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Is Second Life a Ponzi Scheme or a sham economy? Wagner James Au explains. Continue »

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 %.) Continue »

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. Continue »

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 from IPTV vs what it has spent? Continue »

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. Continue »

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. Continue »

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 blowout quarter.
One big important jump was an addition of 400 million SkypeOut minutes from the previous quarter. Continue »

Maybe more people signed up for SkypeOut than we thought? Investors respond to the good news by bumping the share price up 15 percent, to $33.05, in after-hours trading. Continue »