Ericsson, the Swedish networking equipment maker, is buying Piscataway, N.J.-based telecom software provider Telcordia for $1.15 billion, the company announced this morning. Telcordia, which can trace it roots back to the old AT&T makes software for billing and operation support. Read More »
Bio:Om has more than 20 years’ experience as a journalist covering technology and business news. He was part of the founding team of Forbes.com as a senior editor. He then went on to become a senior writer at Red Herring during its glory days before joining Business 2.0 in March 2003, covering telecom, innovation and broadband. His contributions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and MIT Technology Review. Additionally, Om is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. Om blogs about baseball, life and music on his personal blog, Om.Co. Follow him on Twitter @om
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RIM, the company behind the iconic BlackBerry line of smartphones is rumored to be teaming up with YOU i Labs, an Ontario-based company that is known for having developed Sense-like user experience layer. What does that mean? An enhanced Blackberry UI for starters. Read More »
On May 30, 2006, we incorporated GigaOM, the company. Just 24 hours later, our investors, True Ventures, wired me the seed money to get going. They also presented me with a check in an envelope that had three simple words: Live the dream. Read More »
Apple’s head of design Jonny Ive has been public about the influence uber designer Dieter Rams on his work. Now the man behind many of German company Braun’s iconic design speaks about Ive, Steve Jobs, Apple and the importance of design in today’s world. Read More »
Apple, which at one time was hot and heavy with Facebook, is embracing Twitter and has integrated the San Francisco-based Twitter’s service into its iOS 5 mobile operating system. It has also built Twitter into some of its key applications such as Camera. Read More »
Kickstarter, the crowd funding platform, is changing how we create and consume things became famous thanks to Lunatik and TikTok (that made kits to turn the iPod Nano into a wrist watch). Here is a new project has a potential of being equally big. Read More »
In the U.S. if you want a 50 Mbps-to-a-100 Mbps connection, it is going to cost you plenty – about $105 with a triple play plan. On the other side of the planet, however, you can buy 1 Gbps broadband for $20 a month. Read More »
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Google launched the +1 button, a social signaling effort that at first blush seems to be all about publishers and page views. In reality it is about the future of web commerce, where Facebook is becoming even more influential, thanks to it’s near ubiquitous Like button. Read More »
Earlier today Nokia stock hit a 13-year-low. Despite what CEO Stephen Elop says, it is hard to reconcile the falling share price with what is arguably the hottest mobile market. The funny thing is that as a company they shouldn’t have been in this position. Read More »
After a brief hiatus, Om Says is back. In the latest edition, I look at the concept of good enough, the Praeto principle and how it applies to today’s company – regardless of its business focus — has to have a much higher metabolic rate. Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: Reed Hastings, chief executive officer and founder of online video company Netflix, has a pretty clear idea of what the future of video looks like. It needs high-speed fiber broadband, it involves sensors and it is all about click-and-watch on-demand Internet video. Read More »
100 Cameras in 1, a photo app created by Stuck in Customs, can now export photos directly to Instagram, the first app to do so. If more apps export to Instagram, the upstart photo network could become the center of the iPhone mobile photo experience. Read More »
Mature mobile markets like the U.S., Western Europe, Japan and South Korea continue to generate the big dollars for the mobile industry, but the future revenue growth is coming from new telecom economies. That’s resulting in changes in telecom hierarchies across the world. Read More »
AT&T on Wednesday announced that it will launch its initial LTE service in five markets – Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. GigaOM had an exclusive first look at the carrier’s LTE network that offered speeds of almost 30 Mbps down and 10 Mbps … Read More »
Reed Elsevier Ventures, the London-based venture arm of Reed Elsevier, one of the largest publishing companies, is leading a $6 million investment in the parent company behind GigaOM. The new capital will be used to accelerate our research business and expand our geographical footprint. Read More »
I am a big fan of fast growing crowd funding platform Kickstarter, arguably one of the most disruptive and innovative platforms to emerge for the creative community. Less a technology site, more a socio-cultural movement, Kickstarter is changing how we make things, how … Read More »
The Netherlands might be a tiny country, but when it comes to broadband, it is one that likes to make big moves. It had been quick to embrace fiber broadband. And now it is enacting a law that guarantees “net neutrality” for its citizens. Read More »
Fiber broadband is finally coming into its own, thanks to the growing number of fiber broadband deployments across the world. However, fiber broadband’s growing popularity is coming at the cost of DSL, one of the more widely deployed broadband technologies Read More »
The number of apps approved for Apple’s iOS platform has exceeded 500,000 apps. Currently, the Apple App Store has 400,000 apps for download. Nearly 36 percent of all apps are free. The average paid app costs $3.64. It would cost $891,982.24 to download all apps. Read More »
Thanks to bigger selection, convenient return policy and addition of digital goods, Amazon is quickly sucking up more of our spending dollars. No it is not just me talking — data shows a sharp jump in per account spending and it is only the beginning. Bezos … Read More »
Twitter for Mac may have all the attention lately, but it pales in comparison with the new mobile web version of Twitter. The company recently released the new version that is is simply wonderful and a great showcase for the potential of HTML5 technologies. Read More »
Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft recently gave a commencement speech at the University of Southern California. I thought this piece of advice was particularly useful, especially for aspiring entrepreneurs. I would like you to think about three things that I’ve had a chance to … Read More »
If you are a T-Mobile subscriber and use one of the mobile phones that support UMA, now all your calls made over the Wi-Fi are free. Earlier, all WiFi-based calls counted towards your minute plan. This is a great move for T-Mobile, which is bleeding customers. Read More »
Alan Meckler, who owned Internet.com and Jupiter Media has done a great job of picking up high-quality, niche B2B properties. He started off with MediaBistro and soon followed up with All Facebook (part of Social Times) and he has now snapped up the Inside Network. Read More »
Singapore topped the Networked Society City Index, created by Ericsson and consulting firm Arthur D. Little. The NSCI Index looks at how 25 major cities are using technologies to grow and manage themselves. Stockholm, Seoul, London and Paris make up the top five. Read More »
Unless media corporations stop defining themselves by their products, they are going to be unable to navigate the big shift that is changing the rules of the game — what I call the “democratization of distribution.” Read More »
If one thing was expected from Microsoft paying $8.5 billion for Skype, it was the criticism of the deal. I spoke with Steve Ballmer and Tony Bates about the deal and what comes next. Here are my notes from that conversation. Read More »
eBay can finally breathe a sigh of relief about its ill-fated Skype acquisition, now that Microsoft has bought the company for $8.5 billion. A back of the envelope calculation shows that eBay might have made a 40 percent profit on its Skype adventure. Here’s how. Read More »
There may be many questions about Microsoft’s decision to buy Skype, but one thing is for sure: It can take video conferencing video calling to a whole different level, thanks to Kinect. If you watch these videos, you can easily imagine the future of video … Read More »
Microsoft is close to finalizing a deal to buy Skype for $8.5 billion. The Wall Street Journal confirmed the news after we had first reported the news yesterday. The deal is especially good for Microsoft’s partners including Nokia and Facebook. Read More »
People familiar with Skype indicate that some kind of news is forthcoming later this week, perhaps as soon as Monday. It is also rumored that Microsoft is a late entrant and is said to be in talks with Skype, the Internet telephony company. Read More »
Joe Hewitt who built the initial version of Facebook for the iPhone, left the social networking company today. Hewitt, who has had incredible influence over Facebook’s mobile success, left to work on his own focusing on tools for developers and designers. He joined Facebook in 2007. … Read More »
It’s not really a surprise that we’re beginning to hear more and more about “incubators.” If you’ve been around the block as many times as I have, you may remember the sharp increase in such experiments about a decade ago. Read More »
Looks like Skype is in play, again. Unlike last time, both the suitors have good business reasons. Between Google and Facebook, the social networking giant makes perfect sense. We actually suggested this deal six months ago. Question is: why does Skype want to sell? Read More »
For a very long time, technology industry’s future has been determined by the capabilities of tech’s building blocks – chips, memory, storage and networks. With the emergence of social and mobile, it seems technology’s future will be defined by we the people. Read More »
Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook’s vice president of Technical Operations, has been the Palo Alto-based web giant’s public face when it comes to all things infrastructure. And today he announced that he would leave the company at the end of the summer. Read More »
We have only just taken first steps towards what is real (online) social commerce. Ex-Googler and current Facebook product manager articulates this in a must-read presentation, How Your Customers’ Social Circles Influence What They Buy, What They Do and Where They Go. Take a look. Read More »
AT&T is looking to build a private cloud using the open source cloud platform known as the Open Stack. Josh Kleinpeter, a software engineer with AT&T Interactive mentioned AT&T’s plans during a panel discussion at the Open Stack Summit. Read More »
No it ain’t true. Media these days are funny. Soon I’ll be reading that Spotify is launching a space rocket.
Daniel Ek, co-founder, Spotify in a tweet this morning categorically denied that his company has any negotiations underway to stream movies in addition to music, as reported
Thanks to growing demand for new Internet applications such as Netflix, broadband companies across the board are finding new growth opportunities. Time Warner Cable is no different and today reported surprisingly higher additions to its high-speed internet subscribers. And the trend is likely to continue. Read More »
I don’t need every customer. I’m primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anything? Marco Arment on his decision to discontinue … Read More »
What will be the name of Apple’s cloud-based music service? No one knows. However, a tipster of mine says that it could be iCloud, indicating rumors that Apple has just purchased the iCloud.com domain name from Seattle-based desktop-as-a-service company, Xcerion. Read More »
Broadband continues to spread worldwide and the high-speed internet movement is going wireless, according to data collected by Akamai for its latest State of the Internet report. Here are glimpses of the report, including fastest cities in the world as well as some U.S. stats. Read More »
Today, it is increasingly pervasive in our society to have an obsession with metrics and numbers without context. And as modern technology has started to get more complex, these metrics and other numbers have become a crutch for marketing and spin. Read More »
With over 650,000 apps seeking our attention, it is not an easy task for apps to get our attention. In order to be successful and stand out, the mobile apps have to have little friction and in the process overcome smartphone & mobile web’s three limitations. … Read More »
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