Archive for October 3rd, 2005

Newsgator buys NetNewsWire

Om Malik, Monday, October 3, 2005 at 10:56 PM PT Comments (27)

Update: here is the confirmation. Existing NetNewsWire full-version customers will receive a free 2-year paid subscription to NewsGator Online. Yup, good enough reason to switch to NewsGator from Bloglines. “Synchronization is set to be the killer feature of the next generation of feed reading software,” said John Gruber, author of the popular Mac weblog Daring [...]

Earthlink wins Philadelphia bid

Om Malik, Monday, October 3, 2005 at 10:46 PM PT Comments (2)

MuniWireless has the lowdown on Earthlink winning the Philadelphia wifi bid. This is good news for the company that has been sorely in need of some.

Sprint, the mobile broadband king maker

Om Malik, Monday, October 3, 2005 at 6:32 PM PT Comments (9)

Had it not been for Sprint’s decision to sign-up with Qualcomm when it was getting started on Sprint PCS, Qualcomm would not be the behemoth that it is today. Think of it as a decision that rivals IBM’s decision to go with Intel processors instead of Motorola silicon and using Microsoft’s DOS on its PCs. [...]

Yahoo’s Does Tech News

Om Malik, Monday, October 3, 2005 at 5:22 PM PT Comments (10)

Update: Yahoo is getting pretty serious about this whole content thing. First they hire Kevin Sites, then they go ahead and hire a bunch of financial columnists. And now they are looking to add some more depth to their editorial team. They just posted two listings for tech editors here“and here. In other words, they [...]

PhillyFi, the countdown has begun

Om Malik, Monday, October 3, 2005 at 4:27 PM PT Comments (0)

The city of Philadelphia is on the verge of deciding who get to build and run its WiFi project. While, Google WiFi has occupied the headlines today, I am watching this one closely. It could become the harbinger of things to come, and how cities decide to move forward when considering WiFi plans. I think [...]

30Gigs Email for Free.. Approach With Caution

Om Malik, Monday, October 3, 2005 at 12:21 PM PT Comments (45)

The Internets are buzzing about this free email service 30Gigs.com, that plans to give people 30 gigabytes of email storage, aka 15 times what Google offers with its Gmail service. The new service shows how commoditized the hardware, especially storage has become. Still, as may grandfather used to say, nothing in life is free. Not [...]

gFeedMap maps the blogs

Om Malik, Monday, October 3, 2005 at 8:22 AM PT Comments (10)

Check out gFeedMap. It displays the location of blogs, along with a brief description of them, on a Google map. Pretty nice, but slow and needs to work on getting more blogs.

Dave Taylor Needs Some VoIP Help

Om Malik, Monday, October 3, 2005 at 8:12 AM PT Comments (5)

Dave Taylor, is considering switching to VoIP, but is confused by the plethora of devices, complex implementations and what not. He needs some help. Andy and Aswath, you guys have suggestions? Dave, I think what you need is an hosted phone service (that has companion softphone) for small business. I suggest M5 Networks and Fonality [...]

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