Here in the United States, if we manage to get our six megabit per second broadband connections working half the time at promised speeds, we feel happy, and perhaps lucky. In comparison, French are living la vida loca when it comes to broadband. And even that … 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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A couple of days ago, Brain Lam of Gizmodo played a cruel joke on the world, promising details of an iPhone, which he hinted would be launched on Monday, December 18th.
We considered it for a few seconds, and decided that it was unlikely, and
Okay Deepak Chopra has nothing to do with this, but if you are a virtual company, pay attention to what Anne has to say over on WWD. These are good rules of thumb, and we are going to implement them as we grow our GigaOM virtual … Read More »
Last week, Robert Scoble stopped by at the True Ventures office to do a little video recording of SplashCast. Somehow he roped me into talking about the blog, the company, and of course the new properties we are adding to the network. He caught me … Read More »
The Observer of London is reporting that Google might be working with HTC and mobile/telecom giant Orange to build a Google Mobile Phone, which could possibly have Google software inside the device, and would be able to do many of the web tasks … Read More »
In these days of Internet busy-ness, it is difficult to keep track of things. Over on Web Worker Daily Judi Sohn is talking about tools that help you take notes, and keep on top of things. I typically use Bare Bones Software’s
Windows Live Writer Updates Soon
By Om Malik
Dec. 16, 2006, 10:30pm PT
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Last week I ran into J.J. Allaire, and he showed off some of the work his team has done on Windows Live Writer, and it looks pretty good. The updates will come soon, and they are well worth a wait. Unfortunately, I cannot say more … Read More »
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Our team of writers and editors has curated some of the posts they think are worth a visit in case you missed them over the course of a very hectic week. Or simply revist them, and share your thoughts with us. We hope this is a … Read More »
We reported about yet-another-tremor at Skype, as Henry Gomez replaced Alex Kazim. (Official press release is here.) I had pointed out that there was more to the story than meets the eye. Despite all the happy shiny talk, there has been a lot of tension … Read More »
If you believe some of the forecasts that have started to show up in our inbox, then 2007 will prove to be a blockbuster year, up 29.6% from 2006 in terms of total subscribers. Pike & Fischer forecast that there will be 70 million broadband users by … Read More »
It’s not fiber, but it’s not copper either. Fixed Wireless (read certified WiMAX) is just the kind of leapfrog technology that makes sense in emerging telecom markets such as India and China. Certified WiMAX took a big step forward in India today, when local incumbent Bharat Sanchar … Read More »
Gizmodo is teasing the world and saying that iPhone will be released on Monday, and it is not what they expected. Oh god, not again… not that same story again …. I know this is my reaction to that one line teaser they put out. Just … Read More »
All you crazy iPod lovers, TiVo maniacs and BitTorrent freaks – take a minute, just a minute and observe a minute of silence and thank Al Shugart, the grand daddy of the disk drive industry. A colorful man with passion for Hawaiian shirts, loud … Read More »
More changes at Skype – The eBay makeover of Skype is complete. Henry Gomez, a former eBay executive and a veteran marketing professional is the new chief at Skype. He is CMO & Director of Operations for Skype but will be moving into the President’s office. … Read More »
Check your inboxes – there might be an address and job description change on Konstantin Guericke’s profile page. The co-founder of LinkedIn (and VP of marketing) has left the professional social network to take the helm at Jaxtr, a Palo Alto-based start-up, that … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 14, 2006, 8:00am PT
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Stumbling for good videos, Stumble Upon launches new video discovery engine. Online apps might be all that, as Bill G says, but they are not without their shortcomings. Ask WWD: Am I a Web Designer or a Web Developer? Midnight Inbox, wait for version … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 14, 2006, 7:50am PT
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So it is not Facebook or Metacafe, but it is still an acquisition. Yahoo Kimo, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo is buying Taiwanese weblogs and online photo sharing company, Wretch, according to Baku Today. Some newspapers are putting the total value of the deal … Read More »
Hey Wall Street, if you need help writing about iPhone, its features and projections, here is a cheat sheet of things you can mix-and-match for your next research report. And while you are at it, play some bingo too. Talking about the Apple iPhone has … Read More »
Skype, this morning announced a new pricing structure – unlimited SkypeOut calling for $30 an entire year – which may not be a bad idea if you have local US numbers and have to call someone from say Asia or Europe. The news has generated a … Read More »
Earlier this month, Qualcomm and LSI Logic went on a nano-based shopping spree. LSI spent $4 billion and snapped up Agere Systems, a company that shared DNA with AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs. Qualcomm, which is well known for its CDMA and W-CDMA technologies, snapped … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 12, 2006, 12:49pm PT
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Not exactly, but it has plans to help it service provider customers make ton of money off online video. Full report is here. Read More »
It’s time to grow up! And that’s exactly what we are doing over here at GigaOM – growing a little bigger and adding two new members to the core GigaOM team. I present to you some of the changes we are making, as we expand our … Read More »
Television on the mobile is slowly becoming a big business in the U.S. Don’t ask us why people want to watch even more television on a tiny screen, but some do — there are at least 1 million subscribers watching what Emeryville, Calif.-based MobiTV has … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 12, 2006, 7:15am PT
