Qwest’s second attempt at taking over MCI is getting a cold shoulder from CEO Michael Capellas. In a conference call with investors he told investors that he likes the deal with Verizon. “We will do our utmost to drive that through.” Not sure if… Read More »
Archive for February 2005
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 »
Ever since I posted the story about Flickr-Yahoo deal over on Business 2.0 site, there have been many reactions and more tips. First of all, I think Kris’ idea of starting a pool - fantastic. Of course there is the non-denial denial… Read More »
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 »
Samsung Electronics introduced a "push-to-all" (PTA) mobile phone this week and says the phone is the first to allow the owner to talk with several people simultaneously, make a video call… Read More »
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 »
CNET reports that Skype began testing a service yesterday that lets Skype users send SMS messages to cell phones. Connectotel is providing Skype with the short message service. Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The good people at TrueSoft have ponied up another prize to give away to one lucky reader of jkOnTheRun. They previously gave us a personal license to True Launch Bar which we gave away a few weeks back and now they have upped the ante… Read More »
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