Nokia’s financial report card for the fourth quarter 2006 shows that the Finnish giant posted higher revenues ($15.22 billion), higher earnings ($1.65 billion), and higher share of the global handset business (35.2 %.) Nokia’s margins declined a fraction, and so did the average selling price of … Read More »
Archive for January 2007
It’s no secret that I think that voice input and speech recognition in mobile devices will some day revolutionize the way we get things done. While speech recognition is not quite … Read More »
The ever-opinionated Mark Cuban presents four potential problems for the mainstream adoption of BitTorrent-type P2P networks for content distribution. [Blog Maverick] Waxy.org takes a fascinating look at how many movies nominated for Academy Awards are already online, and how it affects the practice of distributing screeners … Read More »
Open-source IP PBXs were supposed to target the incumbent telephony world’s lunch. But right now the Asterisk community finds itself in a food fight over the free, small-installation market, between upstart Fonality and the house of Asterisk itself, Digium. The two well-funded companies have been in a … Read More »
Magyar Telekom of Hungary, Slovak Telecom of Slovakia and Beijing Netcom of China are the latest telecoms to sign-up for Microsoft’s IPTV platform, bringing the total to 17 phone operators using Microsoft’s platform to deliver IPTV. One question: how much revenue has Microsoft brought in … Read More »
This will only be of interest to bloggers but today a new version of BlogJet was released (finally). Version 2.0 has a total interface overhaul and looks pretty good so I upgraded ($20) and am using it to post this item. I have been using … Read More »
Aaron Swartz, one of the co-founders of Reddit, a social news site, that was acquired by Wired News has left the company. He had previously expressed some dissatisfaction with the post merger life. Read More »
Om just passed me the most recent attempt to deflate the Second Life hype bubble, a Valleywag post which is actually an excerpt of a longer post by financial analyst Randolph Harrison. Essentially, Harrison argues the internal SL economy is a pyramid … Read More »
For a company that is having a tough time sticking to its new name, the mobile division of AT&T, aka Cingular Wireless, knows one thing for sure: 2007 is all about milking 3G wireless. Not that the company has an option. All you have to do … Read More »
At 1.2 kilograms with a 10.6-inch screen, I think it’s acceptable to call the Fujitsu P7230 an ‘ultraportable’; just don’t call it yours if you live outside of Taiwan, since that’s … Read More »
Each winter, the Mavericks big-wave surf contest is held in Half Moon Bay, California, with surfers and fans alike getting only a day’s notice when the swells are right. For years I’ve hoped I’d take the day off and drive a few miles down the coast … Read More »
It might not be enough yet to kick in the extra $1.5 billion for Niklas, but Skype’s Q4 2006 numbers were at least headed in the positive direction. The eBay subsidiary racked up big gains in minutes, registered users and revenues during the company’s … Read More »
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