Archive for January, 2007

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Devicescape in Overhype Mode

Om Malik, Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 10:07 AM PT Comments (8)

Devicescape, a San Bruno company that makes Wi-Fi software put out a press release that is basically a whole bunch of lies. They claim that their software “enables effortless network access for Wi-Fi Devices - Any Device, Any Network, Any Time.” Talk about a headline that fudges the truth. Of course, at the bottom [...]

Sprint expand EVDO Rev A Footprint

Om Malik, Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 8:01 AM PT Comments (10)

Sprint this morning announced that it is adding three more markets - Miami, Portland and Puerto Rico - to its list of 21 cities where it is currently offering EVDO Rev-A wireless broadband access.
EVDO Rev A has higher speeds - 350-500 Kbps (compared with 50-70 Kbps of current EVDO networks) and average download speeds of [...]

Spencer Steps Aside as Digium CEO

Paul Kapustka, Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 12:19 AM PT Comments (1)

According to Alec Saunders, who apparently never sleeps and was awake to see an early press release, Adtran COO Danny Windham is moving over to Digium to be CEO of the open source IP PBX vendor.
Asterisk inventor Mark Spencer will become CTO and chairman, according to the blog of Jeremy McNamara. Given Windham’s background, this [...]

PC Gaming: XP Pwns Vista?!

Om Malik, Monday, January 29, 2007 at 9:43 PM PT Comments (1)

Windows Vista is finally here. But how will it perform with current and older games? This is an issue that many gamers are hinging their purchase decision on, and it doesn’t look all that great for Microsoft right now. Continue reading

Fox in talks to buy online ad company

Om Malik, Monday, January 29, 2007 at 9:09 PM PT Comments (6)

Fox Interactive Media, after a period of relative quiet, is getting acquisitive again. The company is said to be in talks to acquire Strategic Data Corp., a company based in Santa Monica, California, that helps online publishers optimize their online advertising yields.
Talks are at an advanced stage, though no deal has been finalized. Fox routinely [...]

eBay - Second Life Good, WoW no good

Om Malik, Monday, January 29, 2007 at 9:00 PM PT Comments (0)

Last Friday, Slashdot’s Zonk confirmed rumors that eBay was delisting RMT items from their service. Short for “real money transfer”, RMT is a gray market means for gamers to buy and sell an online world’s precious items. GigaGamez has more details.

DEMOing for Dollars in the Desert

Katie Fehrenbacher, Monday, January 29, 2007 at 2:56 PM PT Comments (11)

The first DEMO convention of the year starts Tuesday night down in the So Cali desert, where 68 startups will try to get noticed by the 700 or so expected press, VCs, and industry execs. For every Skype or Ironport that have launched products at the show, there’s hundreds of Browsters or Filmloops that make [...]

Reid Hoffman on LinkedIn’s plans

Om Malik, Monday, January 29, 2007 at 1:54 PM PT Comments (0)

Reid Hoffman has left a long response to what LinkedIn is going to do with the money in the comments. Here is a quick link, if you want to understand where LI is going.

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