Archive for February, 2007

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Widgets Don’t Age Well

Liz Gannes, Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 7:37 AM PT Comments (8)

How far can you push a widget? YouTube video embeds, quite possibly the most successful widgets of all time, are seriously failing these days. Click on most any embedded clip, it seems, and you’ll get a “This video is no longer available” warning. Perhaps this is a fatal flaw of widgets; maybe they are best [...]

Online Video, lifting all boats

Om Malik, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 4:59 PM PT Comments (16)

YouTube, Joost and dozens of online video start-ups have done something many thought impossible: they have gotten the telecom executives excited. So excited that some of them are sponsoring Web 2.0 cocktail parties and cutting deals with little companies, hoping that Internet video will keep pushing the demand for bandwidth, and bring in some much [...]

Are Optical IPOs Good Investment?

Om Malik, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 4:00 PM PT Comments (0)

Infinera, one of the shining stars amongst new telecom start-ups has filed an S-1, hoping to go public sometime in the near future. It is not the only optical/networking related start-up looking to tap the public markets. BigBand Networks is another IPO candidate and there is talk of a Force 10 Networks IPO. (Read: Return [...]

Tonight: The GigaOM LaunchPad & Party

Om Malik, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 3:30 PM PT Comments (4)

Come and join the GigaTeam tonight! The GigaOM ETel Reception will kick off at 8pm at the San Francisco Airport Marriott, right after the GigaOM/ETel LaunchPad event
San Francisco Airport Marriott
1800 Old Bayshore Highway
Burlingame, CA 94010 USA

Reed Hundt’s new wireless ‘Frontier’

Paul Kapustka, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 2:33 PM PT Comments (8)

Former FCC chairman Reed Hundt is part of a team looking to build a new national public-safety wireless network, which they say would be combined with a open-access, commercial 4G offering that would offer wholesale services to carrier customers.
While similar in theory to the idea floated by Morgan O’Brien and Cyren Call, the Hundt operation, [...]

Can Icahn Help Motricity?

Katie Fehrenbacher, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 11:06 AM PT Comments (0)

Motricity, the Durham, North Carolina-based mobile content delivery company has a habit of raising more and more capital. The company, that competes with the likes of Qualcomm and VeriSign says it has raised another $50 million in a series H round (yeah, I said H) from investor Carl Icahn, to bring the company’s total to [...]

What’s New on GigaNET

Om Malik, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 10:52 AM PT Comments (0)

Web Worker Daily: Do you need to write a business plan?
NewTeeVee: Tracking Kyte.TV’s Personal Channels
NewTeeVee: Clipmarks adds video saving, sharing
GigaGamez: Sega brings classic games to mobies
The Daily: Another $7 million for iSkoot, Skype-mobilzer
GigaOmJobs: Lead Ruby software engineer for Telcoiq

Gizmo 3.0, Voice for all IMs

Om Malik, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 10:04 AM PT Comments (22)

JUST RELEASED: How do you make Gizmo Project better? Add free calling to other IM clients to the service. And that’s exactly what SIPphone, the company behind Gizmo Project, has done with the just-out-of-oven Gizmo Project 3.0 soft client. You can now make free calls to people that use Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live IM [...]

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