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Google WiFi, more than Bay Area

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 8:04 AM PT Comments (3)

My dear friend James Enck who lives in London reports that he downloaded the Google WiFi Secure Access client in London, and is able to log on to it from many different locations in the city.
> I’m now at the venue for Carriers’ World in the Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, and am again connected to [...]

Skype’s Bad Connection At VoN

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 9:56 PM PT Comments (7)

Well, Skype CEO and newly minted billionaire, Niklas Zennstrom just learnt the horrible truth about Skype - something we Skype users have known all along. It ain’t perfect. Apparently, he was muffled by a bad connection, when trying to Skype in his keynote speech over a satellite connection - just like he did at Always [...]

Palm being sued over Treo

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 2:49 PM PT Comments (18)

This just in… things are getting decidedly bad in the Palm-land. Disgruntled users are suing the handheld/smart phone maker over all the technology related issues. According to the documents filed with the Superior Court of The State of California in the county of Santa Clara, the complaint centers around three basic problems.
In fact, these phones [...]

Black is the New Black

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 2:20 PM PT Comments (9)

MobileTracker says T-Mobile plans to launch black Sidekick. Black iPod Nano, and before that, Black RAZR - looks like black is back, and is the new black! What next? Pink?

Is (Microsoft) Reorg Enough?

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 1:35 PM PT Comments (0)

Microsoft, for all its faults, does one thing better than most other companies - looks itself in the mirror, doesn’t like what it sees and quickly tries to do a makeover. Today’s makeover is keeping in with that tradition. The tradition, that made Netscape public enemy # 1 and Internet the opportunity # 1.
Strangely enough, [...]

Tony Li, Found At Portola

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 12:13 PM PT Comments (1)

Cisco’s uber geek, Tony Li, has landed at a new start-up called Portola, reuniting with his former comrade in arms, Vito Palermo. Two of them worked together in the router start-up, Procket Networks, which despite all the dollars in the world, did not make a dent in Cisco’s market share. Li also worked at Juniper [...]

Google’s Secure (WiFi) Access Tool

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 12:06 AM PT Comments (12)

Google seems to have developed a secure WiFi VPN software tool - Google Secure Access Client. The information can be found here. Google Rumors has all the details. To sum it up, what they are doing is giving away a VPN tool that takes some of the security risks out of open WiFi. Companies like [...]

Quick Update…

Om Malik, Monday, September 19, 2005 at 11:40 PM PT Comments (5)

My battle with cold/viral ailment continues, though I did make efforts to get out and about. Ended up visiting Yahoo for the Flickr Fiesta, but the trip has left me completely drained. I am skipping DEMOfall and VoN Boston as well. I apologize for the slow pace of posts, but I feel like an old [...]

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