Google is making a bid to build a San Francisco-wide free wifi network, according to company officials. The company today filed documents in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s request for information for the city wide network. Google’s WiFi plans were first reported by Business… Read More »
Archive for September, 2005
Microsoft-Google spat is so yesterday. The latest flare up in Silicon Valley is between Yahoo and Nuance Communications. Nuance is accusing Yahoo of stealing trade secrets in the VoIP business. As you might know, Yahoo is pretty serious about this whole VoIP thing, and wants to… Read More »
Verizon VoiceWing fine-print on unlimited plans. Verizon reserves the right to monitor usage for possible abuse of service. For packages with unlimited calling, more than 5,000 minutes a month is considered beyond normal residential use and may be investigated, resulting in potential termination of service. That’s about… Read More »
I am taking rest of the day today and tomorrow off…. writing for the magazine and also plan to have a lot of drinks this evening… starting my 365 day countdown to 40….. Update: Thank you all for kind and warm wishes. Russell sent me a Zero-Cal… Read More »
There were some curious movements in the eBay stock just before the Skype deal was announced. Hitchhiker’s Guide to 650 points out When the rumors came out last thursday on the Skype acquisition, eBay stock dropped 3.8%. With 1.35B shares outstanding and each share losing $1.53,… Read More »
Gizmondo, the gaming device maker is not selling many devices, has a questionable future, but that hasn’t stopped company’s executives to get fat-off-the-company’s coffers. Mob Happy has the latest skinny, but I leave you with this little something about the extracurricular activities of some of the… Read More »
Peter Rojas is a rockstar – or at least that’s the impression I got from SF Engadget meet-up which was well, as well attended as the MobileFocus event the night before. I got a chance to get my dirty paws on a whole punch of devices… Read More »
