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Convergence towards a single device - not anytime soon
Even the raw-component makers are getting excited by the digital media revolution. Imation acquires Memorex for $330 million.
Skype Presence for TypePad? That would be nice.
Susan Crawford: We need a self-owned internet (II)
Is Skype forgetting its Customers?

Music sales down were down 2% for 2005, mostly because of increased entertainment options. Not to mention terrible releases from the Big 4 labels.

It was a bad week for search related companies. Yahoo disappointed, and with it the sentiment on search companies turned a little bearish. Soon after, there was an uproar when DoJ asking Google and others to hand over certain information. (An alternate opinion is here!)
Suddenly we were all thinking about cached life. Google plummeted nearly [...]

Jeff Pulver, wireless pioneer Craig McCaw, telecom banker Michael Price and former Apple CEO John Sculley have teamed together in a new VoIP focussed start-up called Tello, based in San Mateo, California. Doug Renert, a former executive at Oracle Corp heads up the start-up.
Tello is the brainchild of Jeff Pulver, and was founded in late [...]

Chris Stern, a former telecom reporter turned media analyst, writes in The Washington Post about the great debate on the network neutrality, the tier-ing of the Internet. It is an interesting and perhaps well written article, that is going to make the general audience aware of the troubled future of network neutrality and tier-ing of [...]

Apparently, Verizon is very aggressively marketing its FTTH/FIOS service to consumers by sending them second day air UPS letters. This whole FTTH and FIOS TV is cash money when el-cheapo Bells are spending the big moolah! However, there might be another angle to it. By end of 2006, VZ will have fiber in nearly 200 [...]