Archive for July, 2006

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How Big Is Online Karaoke?

Om Malik, Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 11:02 PM PT Comments (23)

“The whole world is drunk and we’re just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.” — Dean Martin, in The Rat Pack.
That’s perhaps the most appropriate description of what is going [...]

Philly WiFi Chief To Quit

Om Malik, Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 8:08 PM PT Comments (3)

Dianah Neff, the technology czar and champion of Wireless Philadelphia is going to leave her job, and return to the private sector, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Philadelphia daily quotes four unnamed city government sources. Neff’s deputy, Terry Phillis is being wooed to take over the job.
“I have to say that without a doubt [...]

Wireless Spectrum Bidders Put Down Billions

Katie Fehrenbacher, Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 3:00 PM PT Comments (5)

The FCC just released a list of 168 qualified bidders for the AWS spectrum auction coming up on August 9th, and also announced that the process will not involve the controversial blind bidding. We’ve been following the companies interested in bidding pretty closely, and there were a few surprises in the FCC filings, including a [...]

WiFi On Mobiles: Fact or Fiction?

Om Malik, Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 2:45 PM PT Comments (30)

The New York Times takes a look at the emerging trend of mobile phones with built in Wi-Fi connectivity and concludes that the barbarians are at the gates. Their conclusion is that WiFi could pose challenges to the traditional cell phone carriers. Maybe, maybe not!
Instead of relying on standard cellphone networks, the phones will make [...]

Second Life, Bigger Than WoW?

Om Malik, Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 12:30 PM PT Comments (4)

Former Second Life staffer Rueben Steiger crunches the numbers on Second Life’s growth, and figures that if the current rate of 22% monthly growth continues, there will be 3.6 million Second Lifers by July 2007. Slower growth, say 10% every month, will still bring the total number to Second Life to about 936,000 residents. GigaOM [...]

Austin Testing BPL… Why?

Om Malik, Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 11:16 AM PT Comments (6)

BPL, the technology that could work, or not is getting another test, this time in Austin, Texas. The Austin City Council is planning to spend around $317,500 just to test the technology, though there are no plans at present to bring this to the city dwellers. The money will be spent to see if Austin [...]

More Troubles At MySpace

Om Malik, Friday, July 28, 2006 at 2:25 PM PT Comments (72)

Since this morning, we have been noticing increased comment activity on our previous post about MySpace outage. It seems a lot of people are having trouble with the service, and accounts are being deleted. I would have ignored this trend for a wee bit longer, but Mashable is finding similar comments, so this is a [...]

iSkoot for Skype Upgrades

Katie Fehrenbacher, Friday, July 28, 2006 at 2:10 PM PT Comments (2)

iSkoot, a startup that connects Skype over regular cell phones, just upgraded beta software on its site that lets users receive Skype calls, add and remove contacts, and set an online status. The upgrade also adds support for phones like the Motorola RAZR, SLVR L7, PEBL, v557, Nokia 6021, 6030, 6102 and the Sony Ericsson [...]

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