Archive for August, 2005

Polish The Glass Mouse with USB Overdrive for OS-X

Om Malik, Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 10:57 AM PT Comments (0)

What’s the point of a five button mouse if you can use only two of them? Well, that’s what I thought when I started using IOGear’s Laser Mouse, which has been built for Windows. Except Jim Parsons sent me a link to nice shareware software called, USBOverdrive, which well lets me do more and more [...]

Boingo goes flying

Om Malik, Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 10:50 AM PT Comments (2)

Boingo adds 30 more airports to its hot spot footprint including some Canadian ones. Meanwhile Toshiba MyConnect has started offering $3.95/hour WiFi access but that’s going to cost a one-time $9.99 plan activation fee. Me, I would settle for EVDO, if I can find it.

The New SBC is AT&T after all

Om Malik, Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 10:44 AM PT Comments (2)

SBC, once again proving that it is one of the canniest companies in the world is likely to switch its name to AT&T once the deal closes. AT&T is a bigger, and perhaps a better loved brand than SBC, at least in People’s Republic of California. Business Week reports that Ed Whitacre will ride into [...]

Google Wallet coming soon?

Om Malik, Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 9:14 AM PT Comments (7)

What’s next from Google? Google Wallet?, the much awaited PayPal killer. There is the same 404 error on the Google Wallet page as we saw in Google Talk! (Of course this could be one big load of c..p)Good work, Google Rumors. eBay flew under the Google radar long enough!

Long Term Impact of Voice over IM

Om Malik, Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 10:39 PM PT Comments (18)

If you took things at face value, then the recent fad of adding voice to the “instant messaging” clients is nothing but Silicon Valley’s version of keeping up with Jones. Yahoo (via DialPad acquisition), Microsoft (via Teleo acquisition), AIM, Google Talk and Apple’s iChat are taking a cue from Skype and giving their users to [...]

Microsoft says it bought Teleo

Om Malik, Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 8:56 PM PT Comments (10)

Today might be a good day to yell “touchdown.” Two months ago, I had reported that Microsoft had been eyeing Teleo, a small San Francisco-based VoIP provider. Now finally, there is a confirmation via C/Net News.com.
“We’ve been making a lot of investments in voice, but as we looked at continuing…we had that build or buy [...]

Skype hangs Not For Sale sign

Om Malik, Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 4:06 PM PT Comments (8)

Skype says, its not for sale! Of course, if you got $3 billion, then lets talk. The company says it might consider an initial public offering.

The Glass Mouse That Roared

Om Malik, Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 3:01 PM PT Comments (1)

The fine folks at IOGear sent me a test unit of their new five button mouse, The USB Laser Mouse, promising me that it would be a fantastic experience, especially if you are using a PC laptop. They said you could program the five buttons to open up any application I wanted. You could do [...]

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