Business 2.0: Jeffrey Citron, Smart Entrepreneur of the year. He raised gobs of money and now is using it to battle the giants and minnows alike. With more than 400 smaller VOIP outfits chasing Vonage, and with the telecoms circling, Vonage’s venture windfall is … Read More »
Archive for February 2005
I am not sure what to make of this. Covad says that it ended the fourth quarter 2004 with 533,200 DSL lines – up a meager 8,300 lines or three percent from 517,000 at the end of 2003. At the end of the fourth quarter with … Read More »
Hardees and McDonalds are experimenting with central "call centers" that take fast food drive-thru orders remotely that are then passed on to the local restaurant. Hardees’ call center is in Anaheim, California and serves restaurants over 1500 miles away. McDonalds is outsourcing the order takers to … Read More »
Skype has finally released the full versions of Skype for Mac OS X and Skype for Linux software which means now the software won’t crash in the middle of a conversation. Download away folks! Read More »
Jesse Drucker in this morning’s Wall Street Journal writes, that with SBC-AT&T deal done, who will be next? MCI is one, name that is on everyone’s lips, but Jesse’s sources tell him that Verizon making a big for Sprint is not out of the question. … Read More »
MIT Technology Review writes a big love letter to Intel and its Centrino product, without any background reporting of course. They talk about Intel’s engineers design cool-running processors because they say the demand coming. Or was it after Transmeta had showed and proved that there … Read More »
A portable video cam makes perfect sense and when you throw in a wireless headset with microphone you just might have the perfect set up. The Logitech ViewPort AV 100 … Read More »
Sam Elowitch writes a passionate editorial in Sun Journal, lobbying hard for broadband in Maine’s rural areas. Maine Governor in his state of the state address outlined his goal to make high-speed Internet access available in 90% of the state of Maine by 2010. The … Read More »
The number of netizens is growing sharply, according to a survey by Ipsos-Insight, a research firm. Internet usage in 2004 was primarily driven by Japan and the U.S. among the 12 markets measured. The U.S., nevertheless, still accounts for the largest Internet market with 162 … Read More »
