February, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for February 2005

Bernie Confesses: I am Dumb and Stupid

Bernie Ebbers, the deposed autocrat who ran WorldCon like his private fiefdom says he was so dumb and stupid that he did not know anything about all the shenanigans being pulled by his underlings including Scott Sullivan. Some choice comments from his testimony. “I know… Read More »

Skype Fails the Mom Test

Skype fails the “mom test”, meaning that it is too difficult for my mom to figure out.  Hell, it is too difficult for a relatively technically adept person like me to figure out. I have spent at least an hour on the forums trying to find… Read More »

 
 

Buffalo, Minnesota goes Mesh

Buffalo, MN (located 40 miles north of Minneapolis) is the latest city to join the likes of Las Vegas, NV, Cocoa Beach, FL, Garland, TX and Medford, OR in deploying a mesh-based metro area network. The new network will offer high-speed access to police and other… Read More »

People’s PC, for $300 only

One of India’s oldest PC companies, HCL has just launched a sub-$300 computer that is while skimpy is good starter machines for most Indians who want to get a computer for the home. The PC is called EzeeBee Pride, and will be available on a… Read More »

Broadband for everyone

There is a big debate going on about whether cities should get into the business of providing broadband to its citizens, especially if incumbents don’t act always in their (citizens’) best interests. More than a dozen states have come-up with bills to outlaw municipal and city… Read More »

VoIPers peer with each other

Fourteen VoIP providers from Europe and SIPphone.com of US have set up an international peering network which allows them to interconnect with each other without spending any termination fees. Those in the “network” include little known names such as Callme.se (Sweden), e-fon.ch (Switzerland), Magrathea Telecommunications… Read More »

Euro VoIP Up, US down

Europeans are spending more on enterprise VoIP gear, while US spending is down according to Synergy Research Group’s Q4 2004 reports. The EMEA Enterprise IP Telephony market increased 28.1 % sequentially and 88.8% year over year while its U.S. counterpart dipped 3.5%– the first decrease ever… Read More »

99 Cent iTMS Songs to Rise in Price?

This article at CNN Money makes note of unnamed music labels planning to up the cost of digital music from the current 65 cents/song. As the article mentions, The Steve ain’t happy about this. The Record Labels are said to be comparing the higher… Read More »

Tablet PCs hit the dental office

MedVisor | dental is a patient education system for dentists that is based on the Motion Tablet PC.  The company sells the software and hardware to dental offices to demonstrate dental… Read More »

Are 3D screens on the horizon?

A company in New Jersey, EtherTouch, has recently made technology available to OEMs to produce 3D touch screens for mobile devices.  The EtherTouch screen has all electronics embedded in the screen… Read More »

Seagate, Hitachi release 6 GB drives

Mini hard drive manufacturers Seagate and Hitachi have both announced the production of one inch drives with a 6 GB capacity.  The new drives will no doubt start appearing soon in MP3 players like the iPod mini and Creative Zen Micro. Read More »

Broadbandit, Ray & The Oscars

Qwest is in news for chasing MCI and well its original founder and board member, Phil Anschutz is making headlines as well. The Denver billionaire had financed the movie about singer Ray Charles’ life. The movie, Ray won six nominations and earned Jamie Fox his… Read More »

More Must Reads

Blinkx has inked a deal with movie download service Movielink, and will create a channel is being added to www.blinkx.tv. – when you search Movielink through blinkx for a film title, you will see two windows pop up – one is the trailer for… Read More »

The Broadband Blog: Recently launched VoIP Security Alliance has been set-up with a grand goal of making VoIP more secure. A centralised security forum specifically for Voice over IP to work on a unified approach to vulnerability research is not just good for those in… Read More »

Steve Castellano. thinks that chances of Qwest winning MCI are remote because “Qwest has too much debt. Verizon will raise its bid, if it has to, and move on. MCI will never pair with a weak partner and see its shareholder value desolve.” “Qwest has… Read More »

Bernie Ebbers, the milkman-turned-telecom tycoon is likely to take a stand today in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. He is on trial on charges of conspiracy, securities fraud and making false filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission related to WorldCom, now known as MCI… Read More »

Business Week is reporting that Vonage will one of the handful of companies hitting the IPO markets in coming months. Several VCs say the company is going to hit the public markets sometime this year. Among others on the IPO dance card include Read More »

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