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For some odd reason I have never gotten around to writing about Sharpcast, a company that has gotten rave reviews from the traditional guys and the new new media barons. What Sharpcast does is sync all sorts of files between your phone and … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 12, 2006, 4:39am PT
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Our new blogger Judi Sohn has 11 tips for web workers to better manage their time. Read More »
uTorrent users are not too thrilled about BitTorrent buying their favorite torrent client, and they are speaking out about it. In a response to Bram Cohen’s message on the uTorrent forums, many expressed dismay, though some were optimistic about the future of … Read More »
Well isn’t that the 300 million dollar question? Last week there was word that the company was close to being sold. Techcrunch, this morning pointed out that it is not quite as smooth sale-ing. Liz and many of us have spent our entire morning … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 11, 2006, 3:24pm PT
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Takkle, a social network for high school athletes, launched today. Lots of video and photo features for the high school crowd, the one that walks around with cameras taking krazy photos. Read More »
VentureBeat unmasks BitGravity, a new video delivery network, started by Perry Wu, formerly of ComVentures, who is also starting a new incubator called Epiphany Partners. The company is currently raising funds, VentureBeat says. Norwest Venture Partners has seed funded Whatsbuzzing, an ecommerce meta search engine … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 11, 2006, 11:59am PT
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Dutch are going all digital when it comes to television. Good for them. Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 11, 2006, 7:35am PT
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WWD does a shoot out between Treo 700p and Treo 700w, and decides which one is a better deal. And just to spice things up, they add the Treo 680 to the mix. Read More »
By Pierre Khawand The Treo 700p was the first device I used in the 81-day-experiment. It was August 14, 2006, a nice day in San Farncisco when I headed to the Verizon store, and about 1 hour later, and $600 later, I was … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 10, 2006, 10:52pm PT
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Weeks after it sold its optical network component business to Cortina Systems, looks like Intel is about to shed another division. According to Doug Freedman of American Technology Research an unnamed private equity group is looking to combine the NOR flash businesses of Intel and … Read More »
Google is likely to announce a facelift to its Google Finance service soon, according to informed sources. The upgrade could come as soon as Monday, though as we all know product upgrades can get pushed out due to unforeseen reasons. Google Finance debuted to much fanfare back … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 10, 2006, 4:16pm PT
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You know you have been a victim of this at some point or the other. Or your iCal did not switch (or register) time zones properly. TZD is a new Internet disorder in the making, says Anne. Read More »
It has been a rainy, miserable weekend – the kind which makes you think about strange things like ‘which apple notebook was my favorite writing machine?’ The 12-inch Powerbook G4 despite the small screen was my favorite – great keyboard, enough screen space to focus entirely … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 10, 2006, 9:06am PT
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C/Net News.com reports that John Bombard, a Florida man who hacked Akamai back in 2004 has pled guilty and is facing upto two years in prison and a fine of upto $100,000 Read More »
The great thing about forecasts is that no one remembers the exact amount when the future finally rolls around. Perhaps that is why we take Parks Associates’ prediction that the annual US revenues from Internet video services will top $7 billion by 2010 with … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 10, 2006, 12:57am PT
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Fitch is rating the combined Alcatel-Lucent as “junk.” At least as far as borrowing from the markets is concerned. They are worried about integration risks, and other pesky problems such as too many suppliers, too few carriers. Ah the joy of consolidation! Read More »
There is no doubting the fact that we love the spam catching abilities of GMail and thanks to some help from our very smart friends and few tips and tricks, we have been using it to clean our massive email inflow. However, GMail’s UI is … Read More »
Google is offering click to call service to its Indian users. VoIP Inc. emailed us and let us know that they are partnering with Google on this new rollout. The click-to-call service is no different from a similar service that the search giant started offering … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 8, 2006, 10:00am PT
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Botswana Telecommunications Corporation is facing not so unique problem: folks are stealing its copper cables, and selling it for profit, and in the process playing havoc with its finances. Now that is a unique way of taking revenge on the phone company. The company has spent … Read More »
Technology’s big boys are taking the current wave of optimism in Silicon Valley and stock markets, and selling some of their holdings, perhaps in preparation for some serious shopping this season. Thomson Financial sent us their Insider report for the month of November, and pointed out … Read More »
If you live in the US, probably you haven’t noticed it. But fiber networks are growing in popularity, luring people with faster speeds, and now lower prices. PointTopic, the company that tracks the broadband markets says that fiber networks for consumer broadband access are now in … Read More »
Google is investing a major stake in a Chinese P2P startup called Xunlei (or Thunder). Xunlei is reported to have between 75 million to 100 million downloads of its software, and has raised previous funding from Morningside and IDG … Read More »
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