GigaOM

Business 2.0 has a short but sweet story on Netflix, and the evolution of its envelope from its early days to now. (Photos are here.)
In 1999, Netflix started out with a heavy cardboard mailer. With only 100,000 subscribers, costs weren’t a concern yet. Then the company experimented with plastic envelopes, which proved not to be [...]

eBay is very very worried about Google and is trying to work with either Yahoo or MSN (or both) to try and blunt Google, reports The Wall Street Journal. It is a big article about the age old saying: enemy of my enemy is a friend. The really juicy bit is about the consulting giant [...]

Every so often stores pop up about Skype being blocked in some country or the other, with some start-ups bragging how they did this. Now comes word that it is hard to detect Skype-packets. Russell Shaw points to analysis by Art Reisman, CTO of APconnections, a company that specialized in packet shaping technology. Reisman could [...]

Om and Niall PodSessions‘ latest session is up. We are discussing video’s big move to the move. I decided to talk about all the stuff - streaming versus downloads and other such things in this podsession. I was going to blog it, but got busy with other stuff. You can keep up with all my [...]

For second consecutive quarter BellSouth defied the industry trend of bargain DSL connections, adding more premium DSL subscribers than ever before. The company added 263,000 new DSL lines, of which a whopping 80% opted for the two highest speed (3 Mbps and 6 Mbps) offerings. As a result the DSL margins improved, theorize the analysts [...]

In an effort to take on the Google’s online storage efforts, it seems Microsoft is about to launch a new online storage service. The word of this online storage drive effort is embedded deep in the Fortune magazine story on Ray Ozzie. (Business 2.0’s next issue has an interview with Ozzie by John Battelle. Its [...]