Archive for September 2006
After the dot-com bust and IT slowdown nearly crushed the startup he co-founded, entrepreneur Alok Mittal realized India’s business environment had a major shortcoming. There was no money for early stage companies. He survived–selling the startup he co-founded, jobsahead.com, to Monster.com … Read More »
We all know about South Korea, where broadband adoption has been driven by a gaming culture nonpareil. Hong Kong City Broadband, a company that sells 100 megabit connections for peanuts (I have written about them in the past) is now starting to push a … Read More »
For obvious reasons, I have been preoccupied, but I wanted to take a moment to point out the Vonage story in the New York Times, which despite being well intentioned fails to ask the tough questions, and falls back on rather tame and self serving … Read More »
Local cafes can provide a strong dose of caffeine, free WiFi, and power to help you write, code, or troubleshoot. The best cafes have comfortable tables, quality coffee and espresso, and talented baristas.
The west cost of the United States is lucky to have quality work-friendly cafes. … Read More »
Broadband, as I have written in the past, is freeing us from the geographic restrictions. Broadband, the platform, is changing the workforce, innovation and entrepreneurship. Virtual workers, virtual start ups are now becoming part of popular vernacular. Going Bedouin is the buzz.
The trend is so … Read More »
After nearly two decades of working in an office, I recently decided to strike out on my own. You might have read about it. And almost overnight, the proverbial cubicle walls vanished, and I became part of a growing number of folks who work from … Read More »
Job security, forty hour weeks, two Martini lunches, ties, nylons and handwritten memos are now relics of the past, while freelancing, flex time, lattes, company t-shirts, jeans and email are de rigeur. An ‘office’ now includes idyllic campuses that can be lived in, well, to … Read More »
At Macworld, when introducing the new Mac OS X Leopard to Apple developers, maverick CEO Steve Jobs talked at length about how the Mail.app was getting a big overhaul.
I send a lot of notes to myself because my inbox is really where I need to … Read More »
By Jackson West. Forget Palo Alto garages — San Francisco coffee shops are where to get your startup off the ground. Internet cafes are emerging as an important place to get work done, hold meetings and network. Since writers, designers, developers and … Read More »
More Must Reads
By Om Malik
Sep. 4, 2006, 2:00pm PT
Scott Johnson, a good friend of ours and founder of Ookles offers up 10 Tips for Managing Virtual Workers.
1. Its Not Cheaper.
2. Hire Correctly.
3. Document Everything.
4. Metrics, Metrics, Metrics.
5. Once Per Quarter Go Face to Face.
6. Don’t Let Engineers Go Dark. Ever.
7. … Read More »
By Om Malik
Sep. 4, 2006, 12:30pm PT
By Greg Olsen, Coghead Software
Little did I know how truly pervasive Bedouinism was when I wrote Going Bedouin. The number of emails, comments, and related posts I’ve since come across on the subject has been astounding (at least to a blogging newbie … Read More »
By Om Malik
Sep. 4, 2006, 12:00pm PT
By Greg Olsen.
