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Loving Light Reading

Om Malik, Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 6:48 AM PT Comments (0)

There is a lot of people who don’t care much for the often snarky, and funny tone of Light Reading, the real insider publication for the networking business. Especially the marketing and PR folks or the chief executives who get skewered. I find a new reason to love it every day. Today there are three [...]

AT&T VoIP goes premium

Om Malik, Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 6:35 AM PT Comments (0)

With its rivals fighting tooth and nail over market share, competing essentially on price, and giving away some of the premium features, AT&T is taking another tact - it is going premium and is going to charge more for bonus features. For instance it is offering a Record & Send service, which means you can [...]

Net2Phone Goes Local

Om Malik, Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 6:28 AM PT Comments (1)

Net2Phone is boosting the availability of local numbers as the company tries to get a further toehold in the VoIP market, which is expected to grow at a rapid clip in 2005. The company says it now offers local phone numbers in more than 80% of the United States to service providers. It also offers [...]

What HP and Carly can do for Tsunami victims

Om Malik, Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 7:58 PM PT Comments (0)

Hewlett Packard has been trying to position itself as the digital photo/imaging company for years, and very successfully so. It has been a good corporate citizen and has helped many worthy causes. Now it has a chance to do something even bigger. How about Carly and her team mobilize a team of volunteers, and give [...]

Tsunami Help Campaign

Om Malik, Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 6:09 PM PT Comments (2)

“Yesterday a Muslim man came to me and asked, ‘Father, can I enter the church? Can I stay here?’ I told him that we are all God’s children. You are welcome to stay here. It is only because of my cassock that you can make out that I am a Christian. I cannot look at [...]

VoIP+WiMAX Equals Mega Hype

Om Malik, Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 2:41 PM PT Comments (0)

InformationWeek reports that Airspan, which makes WiMAX gear has snapped up VoIP equipment maker, ArelNet for $8.7 million in a bid to go after the VoIP market. Now if this was to go public, well you can expect a lot of interest in this company since it has all the right “buzzwords” in its [...]

Fiber survives the Tsunami

Om Malik, Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 2:33 PM PT Comments (2)

Call this a strange twist of fate. In a tragedy which has taken thousands of lives, the life line of new economy - the fiber cables have survived the worst tragedy in the history of South Asia. Light Reading reports that the telecom services, after some minor outages are back to normal. Four large cables [...]

$500 iMAC?

Om Malik, Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 11:39 PM PT Comments (1)

Think Secret, which has a Barry Bonds like record when it comes to reporting news about Apple, (it has gotten them sued you know by Apple!) is reporting that Apple will introduce a barebones iMAC powered by 1.25 GHz G4 processor on January 11, at the MacWorld. At that price point, this could be the [...]

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