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The incumbents world wide are facing a difficult time, according to research firms, Gartner and In-Stat. They are caught between a rock and a hard place. A whole generation is leaving behind wireline voice and switching to a wireless only lifestyle. On the other hand, VoIP is having a deflationary effect on prices, and is [...]

James Enck, while visiting San Francisco, was unabashedly enthusiastic about many European countries moving aggressively towards what he thinks is a “municipal fiber revolution.” Ireland, for example is building 120 metro area networks (aka rings around the cities, not last mile connections), while France has similar fiber ambitions. In addition, Muniwireless says that the European [...]

The $34 billion merger of Lucent and Alcatel, if approved, will unleash a wave of mergers in the telecom equipment sector. Will Cisco merge with Motorola? What will happen to a host of smaller companies? This and more issues are covered in my story, Life after Lucent: telecom feeding frenzy, which is up on [...]

Looks like we all went trigger happy this week - in the blogging sense of course.
Earlier this past week, there was word that nearly 60% of the Microsoft Vista was going to be rewritten, a move that caused a big furor. Now, if you stopped to think for even a few seconds, it seemed improbable, [...]

Andy Abramson just scored a big scoop. He has discovered that Kazaa, Skype, its co-founders Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and several related parties have been sued for RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) violations by their rival StreamCast Networks, a company that made Morpheus peer-to-peer software. The suit was filed in the US District [...]

Web 2.0 which I define as ability to do a lot more with a lot less inside of a web browser - and the ensuing funding madness has finally started to go global - albeit very slowly. Netvibes, a Paris-based start-up last week raised a million dollars in angel funding from the likes of Martin [...]