In six weeks, we will be hosting our third annual NewTeeVee Live conference, and I am thrilled to announce that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will be speaking. Reed, who was one of the keynote speakers at last year’s event, is going to join me in an […] Read more »
Ladies and gentlemen, please meet our new editorial leader, Sebastian Rupley. You may already know him from his writings for PC Magazine (where he was the West Coast editor) or from his contributions to various other Ziff Davis publications. Or perhaps you’ve seen him cross swords […] Read more »
We have learned that Skype, the Internet telephony division of eBay that is in the process of being spun out and sold to a group of private equity investors, is close to signing a massive distribution deal with Lenovo, the Chinese company that makes PCs and […] Read more »
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Brightkite is ready to re-launch its service. Brightkite is the company that emerged after Limbo, a Burlingame, Calif.-based startup, merged with Denver-based Brightkite. The company offers a location-based social networking service that allows folks to broadcast their location and help find bars and restaurants. When we […] Read more »
Huawei Technologies has brought on telecom industry veteran Matt Bross as its chief technology officer, a position that up until now he’d held at British Telecom. With this move, it’s even more clear that Huawei wants to shed its image as an upstart Chinese maker of […] Read more »
The great AOL pre-spinout makeover continues! The New York-based company today announced that it is tapping Shashi Seth, formerly head of monetization for YouTube, as its senior vice president of Global Advertising Products, just weeks after it hired former Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse to head its […] Read more »
Updated: From his ostentatious display of wealth to his appearance on Fox’s “The Secret Millionaire,” one thing is for sure, if you live in Silicon Valley, you’ve heard of Gurbaksh Chahal, also known as “G.” Thanks to his antics, there are many tall tales about the […] Read more »
If there was any doubt that Apple’s Apps Store was a monster hit, today’s news should put that to rest. A mere four months after the company announced that a billion apps had been downloaded in the store, Apple today said that the number of downloads […] Read more »
Yesterday brought me a simple memo: live life. It didn’t came on a piece of paper. It was more like a series of disjointed scenes from a movie reel lying on the floor, waiting to be clipped together. It didn’t come as a revelation; instead it […] Read more »
A few months, ago when covering the launch of Google Voice, I wrote a post entitled: Meet Google, Your Phone Company. That headline sums up why Google’s voice service has drawn the ire of everyone from AT&T to Apple Today, Ma Bell asked the Federal Communications […] Read more »
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This just in: Applications that are mere gimmicks — think Lighter, iFart and IQ Test — lose the attention of smartphone owners after being just used a few times. Flurry Inc., a San Francisco-based startup that tracks the apps marketplace, recently conducted a study of more […] Read more »
Helsinki…you have a problem! (Actually it’s Espoo which has a problem, but Helsinki sounded better.) If you want to know why Nokia is in trouble, you need to look no further than its market share declines during the second quarter of 2009 in the company’s home […] Read more »
If, like our little company, you run your business using Google Apps, you’re playing with fire. For time and again, the company has proven that despite all its talk, its offerings are as unreliable as those of any other service provider. Today, once again, Google’s Gmail […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_fttx] Time Warner Cable today finally launched its super high-speed wideband consumer and business Internet service in New York. It’s been a long time coming, for as we’ve noted before, Time Warner Cable is a laggard when compared to other cable providers. The company has already […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_geolocation] At our Mobilize 09 conference, someone joked that Nokia was the Yahoo of the mobile world. I’m sure he meant that Nokia was bereft of direction and purpose. You can also extend that argument to Nokia’s acquisition strategy. The company has been buying up tiny […] Read more »
Google today is launching Google Sidewiki, which despite its name is actually a universal commenting system. The new service will be available via Google Toolbar. As the company said in an email explaining the feature: Sidewiki enables users who have installed Google Toolbar to contribute information […] Read more »
Skype, a division of eBay, is likely to announce tomorrow that the beta version of its Skype for SIP offering will interoperate with Cisco Systems’ Unified Communications 500 system. This follows closely on the heels of similar arrangements struck by Skype with Shoretel and SIPfoundry’s sipXecs […] Read more »
Intel Corp., a San Jose, Calif.-based chip company, today announced a range of low-power chips aimed at driving down the power requirements inside data centers. Among them were two new Xeon 3400 chips; a version that consumes only 45 watts will be released this year while […] Read more »
When I asked T-Mobile USA Chief Technology Officer Cole Brodman about his company’s 4G wireless plans a couple of weeks ago at our Mobilize 09 conference, he declined to elaborate. However, he did say that T-Mobile would follow the same technology curve as any typical GSM-based […] Read more »
China and India may be well on their way to dominating the voice world with billions of users, but when it comes to mobile data, U.S. companies are leading the charge, showing strong growth both in terms of overall traffic and revenue, according to data collected […] Read more »