Anyone who works in the Silicon Valley knows the fable of the company that achieves spectacular success, then moves into new luxurious headquarters, and then immediately starts its decline. In this fable, the “new headquarters” event equates to “jumping the shark … Read More »
By Robert Young
Sep. 4, 2006, 11:03am PT
Chris Anderson in his book, The Long Tail (read Chris’ book), divides the power law distribution curve into only two segments… the hit-driven head (Big Head) and, obviously, the long tail. What’s missing is actually the most important part… the section in the … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Sep. 4, 2006, 8:18am PT
Sony Japan this week announced the introduction of two new accessories for the PSP designed to extend the usefulness of the mobile device. The PSP Camera is a 1.3 megapixel camera that shoots still photos or video at 30 frames per second and is to be … Read More »
By Jackson West
Sep. 4, 2006, 2:28am PT
I don’t live in Austin, but I kinda wish I did. My friend from college who grew up there just bought a house within ten minutes by bike or bus from downtown for less than $110,000. I pay more in rent for my San … Read More »
By Guest Column
Sep. 3, 2006, 3:24pm PT
By Narendra Rocherolle
I have become a bit of a Web2.0 junkie. Why not? For product development and innovation, there haven’t been so many new things happening since 1995. I mean *big* things, like, “Wow, you can animate a gif file! This changes everything!” … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Sep. 3, 2006, 1:18pm PT
By Om Malik
Sep. 3, 2006, 12:11pm PT
The weekend is in full swing, and given that it is the long weekend, a lot of folks are enjoying what is supposed to be the end of summer. We at GigaOM are puttering away, crafting some posts for our readers. So busy did we get, … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Sep. 2, 2006, 12:48pm PT
MechCommander was at the cutting edge of gaming technology when it was first introduced in the late 90′s and I’ll bet I spent more hours playing the game than I care to admit. It quickly became a benchmark for games at that time it was … Read More »
By Liz Gannes
Sep. 1, 2006, 10:52pm PT
MySpace is opening shop as an indie record store — make that 3 million indie record stores. Using Snocap’s backend, MySpace plans to give all the musical artists on its site the option to set up online storefronts on their profile pages and … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 1, 2006, 7:34pm PT
By James Kendrick
Sep. 1, 2006, 3:48pm PT
I’ve made no secret how much I have enjoyed using my Palm Treo 700w but there is one thing I demand from my tools and that is reliability. This is especially true for my mobile phone because I run my business from my phone through … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Sep. 1, 2006, 3:05pm PT
GPS.RADAR is a new program for UMPCs that drives a GPS unit and helps you find out where you are and where you are going. It is optimized for the screen resolution of UMPCs (800×480) and can be run with either the stylus or fingertip. … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 1, 2006, 11:36am PT
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 1, 2006, 9:57am PT
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 1, 2006, 9:27am PT
Anycom might have made a Bluetooth mouse believer out of me with their new BTM-100; I’m a non-mouse user thanks to the touchscreen, but I can be persuaded. ;) Anycom changed the radio chip in this model and according to the company that “extends the … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Sep. 1, 2006, 8:58am PT
Fans of the SPB Diary program should be happy: the latest version of the Today plug-in became available earlier this week. Version 2.0 of SPB Diary includes new features like:
Dialing by photo contact
Additional … Read More »
By Om Malik
Sep. 1, 2006, 8:54am PT
Alcatel wants to be the big cheese in the 3G market. The company announced today that it is buying Nortel’s UMTS business for about $320 million. If Lucent-merger made Alcatel a big player in the CDMA market, the Nortel deal gives it more heft … Read More »
By Om Malik
Sep. 1, 2006, 7:13am PT
With 3G Services around the corner, most modern mobile phones are packed with features – cameras, music players, web browsers and video playback, to name a few. Motorola and Nokia call them mobile Internet terminals. While all this sounds nice in theory, in reality the new … Read More »
By Om Malik
Sep. 1, 2006, 5:30am PT
Technology is a brutal business – you age publicly, almost like a former heart throb, to an object of pity. Take the case of three optical hardware makers – Ciena, White Rock Networks and Infinera. Ciena hit the skids because of slower than expected sales. … Read More »
By Om Malik
Sep. 1, 2006, 3:30am PT
JDS Uniphase’s latest financial report, and weak guidance sent the optical gear maker’s stock reeling. However, it could be a red flag for all companies tied into the Broadband Access ecosystem.
“The surprise of the quarter was the weak guidance for test and measurement related gear,” Read More »
By Liz Gannes
Sep. 1, 2006, 12:00am PT
A couple launches to watch out for after the long weekend:
MyStrands (formerly MusicStrands), a social music recommendation service, is working on mobile social software for partygoers called partyStrands — think a Dodgeball-jukebox hybrid. Visitors to a participating bar can text song requests or link … Read More »
