Archive for March, 2006

Dial Meez To Pimp Your Virtual Self

Om Malik, Friday, March 31, 2006 at 4:23 PM PT Comments (8)

With the virtual worlds breaking out, social networks gaining in popularity, just like blogs and IM, Sean Ryan, a former Real Networks executive, is convinced that there is a money making opportunity when it comes to 3D avatars.
Perhaps that explains why he just launched Meez, the first offering from his San Francisco-based start-up, Donnerwood Media. [...]

HDTV Gone Wireless

Om Malik, Friday, March 31, 2006 at 12:25 PM PT Comments (1)

Chipmaker Metalink which makes VDSL chips will show-off a new chip, WLANPlus that is based on emerging 802.11n standard at The National Show (NCTA), in Atlanta next week. The new chip will allow HDTV streaming wirelessly, the company claims. Several other companies are showing off these similar chips, even though the 802.11n standard is still [...]

Facebook: $750 million or $2 Billion

Om Malik, Friday, March 31, 2006 at 3:30 AM PT Comments (24)

A few days ago there was a lot of chatter over Business Week story that Facebook was on the block, as long as the buyer was ready to pony up $2 billion.
I suggested that the founders of the company should have been prudent and taken the rumored $750 million offer. My argument was that since [...]

Get TalQing with GTalk

Om Malik, Friday, March 31, 2006 at 1:45 AM PT Comments (12)

One of the biggest short comings of Google Talk was that you could not use it to make phone calls to plain old phones. You could do that from Yahoo IM, AOL IM, MSN IM and of course from Skype. But now Fremont, California-based Vozin Communications, has released TalQer, an add-on to the Google [...]

A Quick 30Boxes Update

Om Malik, Friday, March 31, 2006 at 12:50 AM PT Comments (9)

Its been a while since I wrote about 30 Boxes (read my review) and a lot has happened with one of my favorite online calendar apps. Narendra Rocherolle got married. The threat of Google Calendar became very real. 30 Boxes had a little hiccup due to transition to beefier servers.
Why? Because things are going well [...]

Cool.Prepaid: Shaken & Stirred

Om Malik, Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 11:59 PM PT Comments (0)

A couple of days we pointed out that things weren’t going too well at Cool.Prepaid, an MVNO that wanted to do the impossible - marry high end Motorola phones will low end prices - there has been a management shakeout. CEO Marvin Jemal is out and has been replaced by vice chairman Joseph Douek who [...]

Vonage, Selling Itself?

Om Malik, Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 12:50 PM PT Comments (6)

It has been almost two months since Vonage filed its S-1 indicating that it was interested in going public and raising around $250 million from the public markets.
And it has been two months since it updated that document, which to Wall Street insiders means that the company might actually be looking to shop itself to [...]

Desktop Returns, On The Web Of Course

Om Malik, Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 5:32 PM PT Comments (6)

No longer spooked by Microsoft, startup investors are backing desktop-software startups again — but this time, the desktop’s on the Web. You can read rest of my story on Business 2.0/CNN Money website.
The new wave of investment is driven by the convergence of three major trends. First, broadband is spreading everywhere. Second, open-source programming tools [...]

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