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Multiple sources including The Daily Deal and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that Vonage is about to file for an initial public offering and is hoping to raise between $400 and $600 million. The Daily Deal has the scoop.
According to sources, it’s possible that Vonage might pursue a dual-track process, allowing it to explore [...]

Guess what is the fastest growing extreme sport in Silicon Valley – grousing about Google. The New York Times story mentions how they are sucking about all the talent from the market, causing hike in salaries and well soon inflate the Silicon Valley housing prices even higher. I found it amusing that people are comparing [...]

Mini Review: Just had a nice chat with Jon Gales using the iChat client, and it worked perfectly. The quality of sound was great and had no feedback or anything of the sort using Powerbook’s built in Mic and speakers. Anyone have screen shots of the official GTalk application, which I believe is for Windows [...]

Ovum’s Future View Daily is off the mark when it comes to Google buying Skype. Andy gives his reasons, and here is what I think, and what Mark Evans has to say on the matter. Someone close to the company recently told me - Google is in a build not buy mode, and all that [...]

Thanks Andy for the link.

Today is the the day when first wireless phone call was made in India, and since then 60 million or so have joined the mobile masses. By end of the decade, this number will double to 125 million. Life without wires does change cultures. Gaurav Bhatnagar reports from New Delhi.