November, 2004 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for November 2004

Slow news day It is

Slow news day It is proving to be slow day today and looks like blogging will be in second gear today as well. [Posted with hblogger 2.0 http://www.hexlet.com/] Read More »

South Korean Broadband Shakeout?

Citibank and Dacom are looking to make a joint bid for South Korean broadband provider, Thrunet, which has been under bankruptcy protection since March 2003. Analysts predict that South Korea is about to see a broadband shakeout, mostly because of a slowdown in the growth. … Read More »

 
 

PAlmzheimer

PalmOne Treo 650′s memory problems are going to cost the company plenty, especially among the power users and early adopters who tend to spend $600 on a phone. Andrew goes into great details, but it basically sums up to Ferrari putting a four cylinder inside … Read More »

Introducing, ConvergSense

Folks, starting today, I am going to be writing a new column on convergence for the Business 2.0 online. This is a bi-weekly column that is going to alternate with my Telecom Report column. I hope you can sign-up for this column to have it … Read More »

Firefox gaining market share

One Stat: Microsoft IE market share is down to below 90% while Firefox and its cousins are doing better at around 8%. Read More »

ZTE, Chasing Cisco

Whether the big guns in US like it or not, it is quite clear that Chinese networking and telecom equipment makers are pretty adamant about their plans to dominate the world with low cost gear. The success of UT Starcom shows they can. Huawei will … Read More »

Quattrone…no stocks for you

Frank Quattrone, the banker to stars, is no longer allowed to be a banker. No he cannot even play one on the North Shore. Instead, expect him to get a gig as a general partner at one of the venture funds, especially those who he … Read More »

The SBC VoIP and the FCC

Daniel Taylor: Everyone is reading way too much into it. Or Maybe Not! But a good post which sums up the whole situation. Daniel, just a journalist, in case you were wondering! Read More »

Attention headhunters

If all corporations take Rice University’s advise, then you all will be looking for new gigs. In a recent study they found that that despite a sharp increase in the “number of CEOs at U.S. companies have been recruited from outside those firms, a new … Read More »

Apple Opens Store In London

Looks like Apple is officially taking over the world. They’ve just opened their largest store to date in London. Literally thousands of people showed up for the grand opening with many of them braving the bitter cold weather. The checkout counter in the new London Apple Store. A … Read More »

Hello Canada. This is VoIP

Mark Evans hopes Vonage’s marketing campaign is going to kickstart the VoIP business in Canada, but is not that optimistic. Local calls are really cheap he says. NRI/Michael Sohn Associates expects there will be 1.1 million residential households using an Internet telephony service by 2007. … Read More »

Tiny Voodoo U Do

Rahul Sood of Voodoo PC has been promising me that someday he would build a tiny and light weight laptop. Well he has. Voodoo PC m50 rocks. Tiny: 3.4 pounds, thanks to a tough carbon fiber body and yes that’s with batteries and drives etc. … Read More »

More Must Reads

National media asleep at the wheel as bloggers, Esme Vos and Harold Feld track the real wireless broadband scandal unfolding in the Penn State. Verizon drafter legislation is putting the Philly Wi-Fi project at risk. Read More »

Is cell phone a fashion accessory? We think it is, so does Nokia and Samsung. The Feature disagrees, and writes, “Even worse, the simple act of needing to switch between phones, most likely by transferring the SIM card, may be seen as too … Read More »

Qwest Communications will backbone access to university-led R&D consortium Internet2 and will continue as the backbone transport provider for the Abilene Network—Internet2′s advanced transcontinental backbone—through September 2007. Read More »

Kazaa is getting into VoIP game and is going to integrate Skype technology with its file sharing software. Kazaa v3.0 will also include advanced search capabilities and a free weblog trial from TypePad, the hosted service by Six Apart. Read More »

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