Archive for June, 2005

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FCC Commish - End to Phone Line Sharing As Well

Om Malik, Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 1:00 AM PT Comments (6)

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin did not waste time and showed that he is watching out for the interests of phone companies.
“We’ll need to move quickly to establish regulatory parity between telephone companies and cable companies that are providing a broadband service,” he told the Wall Street Journal.
If he gets his way, he would have effectively [...]

Veraz snags major deal in India

Om Malik, Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 12:01 AM PT Comments (0)

Update: Confirmed the news - the dealwith Reliance Infocomm is worth $7 million for 60,000 ports.
Veraz Networks, a major VoIP equipment provider is about to set a major deal in India for its media gateway products. The deal is said to be worth around $7 million, and the buyer of Veraz gear likely is Reliance [...]

Slingbox Personal Broadcaster on Sale at CompUSA.com

Om Malik, Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 9:18 PM PT Comments (0)

All right folks, go ahead and pre-order.

Microsoft eyeing Teleo?

Om Malik, Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 8:59 PM PT Comments (21)

Yahoo bought DialPad and perhaps that is an incentive enough for other majors - Google and Microsoft - to make a VoIP play as well. There is word that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Teleo, a smallish VoIP player based in San Francisco. It has one of the better SIP implementations.
Teleo adds VoIP to [...]

Good for Cable, Bad for America

Om Malik, Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 12:37 PM PT Comments (1)

Martin Thunman, CEO of PacketFront: “The U.S. puts incumbent business interests first … Europe puts the end user first.”

iTunes 4.9, Podcasts, more like time shifted radio

Om Malik, Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 10:24 AM PT Comments (17)

Like all mac faithful, I downloaded the iTunes 4.9, and checked out the podcast feature. Despite all the hoopla around Podcasts and how are going to be different from radio, well the iTunes 4.9 clearly shows that it is nothing but radio timeshifted. There is ESPN, ABC News, and some other mainstream radio shows being [...]

Brand-X, Final Thoughts

Om Malik, Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 12:10 AM PT Comments (14)

At many points in our life, we end up in relationships which are dysfunctional, and mutually destructive. We are well aware that we should put an end to it, but we still hope against hope, that things just might work out. But in real life they don’t. Same is the case with the Brand-X case, [...]

The old Oddpost is the new Yahoo Mail

Om Malik, Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 12:06 AM PT Comments (2)

Oddpost, the company Yahoo bought for about $30 million for is DHTML goodness is finally baring its teeth as the new Yahoo Mail. I can finally get mine to work on a Mac and on a Firefox. I wrote about these guys in Business 2.0 as part of my New Road to Riches story. Why, [...]

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