Archive for March, 2005

John Battelle had said earlier that all that good publicity around Yahoo is going to get under Google’s skin. Well looks like that skin is stretched pretty thin. Stung by the gigabyte-email-offering from Yahoo to match GMail, Google has announced that it is boosting email capacity… Read More »

Most MCI shareholders are for the first time thrilled with Qwest’s latest offer. Q is now offering $27.50 a share, or about $8.9 billion for MCI, which in my opinion is $8.9 billion minus cash too much. Nevertheless that’s neither here or there, but still…. Carlos… Read More »

They say when its too good to be true, it probably is! For a few years the break neck growth and gigantic momentum of UT Starcom has confounded many in the telecom space. It kept on winning business – everywhere from Vietnam to China to Africa… Read More »

Sometimes its good to be lucky than smart. That adage holds true of Sony’s new PlayStation Portable (PSP) which if early reports are any indication is fast becoming developer platform of choice. Today a die-hard Mac shop, PocketMac, announced PocketMac for PSP. This is the third… Read More »

Qwest is not backing down, and has decided to up the ante in its desperate bid to takeover MCI. New price – $8.9 billion or roughly $0.90 a share more than its previous offer of $25.60 a share. The new offer is $13.50 a share in… Read More »

Just when you thought biometrics was a way to protect data and cars, some folks have come up with an amazingly analog way of over-coming the problem. Chop someone’s finger, open the door to a car, a house or unlock their laptop. This happened to one… Read More »

Everybody seems to be getting on a froth about how SBC is not working with Vonage on 911 service. Red Herring, ZDNet and everyone else has picked up on this story. I feel this is a gross over reaction, and in many cases no effort was… Read More »

Guardian, Yahoo, Google… finally

As predicted previously, big media, aka The Guardian has discovered the Yahoo mojo. John Battelle points to an article by Ben Hammersly in the Guardian says Google has been overtaken by Yahoo. Here is what I wrote previously Battelle notes, “this kind of coverage has got… Read More »

Scientific Atlanta wins $195 million SBC IPTV deal

SBC has awarded Scientific-Atlanta a $195 million, multi-year contract to provide IP-based video equipment for Project Lightspeed that will enable SBC to acquire, process, encode, and distribute digital media content to subscribers. This will get the Project LightSpeed rolling… fast! Scientific-Atlanta will supply IP video equipment for an IP video operations center… Read More »

More Spectrum Means More Broadband

Having made sure that there is little room for competition in legacy and wired broadband businesses, the FCC it seems is using wireless as the iron rod to keep cable and phone companies in check. In order to promote broadband wireless, FCC is opening up more… Read More »

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