Archive for January, 2006

While I was busy chasing down stories about Google’s earnings, finishing up my story for the magazine, the blogbees were doing their thing, trying to make sense of disparate bits of information, and assembling them into a honey pot about Google’s VoIP plans. Atleast the click-to-call… Read More »

G-Oh-Oh-G

Google is off nearly $65 in after hours trading…. Bloomberg’s report had my head spinning, so instead I opted to read The Street.com. the search giant put its non-GAAP earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31 at $1.54 a share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call were… Read More »

Vodafone’s German fixed mobile subsidiary Arcor is getting serious about offering broadband and competing with the existing players. A few days ago the company announced that it would launch ADSL2 services on February 1, 2005 in 300 cities across the country. Arcor has 1.1 mln customers.… Read More »

There are three billion phones on the planet – two billion fixed phones and another billion mobile. The percentage of those utilizing Voice-over-IP technology is so small that it doesn’t show up on the radar. In-Stat research estimates that there were a total of 16… Read More »

Google Goes P2P?

John Battelle says Google is going P2P via ShareLive which used to be a file sharing site. Read More »

Nicholas Carr: Could it be that what Microsoft really fears is that the adoption of ODF [Open Document Format] won’t be a failure but a success? Read More »

TeleGeography Research says that Hungary now has 9.32 million and the mobile penetration has reached 92.4%, making it one of the more mature markets in Europe. Read More »

Google Is Sellout.com

Andy Kessler writes in today’s The Wall Street Journal that like all cool rockstars, selling out has basically cost Google its core audience but that might not be all. Google could have kept their cool and trusted image if they’d just worked with someone else in… Read More »

Echostar, Liberty Media Back Sling

Sling Media has raised $46.6 Million in funding from Goldman, Sachs & Co., John Malone’s Liberty Media Corporation and Echostar Communications and original investors, DCM – Doll Capital Management, Mobius Venture Capital and Hearst Corporation. The company had raised around $15 million in previous rounds of… Read More »

How To Sync Yahoo PIM, iCal & Address Book?

If you are like me, then syncing your iCal and Address Book with Yahoo’s web-based PIM has been virtually impossible. Given Yahoo’s long standing apathy for MacOS had sent many of us into the warm, comfortable embrace of Apple’s own .Mac service. Of course, a cuddle… Read More »

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