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HP-EDS: It’s About The Clouds, Baby!

Om Malik, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 12:25 AM PT Comments (28)

Updated: With the Microsoft-Yahoo battle fading from the dynamic random memories of our over stimulated brains, it is time to turn our attention to Hewlett-Packard’s $12 billion $13.9 billion deal to acquire EDS, a services giant in its own right. The news was announced this morning. HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25 [...]

Mobile Backhaul Equals Big Money Opportunity

Om Malik, Monday, May 12, 2008 at 10:41 PM PT Comments (3)

As noted earlier, wireless industry experts believe that mobile backhaul networks represent a big opportunity, mostly because of the proliferation of 3G and 4G networks and the easy availablity of iPhone-type devices is going to boost mobile data and video use.
Infonetics Research has issued a report that forecasts 4.4 billion mobile subscribers worldwide by 2011, [...]

Metrics: Fun Facts About iPhone

Om Malik, Monday, May 12, 2008 at 10:08 PM PT Comments (12)

Love it or hate it, one has to admit that Apple’s iPhone has been quite a game changer forcing the wireless industry to get off its duff and start innovating. I think a lot of people forget that iPhone is not just a pretty face and sleek curves. Instead it is a device that is [...]

Coming Soon, HBO on iTunes?

Om Malik, Monday, May 12, 2008 at 6:57 AM PT Comments (2)

I have had a cable TV-free life for almost over a year, though I did subscribed to it when my mother was visiting earlier this year when I was unwell. I have not missed it - though I do miss the thrill of watching the Daily Show with Jon Stewart live. The jokes somehow seem [...]

Rising Cost of Facebook Infrastructure; CTO Resigns

Om Malik, Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 9:16 PM PT Comments (8)

Last month, I wrote about Facebook’s insatiable hunger for hardware. Over the weekend, Spencer Ante of Business Week reported that Palo Alto-based social networking company had raised about $100 million from Triplepoint Capital, a venture lending operation. “It will be used entirely for servers,” Facebook Chief Financial Officer Gideon Yu told Business Week’s Ante. That [...]

Powerset Is Live

Om Malik, Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 9:00 PM PT Comments (11)

It has been a long time coming, but Powerset, a San Francisco-based contextual-semantic search engine has finally launched. I urge you to try it out, for this is quite an impressive search effort, despite the fact it is currently limited to searching Wikipedia along with some supplementary results from Metaweb’s Freebase. I think it has [...]

And Now a Blackberry Fund

Om Malik, Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 1:06 PM PT Comments (8)

What used to be the purview of corporate and business development departments is now being replaced by venture capital. A fund to foster Facebook apps, the iFund to jump start the iPhone app revolution or the rumored $150 million fund to give Blackberry apps a boost - the increasing number of platform funds doesn’t [...]

Off Topic: Now This Is Good Stuff

Om Malik, Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 12:45 PM PT Comments (21)


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