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A story in the San Francisco Examiner this weekend says that the rift is growing between those that think San Francisco’s planned city WiFi network should be owned and run by the Earthlink/Google team, versus those that think a network should be owned by the city: Continue »

Like a lot of you, I spent some time this past weekend reading Brad Garlinghouse’s “Peanut Butter Manisfesto” to fellow Yahoo executives… also reading all the reactions in and around the blogosphere. Not to make light of a serious situation, but I have to agree with Nick Denton when he dubs Garlinghouse as Silicon Valley’s own “Jerry Maguire”. Continue »

As more and more cell phone users access the mobile web, it’s not a surprise that mobile search is becoming one of the first widely-used mobile web services — fifteen percent of Koreans that access the Internet with a cell phone use mobile search, according to this Korea Times article today, and Google and SK Telecom plan to release their mobile search engine next month to push that number even higher. In comparison, 8% of cell phone users have ever searched the web via cell phones in the U.K., and a little over 10 million have tried it out at least once in the U.S., according to M:Metrics. Continue »

Akamai has bought Nine Systems for about $160 million dollars, the company announced this morning. We had previously reported on this pending merger exclusively. We had asked Akamai to respond, but kept on waiting, only to read about the news on the wires. Continue »

The Economist has a piece this week on professional bloggers that mentions our little business. It’s a simplistic piece (for non-bloggers, obviously), but it’s fun to see our fearless leader talking about his sleepless nights to a bit of a different audience. Continue »

AT&T, prior to being bought by SBC was pretty high on WiMAX, and they continue to play around with the technology. Now there is word of a trial in Nevada. Telephony Online says they are trialling pre-certification mobile WiMAX technology from Soma Networks in Pahrump, Nevada. Continue »

Wordpress has teamed up with RSS platform provider KnowNow in a deal that will help expand Wordpress into the enterprise, writes Automattic CEO Toni Schneider on his blog. It will be called the KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition (KWEE.) Disclosure: Toni is a general partner at True Ventures, an investor in GigaOM. Continue »

The big story of last week was the launch of the two new gaming consoles, Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii. With the launch of these two platforms, the gaming generation upgrade is near complete. So far, Nintendo is being viewed as the unlikely winner, and PlayStation 3 as the big loser. Continue »