China Mobile has become the first wireless carrier in the world to cross the 500 million subscriber-mark. The company has added 45.7 million new subscribers so far in 2009, and now has 502.9 million subscribers. (Photo by Oskay via Flickr.) Read more »
One of the good aspects of returning from a long trip is that you’re forced to catch up on a lot of stuff, which often entails reading emails, web sites and my favorite blogs in a sequential manner. And when you do that, you can sometimes […] Read more »
About two months ago, I became a happy Verizon customer. I signed up for the company’s unlimited calling and data plan. I got myself RIM’s brand new release, the BlackBerry Tour, a well-balanced cross between the Curve 2 and the Bold, and was hooked onto a […] Read more »
Josh Silverman, chief executive officer of Skype, wants to make sure that his Internet communications service works over the 3G networks of various phone companies including AT&T. He is going to be speaking tomorrow at an event organized by the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., extolling […] Read more »
If history is any guide, then recent actions by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom indicate that they wouldn’t hesitate killing off their own creation, unless eBay settles and pays them a lot of money. Here is why: Read more »
Earlier this week, Google announced its intentions to start an exchange for display advertising, an attempt to take on Yahoo and its healthy position in the display ad business. This is a fairly big broadside by Google, whose seriousness is reflected by the company’s recent job […] Read more »
Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have sued eBay, the company that acquired their Internet telephony startup and turned them into billionaires. The lawsuit was filed by their company Joltid, which controls the core technology that powers Skype, in U.S. district court in Northern California. […] Read more »
After relying on my svelte Macbook Air for a long time, yesterday I broke down and splurged on a new Macbook Pro. I wanted extra power, and more importantly, additional storage — mostly to store two seasons of “Californication,” albums from Thievery Corporation, Nitin Sawhney and […] Read more »
Looks like the economy, and with it the urge to splurge, is back — especially in Silicon Valley. After a long chill, the M&A market seems to be thawing — welcome news for entrepreneurs and their backers, who have been stymied by the lack of exits […] Read more »
This big societal move to a more connected life is causing carriers to spend a lot of money upgrading (or building) new networks, even the smallest cable companies in the farthest corners of America. And for Mike Hatfield, that is great news. Today he announced that his 3-year-old company, Cyan Optics, has signed up nearly 20 carriers and has raised at least $27 million in three rounds of funding. Read more »
What’s the point of being an investor in WiMAX operators if you can’t get them to build a network in your backyard? Clearwire says that it has completed its “innovation” network in Silicon Valley that covers more than 20 square miles in Santa Clara, Mountain View […] Read more »
Last month we added a new vertical, The New Net, to our GigaOM Pro subscription service. The vertical is tracking the new developments in the ever-evolving web. Today, we published a report that outlines some of the new job opportunities created by the New Net. Think […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_routers] IEEE has finally put the finishing touches on the much-awaited 802.11n high speed Wi-Fi standard, seven years after the process started. In the interim, a whole bunch of companies have released draft 802.11n equipment. Glen Fleishman puts it best when he says, “Somebody go put […] Read more »
Everyone — from app developers to startups such as AdMob to Google — are feeling bullish about the megabillion-dollar potential of mobile advertising. They shouldn’t count their chickens before they’re hatched, warns a study conducted by Chitika, a Marlborough, Mass.-based online advertising company. The study based […] Read more »
Friends and family of Rajeev Motwani, a Stanford University professor who was well-known for being an early investor in Google, are planning to host a memorial service followed by a concert on Sept. 25. Rajeev drowned in his swimming pool earlier this year. Just as he […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_voip] The piece-by-piece sale of fallen Canadian giant Nortel continues. Avaya, an enterprise telephony company that was carved out of telephony’s fallen star, Lucent Technologies, has bought Nortel’s PBX business for $900 million in cash, the two companies announced today. Initially Avaya had bid $475 million […] Read more »
Ask any BlackBerry owner about their device, and there’s a good chance they’ll sing the praises of the keyboard, the push email, and the ability to rapidly exchange text messages and IMs. Plus, a fairly decent Facebook client for the gadget integrates seamlessly with the BlackBerry […] Read more »
When you have sold over 100 million iPod Nanos, then as a company you need a new shtick to keep the momentum going. So Apple introduced a really skinny iPod Nano model that has a built-in video camera so that you can record videos and share […] Read more »
After the Titanic hit an iceberg and started to sink, some of its passengers sat on the deck, playing cards — giving birth to the phrase “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.” That’s precisely the image that came to mind when I heard that Nokia […] Read more »
Google may already have a monopoly on search, but that doesn’t mean the proposed search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo will be automatically greenlighted by federal officials. The Justice Department has expanded its review of the partnership agreed to by the search laggards, Bloomberg is reporting. […] Read more »
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