Archive for August, 2006

America’s Most Unwired Cities

Om Malik, Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 11:43 PM PT Comments (5)

Forbes has put together a list of most wired cities in the US, which puts Atlanta at #1, San Francisco somewhere down there, and San Jose nowhere. Don’t ask! In response, we checked with WiFi directory service, JiWire and found that San Francisco is the most “unwired” city and has 805 hotspots, including 375 free [...]

In Germany Broadband Price Wars Breakout

Om Malik, Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 9:52 PM PT Comments (4)

Less than a month after European Union ordered German incumbent telecom operator, Deutsche Telekom to share its fiber/VDSL network with rivals, the company announced that it was slashing prices by 30% in what can easily be viewed as a bid to hang onto its market share.
The company is offering a quad play offering for about [...]

YouTube Challenges Facebook

Liz Gannes, Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 10:00 AM PT Comments (8)

YouTube just flexed its social networking muscles by adding restricted college-specific video-sharing areas. The site has long had many of the features of a social network (personal profiles, friending, et cetera), but so much of its utility is in showing videos to everybody and anybody. Now, with the release of YouTube Colleges, the company has [...]

Limelight Looking For New CEO

Om Malik, Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 7:59 AM PT Comments (7)

Remember Limelight Networks, the content delivery network, which recently raised $130 million, and has made headlines for being the infrastructure provider to hot Web 2.0 start-ups such as You Tube? Well the company is looking for a new chief executive, according to some documents. The company has hired James & Co, a head hunting firm [...]

Samsung says get ready for 4G

Om Malik, Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 12:11 AM PT Comments (9)

Samsung is showing off a new 4G wireless technology that allows people to connect to the Internet at 100 megabits per second in a vehicle moving at 37 miles per hour. With that you can get 32 channels of video, make video calls and oh, surf the Internet. It is also showing off a one [...]

AOL Totaltalk - Red or Dead?

Om Malik, Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 10:56 PM PT Comments (14)

Last year, America Online (AOL) had launched Total Talk, a VoIP service for consumers, hoping to get a piece of what was seen as a really hot market. Well, looks like our good friend, Aswath had discovered that AOL Total Talk is slotted to go off line on November 30, 2006. Aswath wonders if AOL [...]

For Guba, a Quarter Buys a Headline

Liz Gannes, Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 9:09 PM PT Comments (5)

How did Guba dupe everyone into writing up its “Tell a Friend” affiliate deal to pay out 25 cents to people who refer new users? People, it’s a quarter! When I visited the Guba offices recently, they grabbed me a couple quarters out of a company bucket to pay for the parking meter in front. [...]

Juniper Invests in Trapeze Networks

Om Malik, Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 7:49 PM PT Comments (4)

It was over a year ago Juniper Networks and enterprise wireless LAN maker Trapeze Networks were linked together. But it was all talk. Fast forward to today - Telephony magazine reports that the company raised $30 million in Series D funding from Accel, Redpoint, Oak, and a bunch of previous investors. But the biggest surprise [...]

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