Archive for October, 2005

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Lightspeed needs six months more

Om Malik, Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 12:09 AM PT Comments (0)

Sometimes Lightspeed is not enough. SBC says it needs six months more to get everything in sync. Now things will be at full speed by “until mid 2008.” Not if Microsoft can help it.

Back 2 Da Roots

Om Malik, Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 10:43 PM PT Comments (2)

As Jeff says, enough of this Web 2.0 stuff. I am going back to the roots. You will see what I mean.

BellSouth adds 205,000 DSL subscribers in 3Q 2005

Om Malik, Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 10:39 PM PT Comments (2)

BellSouth adds 205,000 DSL subscribers in 3Q 2005. In sharp contrast with SBC, 60% of BellSouth’s new customers are coming from higher-priced 1.5-Mbit/s to 3.0-Mbit/s lines. The company now has 2.7 million DSL customers. BellSouth says its getting about 12 Mbit/s with ADSL2+ without bonding and hopes to deploy ADSl2 in 2006.

Aruba gets $25 million

Om Malik, Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 6:22 PM PT Comments (0)

Aruba raises $25 million, prompting Matt Marshall to quip They are either not doing as well as expected, or they are…!

The Whole Kit & Kaboodle

Om Malik, Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 6:17 PM PT Comments (13)

It is only October, but you hear the jingle bells. This is expected to be a break out year for the online retailers. US online retails sales for this holiday season are predicted to top $26.2 billion, up nearly 21.9% from last year. But if you are like countless Americans who gets frustrated by the [...]

FrontRow, One More Time

Om Malik, Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 3:41 PM PT Comments (15)

I admit I have overdosed on the whole Front Row thing, but then I am often accused of pooh-poohing everything, so perhaps when I like something, well I like it. My previous two posts, I Want My Front Row-TV and Microsoft Media Center Vs Apple Front Row have generated some talk. Charlie Owen, who is [...]

A Little Off This GoogleBase

Om Malik, Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 12:13 PM PT Comments (10)

Can you hear the collective gushing over Google Base, the supposedly soon to be released Google’s web-based database that users can build upon?
“Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. We’ll host your content and make it searchable online for free.”
Live-Or-Not-Live status of the product not withstanding, initial [...]

Meet SoonR

Om Malik, Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 12:15 AM PT Comments (16)

SoonR is one of the companies I wrote about today in The Wireless Report on the Business 2.0 website. SoonR Desktop Agent is a tiny piece of software, aka one of the Google Sidebars that lets you Google your desktop from a mobile phone. You can view or share any of the results [...]

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