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Bell, CableCo Turf Wars & The Poor Customer

Om Malik, Friday, November 24, 2006 at 1:00 PM PT Comments (2)

The New York Times has a hilarious tale of turf wars between phone companies and cable companies reaching new ridiculous heights. Both sides are pointing fingers at each other, bemoaning that their rivals are damaging their equipment and causing service problems.
In Phoenix for example, Qwest charges that Cox Communications’ technicians left a hole in the [...]

Behind the scenes: The PlayStation 3 Story

Wagner James Au, Friday, November 24, 2006 at 10:30 AM PT Comments (17)

There’s got to be a great story behind the rise and precipitous fall of the Sony Playstation, once the industry’s dominant console, but now in its latest incarnation, the PS3, an overpriced also-ran struggling to keep up with the Nintendo Wii and trailing far behind the Microsoft Xbox 360.
From all signs, it’ll be a tale [...]

Dissing Digg… Why?

Om Malik, Friday, November 24, 2006 at 8:59 AM PT Comments (14)

Earlier this morning, while checking out Techmeme, one story that caught my eye was “Kevin Rose Admitting Digg Has Moderators.” The whole brouhaha is around the fact a story with a single Digg can make it to the front page of Digg.com, and the evidence that was presented was a screenshot of an IM conversation [...]

3 Italia not for sale

Om Malik, Friday, November 24, 2006 at 8:23 AM PT Comments (1)

Rumors of Hutchison Whampoa offloading their European 3G network, 3 has been creating a lot of talk, and has caught the attention of big guns like Vodafone Chief Executive Arun Sarin, who has indicated an interest in buying 3. Orange seems to be interested as well. Whatever happens to the 3 network, for now the [...]

Yahoo & Peanut Butter Market Timing

Om Malik, Thursday, November 23, 2006 at 8:38 PM PT Comments (9)

The aftershocks of the Peanut Butter Manifesto continue to be felt long after the explosions stopped. Earlier this week, The Street.com noted that Brad Garlinghouse, author of the PBM had worked at @Home, CMGI’s @ Ventures and at DialPad, three entities that met ignominious fate.
The fact that this observation was included in the snarky “Five [...]

A Web Worker Thanks Giving

Om Malik, Thursday, November 23, 2006 at 11:02 AM PT Comments (2)

Anne Zelenka has penned a great essay on many things web workers can be thankful for this Thanksgiving.
There is the whole notion about wearing slippers to work, or not worrying about how you look (aka savings on shaving supplies for me) and of course you can work with whomever you want. I personally am thankful [...]

European Internet Investments Going Up

Om Malik, Thursday, November 23, 2006 at 10:00 AM PT Comments (5)

The Internet investment mania is spread to European, notes Paul Fisher, associate director with First Capital, a UK based VC firm. He has put together a list of seed and series A deals, and the amounts raised are already higher than 2005, he points out.
Some of the deals he notes are Netvibes, PageFlakes, Last.fm, DailyMotion, [...]

Free TiVo and other Thanksgiving Shopping Tips

Om Malik, Thursday, November 23, 2006 at 9:29 AM PT Comments (2)

Okay, atleast in the US, the shopping madness is about to kick off. I got a few tips emailed to me in case you are interested. (I will update the post, as I hear about more interesting gizmo/broadband deals.
You can get a free TiVo Series2 (80 hours) device as part of a special promotion by [...]

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