Archive for February, 2006

Apple New What?

Om Malik, Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 2:06 PM PT Comments (24)

Are you feeling a little let down by this morning’s big song and dance at the Infinite Loop down in Cupertino? I know I am! A $599 Mac Mini with Intel, when tricked out to play the role of a media center costs roughly $1000, which makes it simply too expensive for just exclusive “entertainment” [...]

Why (and When) Did Vonage CMO Quit?

Om Malik, Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 10:46 AM PT Comments (6)

Did you know that Vonage’s chief marketing officer (also the chief brand officer), Dean Harris left the VoIP service provider? It is hard to figure out when he really left, though his name is not in the S-1 filing anywhere. I had no idea that he had left the company, and only figured it out [...]

DSL Lifting Small Telecoms As Well

Om Malik, Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 7:27 AM PT Comments (0)

Sure, the big cable companies and Bells are raking in the broadband bonanza, but its good to see the smaller players are enjoying the party as well. This morning, Dallas-based Commonwealth Telephone announced that it had added 10,650 DSL customers in 2005, to take its total to 29,262. CT is the eighth largest publicly held [...]

Cable VoIP, Hotter Than Ever

Om Malik, Monday, February 27, 2006 at 11:56 AM PT Comments (13)

What a whopper of a year for cable telephony!
Cablevision, the last MSO to report its fourth quarter earnings added 130,000 new VoIP customers, up just 7,000 from the previous quarter. The company also added, 94,000 new broadband customers, up from 81,000 adds in the previous quarter. For 2005, Cablevision added 341,793 broadband subscribers and [...]

Edgeio Launches, Finally

Om Malik, Monday, February 27, 2006 at 12:01 AM PT Comments (23)

So much has been written about Edgeio, that it is hard to add anything new to the conversation. The big news is that, it has finally gone live. Go try it out for yourself.
Edgeio is a company co-founded byMike Arrington, who writes the influential Web 2.0 blog, TechCrunch, and Keith Teare who is also CEO [...]

Two Dot Roundup

Om Malik, Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 11:55 PM PT Comments (1)

By Jackson West
Let’s get the Gang of Four out of the way. Google released Google Pages, and almost immediately closed off new sign ups due to demand. Still, it smells a little like Geocities to me. Chris Pirillo, for his part, has decided to go an entire week without using any Google [...]

Google Calendar Some Details

Om Malik, Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 10:49 PM PT Comments (12)

Paul Stone found has some screenshots which show that its not a matter of if, but when Google Calendar launches. I have been trying to nail down the specifics of the calendar for last 15 days, and have found some sketchy details.

It has a user interface quite similar to that of GMail and Google [...]

Technologies Behind Web 2.0

Om Malik, Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 6:56 PM PT Comments (0)

Technologies such as JavaScript and Flash are changing the way we interact with content online. In this week’s PodSession Niall and I discuss the latest trends in the world of rich interactions. Are these technologies interaction too complicated for the average person to grasp? When should you add such technologies to your web page or [...]

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