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Over past few weeks I have been in talks with many mesh networking and muniWiFi companies, such as SkyPilot and Tropos Networks. My question to them: what is the growth potential for this market? Many executives said that they believed it was a market with high growth potential, and more and more municipalities were interested [...]

Ever since Opera went free, it has been downloaded 1.6 million times, which tells me the strategy is working. I wonder if this will result in a big market share gain, and more referral dollars from Google. Still, I feel happy that there is more enthusiasm in the browser market again. Opera claims that this [...]

Broadband is changing family lives for the better. A recent research report by UK-based Demos (conducted for AOL UK) says that the fastest growing demographic on the Internet are women. Between 2000 and 2005, the proportion of women online rose from 39% to 63% - a significantly quicker growth rate than for their male counterparts.
Jonathan [...]

Last few days, there has been frenzy of activity around laptop makers - Dell, HP, Sony and Panasonic - making noise about the fact that they are going to include 3G (EVDO/HSDPA) modems in future machines. It is a welcome development, but makes me wonder why this frenzy? I suspect this will help laptop guys [...]

If you are looking for a EVDO card for Powerbook, I will recommend, Sierra Wireless Aircard 580, which after some hacking gives you better performance than any other PC card. However, it doesn’t work as well with Windows Laptops. It was giving me about 350 kbps on Mac and 115 kbps on a PC laptop. [...]

No its not me who is saying this, but instead it is officials from Level 3, a company that has bet big on VoIP and is hoping for wholesale VoIP to rescue it from the low-margin life of a bandwidth wholesaler. Charles Meyers, group vice president of marketing for Level 3 said that the [...]