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 »
Archive for September, 2006
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 »
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 »
