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Lots of talk about Google introducing an instant messaging client, using the Jabber technology. I think this will be a voice enabled IM product, which will be released in order to match the “talk” features of Yahoo and MSN. Google Rumors reports that the talk.google.com domain has become active, and sends you to google.com/talk which [...]

Yahoo, perhaps is one of the few companies in Silicon Valley that understand the long term importance of teaming up with Baby Bells. It has a close personal relationship with SBC, and now it is trying to make magic with the second largest phone company in the US. That deal has clearly worked out for [...]

Google Desktop Search version 2 is out. I have downloaded and installed the software, and after a day of working with it, I can safely say impressive. It does a pretty good job of indexing everything on the PCs (Mac users still out of luck, but then we have Spotlight!) The software also has a [...]

So finally we have a winner in the Sextel deal - Motorola, which is getting about $780 million for its stake in Nextel, as per SEC filings. That works out to approximately 69.3 million shares in Sprint Nextel, as well as $46.3 million in cash, in exchange for its estimated 54.7 million Nextel shares.

Just found the list of publications and blogs MSN Newsbot crawls. Are you on this list? (Thanks Jeff)

Dell’Oro Group says things are getting better in the optical business. The second quarter 2005 saw sequential growth, and global revenues were up 10% sequentially in the second quarter to $2.1 billion, a 28% increase from a year earlier. In North America, the market grew 19% sequentially to $639 million, a 37% increase from a [...]