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… Read More »
Archive for August, 2006
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… Read More »
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,… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
