Archive for September, 2006

Yahoo’s Hack Day might have looked a job fair from afar, but the announcements at the show indicate that the company is looking to go outside its campus, and jumpstart its innovation engine. The hack day comes at a time, when dark clouds are gathering over the… Read More »

Senators Mike DeWine (R) and Herb Kohl (D) want AT&T/BellSouth combo to divest some of their WiMAX-related spectrum. The $67 billion BellSouth/AT&T merger is under review and needs to be approved by the Department of Justice and the FCC. DeWine and Kohl want the combined companies… Read More »

More India Telecom Flip Flopping

Following up on our previous report: When in doubt, extend deadlines and postpone decisions. That’s just what happened. While India’s Finance Minister turned down the telecom department’s ‘We give up’ proposal to cancel the increase in FDI in telecom and averred that, “the decision to increase… Read More »

Here is a quick rundown of stories published on Web Worker Daily: Its Flow Time Dislocation and working in strange places Some of our favorite hacks What’s in your refrigerator: Open Thread Plaxo tries internal unconference How do you bag it? Read More »

With all the hoopla around mobile VoIP applications, the mainstream media is beginning to ask the question: where is Skype? Good question actually, one we have been asking for sometime now. Business Week has picked up a report in a finnish newspaper, where (thankfully) Skype Chief… Read More »

Unlike US, PC penetration is not that high even in many developed countries, such as France, thereby limiting growth opportunities for broadband service providers. Neuf Cegetel, a French ISP, thinks low cost Linux PCs are the answer. The company has come up with Easy Gate, a… Read More »

We must have touched a nerve yesterday when we said Helio might be the next MVNO to fall, now that Mobile ESPN is closing shop. The Helio folks wrote us a long note explaining why they’re not going to follow Mobile ESPN into the darkness, and… Read More »

Why RIM Keeps Winning?

RIM, which had a nice second quarter is expected to have an even better third quarter, thanks to the new Pearl device they have just released and is getting an enthusiastic response. The company expects to add 800,000 subscribers in the third quarter, about 50,000 more… Read More »

CDNs, They Are Hot

By Allan Leinwand The mid-1990s content delivery networking technology deployed by Akamai, Digital Island (now part of Savvis) and Speedera (acquired by Akamai) to distribute content close to the consumer edge of the Internet should be yesterday’s news given the bandwidth boosts, and the… Read More »

Google Launches Reader Upgrades

This just in – Google has launched an upgrade to its online RSS reader, and many of the changes are welcome improvements. For starters the UI which matches Google Calendar and Google Mail is so much better that what was – not ideal, but definitely worth… Read More »

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