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Business 2.0: The Radicati Group, a Palo Alto-based market research firm, predicts that nearly 123 million consumers will check e-mail on their handsets by 2009, up from just 6.5 million this year. At an eye-popping growth rate of more than 100 percent a year, Radicati expects mobile e-mail to become a $2 billion market in [...]

So he passed on Skype. He found it too expensive at three billion dollars. But Rupert Murdoch still wants VoIP, and that too within weeks. Could it be Vonage? At a Goldman Sachs Investor Conference, the wily old fox of media said that he expects his online sales to be between $500 to a billion [...]

Mountain Dew might just be the drink of choice for most code jockeys, including the Mac types, but the drink has little or no love for us Mac types. Like many others, I love the Dew, and when checking out their website I wanted to check out their MDTV-promotional site, I found that you needed [...]

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A couple of months ago, I had a chance to interview Jon von Tetzchner, chief executive officer and co-founder of Oslo-based Opera Software, for Business 2.0 Titans of Tech series. What attracted me the most about his company was that it had customers paying for something - aka browser - which others like Microsoft and [...]

Update: Glenn has some more details.
Following my previous post, a lot of you (thanks!) sent me information about where all you were using the client. Given the different locations, I guess this is “general availablity” for now. A dozen of you sent me some special thoughts. So putting it all together, here are some more [...]