Archive for September 2006
If we don’t see this LG phone make it over from Asia, I sure hope that somebody plans to integrate the technology here. LG is showing off a phone with Bluetooth, a … Read More »
Trulia’s housing search engine will be a year old this week, and the San Francisco-based company is releasing a big batch of upgrades that should make it a worthy player in the real estate market. Until now, Trulia’s claim to fame was being one of … Read More »
Microsoft’s Mike Hall has blogged the news that the next version of Windows CE, 6.0, has been delivered to the hands of OEMs to begin building devices with the new OS. There will no doubt be a lag before we start seeing these new devices … Read More »
What if you could build a set top box, that could take high definition video input from satellite, and at the same time be able to take standard definition Internet video over Broadband and display both of them on your television? And while you are at … Read More »
For a country with just over a million fixed line phones and three million mobile phones, Bangladesh is making a surprising, and welcome leap to the FTTP world. Link 3 Technologies, a local data connectivity provider is going to build a FTTH network in the … Read More »
It’s not too big of a surprise that various wireless providers would focus on building out high speed wireless broadband options throughout Northern California. Whether its 3G, muni WiFi or even one day WiMAX, early adopter dominated regions like Silicon Valley and the Bay Area (that … Read More »
More Must Reads
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 20, 2006, 8:25am PT
By Om Malik
Sep. 20, 2006, 8:14am PT
Aswath isn’t going to be thrilled with the headline, but I am still calling it VoIP. Cable giant, thanks to some aggressive marketing and bundling has managed to chalk up a million digital voice (VoIP) customers. The growth has been so good that the company … Read More »
By Liz Gannes
Sep. 20, 2006, 7:44am PT
By James Kendrick
Sep. 20, 2006, 6:01am PT
Sony employee Raphael Salgado let me know that Sony is internally stating the Vaio UX280P Micro PC will be available on October 18. The VGN-280P is the next generation in the UX Micro PC line that has a 1.2 GHz Pentium M and ups the memory to … Read More »
By Om Malik
Sep. 19, 2006, 11:43pm PT
Disney CEO Roger Iger did a bit of chest thumping today and said that they sold 125,000 movies for about a million dollars at the iTunes store.That’s is good news for him and Disney, but I wonder how much money is being earned by Apple.
With … Read More »
By Om Malik
Sep. 19, 2006, 10:58pm PT
GigaTeam was visiting GooglePlex today, meeting with a few executives. If there was anyone at Google who was worrying about an online advertising slowdown, we did not run into them! Jokes aside, the sharp decline in Yahoo’s stock, about 13% for the day, following CEO Terry … Read More »
By Jackson West
Sep. 19, 2006, 10:10pm PT
By Tony Conrad, CEO/Co-Founder Sphere
One of the amazing changes taking place in the tech space is companies being formed around a virtual work environment. Sphere has operated this way since inception. The four founders are based in San Francisco, Seattle & Denver. We have team … Read More »
By Om Malik
Sep. 19, 2006, 9:55pm PT
Is Yahoo’s warning of an online advertising slowdown a sign of the times and an end to the online advertising boom? Is it part of a broader economic crisis? Or is it just a Yahoo specific problem? What’s your take on the the sharp volte … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Sep. 19, 2006, 12:07pm PT
MySpace has plans to expand to China, hopefully in partnership with a local wireless operator. China is one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world, and could have has plans to work with a local wireless operator. According to a source in China, MySpace … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 19, 2006, 10:50am PT
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 19, 2006, 9:27am PT
By James Kendrick
Sep. 19, 2006, 8:16am PT
I have spent the past hour trying in vain to get Bluetooth ActiveSync (4.2) working between the XV6700 and Flash (Samsung Q1 SSD). This was another hour I did not have to spare that I was forced to waste trying to get the connection working. What … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 19, 2006, 7:34am PT
By Om Malik
Sep. 19, 2006, 7:05am PT
Wireless sharing start-up, FON is offering a $5 wireless router, as long as you are willing to become a Fonero and share your broadband access. Check it out, it might save you some dollars. Full review to follow soon. Just posted about this on … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 19, 2006, 6:58am PT
Wow, there’s mobile and there’s MOBILE. This guide falls under the latter category and although it’s a solution to a specific problem, it’s very modular … Read More »
By Om Malik
Sep. 19, 2006, 6:49am PT
FON, a wireless services company that raised over $21.7 million from Google, Skype and Sequoia Capital earlier this year is putting its money to use now – by offering a tiny wireless router that lets you become a Fonero instantly and costs $5. I … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 19, 2006, 6:19am PT
Got a Toshiba Satellite or Dynabook? If so, keep your peepers peeled for a potential recall notice. Reuters has a blurb on the news and Engadget has more deets. Apparently, about 340,000 Sony batteries with potential problems are powering these Toshiba models. No … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 19, 2006, 5:56am PT
By Liz Gannes
Sep. 19, 2006, 5:00am PT
Reid Hoffman is a busy guy. Along with being the full-time CEO of LinkedIn, he’s an active angel investor, and has participated in the financing of over 50 companies. Since his time at PayPal, Hoffman has culled a classy list of angel investments: Digg, … Read More »
By Shailaja Neelakantan
Sep. 19, 2006, 12:01am PT
By Om Malik
Sep. 18, 2006, 11:32pm PT
SIPphone, the company behind Gizmo Project says it is extending its All Calls Free calling plan to business users world wide. The company is especially targeting the small to mid-sized companies. The way it works, is that those who want to make phone calls … Read More »
By Liz Gannes
Sep. 18, 2006, 10:29pm PT
YouTube’s deal with Warner is definitely a great first step. Licenses to music videos, and especially allowances for member videos that use Warner music, make YouTube more than just the biggest video site (read: hot air balloon) on the web. Just a month ago … Read More »
By Robert Young
Sep. 18, 2006, 9:00pm PT
By Om Malik
Sep. 18, 2006, 8:48pm PT
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Sep. 18, 2006, 7:26pm PT
Updated, 09/19/06: After more than a month of bidding on the AWS wireless spectrum, the hotly contested auction was becoming a bit of a snooze. Even we were getting tired of following the slow-moving process in its closing days. But today the FCC said … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 18, 2006, 3:56pm PT
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: who needs an iPod when you can listen to music that’s genetically engineered for your liking? … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 18, 2006, 12:15pm PT
This pic from The Register is either a really big hand or a relatively small 32 GB NAND flash disk drive. Since we already read the article, we won’t keep you guessing: it’s a flash drive and it’s from TDK. Apparently, TDK has handed … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 18, 2006, 11:48am PT
It feels like it was a scant four months ago that HP’s tc4400 got the Intel Core Duo chip. Oh, wait: it was. That’s OK; mobile … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Sep. 18, 2006, 8:54am PT
There are a number of small USB-based HDTV devices out there but the AutumnWave OnAir HDTV GT has a few things that set it apart from the crowd. It’s a small gadget that can receive HDTV and Digital TV over the air waves and acts … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 18, 2006, 8:52am PT
By Om Malik
Sep. 18, 2006, 8:45am PT
Email has become the necessary evil of modern communication – damn if you use it, and damn if you don’t. Like most modern virtual workers, I am swamped by an unending stream of email, which pours like torrential monsoon in downtown Bombay.
With over 500 emails a … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Sep. 18, 2006, 8:41am PT
