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Someone who has been spoiled by 30Boxes and Zimbra’s calendaring application, Google Calendar looks pretty mundane. But main stream users looking for a simple web-based calendar that is easy to use, will Google Calendar, (announced earlier today,) capable of doing a good job.
Unlike previous Google releases, this one is visually more complete, though lags when [...]

By Cyrus Farivar
While I may not be a cheap graduate student anymore, I still try to pinch my pennies as much as possible. As such, as far as Internet service goes, I’m more sensitive to lower prices (for lower service), than I am to getting double or triple the bandwidth for $10 or $15 more.
My [...]

If you have tried to do search on non-qwerty mobile phones, then you are all too familiar with the frustrations that go along with it. Piper Jaffray projects the global mobile search revenues will generate $11 billion by 2008. While that number might seem a tad overoptimistic, the lure of the billions has most mobile [...]

What a week… a wave of mergers has hit the VoIP space. First Comverse acquired Netcentrex for $164 million in what seems to be a move to round out its triple play portfolio.
Then Genesys, a division of Alcatel that makes contact/call center products acquired-rival and #2 player in the market, Toronto-based VoiceGenie, for an undisclosed [...]

Iceland has replaced South Korea with the highest broadband penetration, according to 2005 broadband statistics released by OECD. Iceland now has 26.7 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, ahead of Korea with 25.4, and Netherlands with 25.3. US has 16.8 broadband connections per 100 subscribers.
Actually in sheer numbers Iceland has 78017 subscribers while Korea has 12.19 million [...]

Forrester Research just released a new report, The State Of Internet Access, based on a survey of more than 4,500 US households and here are some of the key findings.
* More than 50% of online US households are using broadband.
* DSL is gaining ground on cable.
* Consumers are still more interested in price than speed.
* [...]