om Malik, Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 6:42 AM PT Comments (1)

WirelessIQ: To paraphrase Mae West’s famous quip about a gun, “Is that a TV in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?” Seems like cell phone is becoming an unlikely savior for fast dying broadcast medium.

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