Archive for June, 2006

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Cablevision Broadband, Now Faster than LIE

Om Malik, Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 12:13 PM PT Comments (12)

Cablevision, a Bethpage, NY (Long Island really) based cable company has announced that it is increasing the speed of its standard broadband connection to 15 megabits-per-second and 2 megabits per second upstream, without any additional costs to the customers. In comparison, the company used to offer speeds of 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream [...]

Skype, Now On Your TV

Om Malik, Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 5:18 AM PT Comments (2)

Oregan Networks, a London-based company has released a Oregan Media Browser, which allows information such as Skype’s in-coming caller ID and message alerts to be displayed on the television screen. Cable companies and Microsoft’s telecom, have talked and demoed such capabilities, but mostly for their own VoIP offerings, leaving Skype out of the loop. [...]

SoonR’s Big Day

Om Malik, Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 5:10 AM PT Comments (10)

Remember SoonR, the company that has come-up with ways to access your desktop from your mobile phone?
Well, June 21 is turning out to be a big day for them. They have just launched their Mac client (beta of course,) which means they are going to get some good visibility in the geek circles. The program [...]

Amsterdam can continue fiber project

Om Malik, Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 4:49 AM PT Comments (2)

The incumbents tried, but failed. Yesterday, the Dutch Lower Chamber voted on a new Telecommunication Law and an amendment of the VVD and CDA parties, which allows the city of Amsterdam to go ahead with its fiber plans. The new law allows municipalities to participate in optical fiber projects. The law has few riders - [...]

Spammers Hit Reddit Too

Om Malik, Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 2:46 AM PT Comments (6)

Reddit, a fast growing community curated news site has been having troubles with spammers and voting bots, according to this post on their site. Apparently, spammers submit spam links and use bots to up-vote their stories. The Reddit team, if you read the comments on the post, is working hard to find solutions to combat [...]

Of Social Nets & Business Models

Robert Young, Monday, June 19, 2006 at 7:30 AM PT Comments (26)

By Robert Young
Last week at a conference in New York City, the head of Fox Interactive Media, Ross Levinsohn, told the audience:
“More mainstream marketing on MySpace will be kept to the “well-lit” areas of the site, like the Books, Comedy, Film, and Games sections rather than on individual profile pages, which have less strict content [...]

Vonage, Now Half The Price

Om Malik, Monday, June 19, 2006 at 3:05 AM PT Comments (13)

Following close on the heels of the news that Verizon is suing Vonage for some sort of patent infringement, upstart VoIP Service Providers declined about $1.09 a share today, down to about $8.51 a share.
Which means, those who paid $17 a share for the IPO, is now down 50%. It just keeps getting uglier… doesn’t [...]

Nokia, Siemens and Juniper’s Future

Om Malik, Sunday, June 18, 2006 at 10:31 PM PT Comments (9)

This news about Nokia and Siemens merging their telecom carrier equipment businesses to form a new $30 billion joint venture company, made me think about two things: the low cost competition from China has everyone spooked, and more importantly, where does this leave Juniper Networks, which is dealing with what could be a problematic options-scandal [...]

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