Archive for 2005

2005 - Year of the Broadband

Om Malik, Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 6:37 PM PT Comments (9)

By all counts, this has been a phenomenal year, the one where broadband transformed from a fast pipe to a fully viable platform. A platform that if leveraged properly can become a new engine of innovation and growth. We saw the revolutionary impact of the fast pipes on new web services such as MySpace, You [...]

Dutch Don’t P2P As Much

Om Malik, Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 12:06 PM PT Comments (3)

Dirk van der Woude, my unofficial correspondent from Netherlands, just emailed me an interesting link from Planet.NL’s news service. Peter Olsthoorn, editor of the news service went to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (by some counts the world’s largest IX, last month they broke the 100 Gb/s barrier). Olsthoorn wanted to know from the 350 odd [...]

WordPress 2.0 Help Needed

Om Malik, Friday, December 30, 2005 at 11:20 PM PT Comments (7)

Update: I am with Mark Evans on the complexity of the blog systems. He and I are not alone. Paul Kedrosky is having problems as well. In my case, we had some problems which have resulted in comments from last two days to vanish! Others have had issues as well!
My last hope is that the [...]

Five Things To Remember From 2005

Om Malik, Friday, December 30, 2005 at 1:05 PM PT Comments (1)

It has been quite a year, and while I am not ready to take stock of the year as yet, I am thankful for five things that hit the market in 2005. Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro headphones, to make iPod sound even better. Nokia 8801, the shiniest and coolest phone of [...]

Japan, Soon to Be Fiber Broadband Nation

Om Malik, Friday, December 30, 2005 at 7:54 AM PT Comments (2)

Japan is enjoying a broadband boom, like never before. According to information released by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, there were 21.43 million broadband subscribers in Japan at the end of September 2005, up from 17.65 million at the end of September 2004. The increase was across the board, with all major broadband [...]

RSS Icon & The Feed Theory

Om Malik, Friday, December 30, 2005 at 7:27 AM PT Comments (0)

What that orange icon really means and does? The unified feed theory defined by The uber geeks.

Server Transitions and Other Minor Issues

Om Malik, Thursday, December 29, 2005 at 11:56 PM PT Comments (1)

11.56PM: In case you were wondering, no I did not get lazy, or keel over. Instead, I was busy with the server transition. We have move to a better and cleaner “apartment” so to speak, thanks to our server land-lords, RackSpace, and hopefully have put some of the infrastructure issues of the recent weeks [...]

Camino Update Released

Om Malik, Thursday, December 29, 2005 at 11:46 PM PT Comments (0)

Camino Browser version 1.0b2, the latest edition, is up for grabs and has some security fixes. It uses the same code-base as Firefox 1.5, so you are getting Mac Style Mozilla goodness.

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