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Last night, I was at a dinner, where one of the topics of discussion was Web 2.0. More appropriately, what is Web 2.0? It is a damn fine question, and difficult one to answer. D. Keith Robinson writes, “Depending on who’s using the term, you could be talking about the Web as a platform for [...]

Two out of five US residents have Broadband at home, according to the findings of a recent report by Nielsen/NetRatings, a market research firm. The number of Americans with broadband access reached 42 percent of the U.S. population in August, increasing 16% to 120.8 million. Much of the recent growth has come to low cost [...]

Musicgiants, a high-def digital music download service is all set to launch on Wednesday. Billed as a download service for audiophiles, the 15-person company will offer songs that are uncompressed and are encoded using windows media technology at 1100 kbps. In comparison, Apple’s iTunes and others like Real’s Rhapsody offer music at a compression rate [...]

Despite the doubts about their IPO swirling, Vonage is going ahead and preparing itself for an initial public offering, according to Light Reading and after a six-month bake-off,”has chosen Citibank, UBS AG, and Deutsche Bank AG” as lead managers of the offering that could happen within six months. The company declined to comment, Light Reading [...]

Update: Apple is doing the “right thing” and kudos for that!
If Bill Gates is letting out a cackle over the recent iPod Nano debacle, one can’t blame him. He has been on the receiving end of consumer ire for a decade now, many of whom (including myself) have experienced windows inspired rage many a few [...]

A few months ago, I had written a piece about the coming of mobile television, (which is different from what folks like MobiTV already do) and the competition between Nokia and Qualcomm’s MediaFLO. MediaFLO essentially is a parallel wireless network that uses 700-Megahertz spectrum to broadcast tailor made content to mobile devices that have a [...]