Archive for February 2005
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.
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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, 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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.
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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
By Om Malik
Feb. 28, 2005, 7:45am PT
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 »
By Om Malik
Feb. 28, 2005, 3:55am PT
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 »
By Om Malik
Feb. 28, 2005, 2:54am PT
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.”
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By Om Malik
Feb. 28, 2005, 12:12am PT
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 »
By Om Malik
Feb. 28, 2005, 12:05am PT
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 »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 27, 2005, 11:10pm PT
The first Tablet PC Show is out of post production and ready for download on The Podcast Network. I’m really excited to be doing this podcast and promise you some exciting guests will be appearing on The Tablet PC Show and we’ll share a lot … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 27, 2005, 10:22pm PT
By Om Malik
Feb. 27, 2005, 2:17pm PT
US News & World Report says that Vonage is adding 10,000 new customers every week, and has a total of 450,000 customers. I guess, the big question is how many of them actually bail from the service, and how they are sliced and diced – … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 27, 2005, 12:09pm PT
Steve Richards has Adult Onset Stills Disease (AOSD), a chronic and debilitating disease similar to arthritis that intrudes on every aspect of the afflicted’s life. An IT professional, Steve is in the fortunate position that allows him to work from home and still function in … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 27, 2005, 10:56am PT
Reuters has a well reported, if slightly off target story on WiMAX. Even though tons of phone companies including Sprint and Qwest are trialing the emerging fixed wireless technologies, it is clear that the high cost of deployment and entrenched duopoly of cable and DSL … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 27, 2005, 9:36am PT
Paris Hilton, the hacked socialite is getting some love – this time from Wall Street Journal and The New York Times – who have published remarkably similar stories in their Friday and Sunday editions. Gina Hoffman, Hilton’s spokeswoman told The Times:
“She feels terrible … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 26, 2005, 4:39pm PT
Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer was interviewed recently by MacWorld and outlined his views on the personal media center market and video players in particular. Oppenheimer admitted that while some consumers are interested in seeing Apple produce a personal video player there will be … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 26, 2005, 4:11pm PT
By Om Malik
Feb. 26, 2005, 2:20pm PT
By James Kendrick
Feb. 26, 2005, 10:45am PT
By Om Malik
Feb. 26, 2005, 10:06am PT
* VoIP Will Be Free, or so thinks VoIP Inc. CEO Steven Ivester, who claims that his company will make money because of telephony features and its unique position as a hardware maker and a wholesale provider. VoIP Inc, which till recently was traded on … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 26, 2005, 10:06am PT
By Om Malik
Feb. 26, 2005, 10:05am PT
By Martin MC Brown
Feb. 26, 2005, 1:31am PT
I talk to Adam about his latest book, the role of AppleScript in Mac OS X and how he came up with the example scripts used in the book.
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By James Kendrick
Feb. 25, 2005, 10:18pm PT
By Om Malik
Feb. 25, 2005, 4:54pm PT
Uber-blogger in retirement, Andrew Sullivan in his latest column for The Times of London pens an ode to the church of Apple, and how iPod people have taken over the normally bustling, crazy and funky Manhattan.
There were little white wires hanging down from their … Read More »
By Nick Santilli
Feb. 25, 2005, 4:23pm PT
Recently I posted about iCal and Address Book, and my suspicion that they were a couple of unsung heroes amongst the OS X-included apps. As a follow-up, I’ll start with iCal and my findings after using it daily for a few weeks.
My general … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 25, 2005, 12:46pm PT
By Om Malik
Feb. 25, 2005, 12:34pm PT
Unwired of Sydney is finding lot of success selling its non-line-of-sight fixed wireless service in that city, according to a company press release. “We grabbed 17 percent market share of new broadband users in Sydney,” said David Spence, president and CEO, Unwired. That’s almost 14,000 … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 25, 2005, 10:48am PT
By James Kendrick
Feb. 25, 2005, 9:17am PT
Agenda Fusion has long been one of the major PIM replacements for the Windows Mobile Pocket PC platform and the new version 7 cements that position. The major new feature appearing in Agenda Fusion for the first time is the inclusion of project management tools. … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 25, 2005, 9:03am PT
By James Kendrick
Feb. 25, 2005, 8:55am PT
Heber Acquafreda is an enterprising software developer in Sao Paulo, Brazil who has written a sophisticated decision analysis and maker program. Pocket Decider is a decision tool based on the Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) model that is very useful when a rational decision must … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 25, 2005, 8:36am PT
By James Kendrick
Feb. 25, 2005, 8:31am PT
Email Sound FX lets you assign unique sounds to any person, group or domain in your Outlook Address Book so you get a unique audible signal played when an email is received based on who sent it. Sounds like an easy way to tell if … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 24, 2005, 6:07pm PT
Qwest is upping the ante and is willing to offer $8 billion for MCI, in hope that this would finally scuttle MCI’s deal with Verizon. While the deal is marginally higher than the $7.8 billion Qwest offered earlier, there are some key differences. Associated Press … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 24, 2005, 5:51pm PT
One of those days – lots of news around WiMAX chip makers. First French WiMAX chip start-up Sequans Communications raised $9 million in series B funding, bringing the total to $12 million. It will need the money since there is a lot of competition – … Read More »
By Josh Pigford
Feb. 24, 2005, 5:07pm PT
Apple’s earbuds hurt. Plain and simple. They just hurt. I have yet to talk to someone who thinks the stock iPod earbuds are comfortable or even stay in their ears good. Upon realizing within the first 5 minutes of wearing the Apple earbuds that they were … Read More »
