Archive for March, 2007

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Microsoft’s ZenZui for Mobile Widgets

Katie Fehrenbacher, Monday, March 26, 2007 at 11:03 PM PT Comments (1)

CTIA 2007: From Alltel’s Celltop to Nokia’s WidSets, mobile widgets are becoming increasingly popular, and becoming a preferred way to consume web services on handheld devices. ZenZui is the latest to jump onto the bandwagon. The startup is being officially spun out of Microsoft as a separate company and is coming out stealth mode this [...]

VoIP patent mess to get messier

Om Malik, Monday, March 26, 2007 at 7:32 PM PT Comments (12)

The telecom death match between Vonage (VG) and Verizon (VZ) is being played on in a small arena enclosed by a mesh wire of patents. And things could get quite bloody in months to come. Ed Pennington, head of patent practice for Bingham McCutchen, a Washington DC law firm told Telephony that a whole bunch [...]

Netflix to Redmond, Stat

Liz Gannes, Monday, March 26, 2007 at 4:35 PM PT Comments (1)

Reed Hastings is joining the Microsoft board. We assume Microsoft won’t be adopting Hastings’ vacation policy (also in the news today), but you never know.

Sprint’s Lil WiMAX Details

Katie Fehrenbacher, Monday, March 26, 2007 at 4:30 PM PT Comments (4)

CTIA 2007: If Sprint’s mobile WiMAX network weren’t the first of its size and kind in the U.S., we wouldn’t be following its future rollout details like paparazzi mob Britney Spears. But it is, so we will.
Sprint named a dozen or so more markets for its WiMAX rollout and the chosen vendors for each [...]

Can Xobni cure Outlook’s ills?

Om Malik, Monday, March 26, 2007 at 2:26 PM PT Comments (10)

Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and formerly of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has made a fortune out of betting on companies that tackle really big problems. Some of his bets – Juniper Networks, for instance – have paid off handsomely. Others have been marginally successful, at least from a [...]

Will video kill the Google star?

Robert Young, Monday, March 26, 2007 at 12:41 PM PT Comments (0)

When one is asked about Google’s incredible success to date, and what they did so right, the obvious answer will likely involve an explanation of the brilliant technologies that make up PageRank and Adwords. But if one looks under the hood, there’s also a not-so-obvious reason that played an equally critical role in Google’s success: [...]

AT&T Gives Napster Away for “Free”

Katie Fehrenbacher, Monday, March 26, 2007 at 11:52 AM PT Comments (3)

We already knew that AT&T had a deal in place with Napster for the company’s mobile music service. Now the companies are adding some promotional details of the plan. AT&T’s broadband and wireless customers can access Napster for free for a year when they agree to one of the various service plans — which aren’t [...]

Why is FCC quiet on AT&T’s Call-Blocking?

Paul Kapustka, Monday, March 26, 2007 at 11:00 AM PT Comments (6)

Is AT&T’s decision to block some of its customers’ wireless calls a violation of the so-called net neutrality principles? If it is, the FCC isn’t saying so yet, at least not publicly. While both sides of the “free-calling” debate expect the commission to weigh in at some point, neither has filed a formal statement there, [...]

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