Verizon has come out against Nortel selling its enterprise telephony business to Avaya, which has offered about $475 million for it, because neither the seller nor the buyer want to take on the contracts to service the equipment currently installed in U.S. government and business offices. […] Read more »
Skype’s new owners should be aware of one small thing: They are paying $2 billion for a company that, despite having more than 400 million subscribers, doesn’t know how to leverage that platform. Why? Because it doesn’t understand developers. It never has. We have consistently pointed […] Read more »
Twitter just announced modified terms of service that show the company has started to think about potential business models. The modified terms of service deal with advertising, APIs and the ownership of data. These changes mean that Twitter might offer inline contextual advertising and charge for […] Read more »
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Almost a year ago, I predicted that Facebook Connect — essentially a single web identity that allows users to sign into sites that support Connect — would be the most important reason why Facebook would dominate the world of social networks. And that is precisely what […] Read more »
Evernote, the company that makes one of my favorite applications, has raised an additional $2 million in its second round of funding from DoCoMo Capital. The round, which includes investment from Troika Dialog of Russia, now stands at $6.5 million and will be used for global […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_4G] AT&T today laid out its plans for upgrading its 3G network to the High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 technology that allows downloads of up to 7.2 Mbps. It will start in six cities — Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Miami — and […] Read more »
I hope all of you (in the U.S.) had a nice, long Labor Day weekend. I spent most of it preparing for our Mobilize 09 conference, which will be held this Thursday, Sept. 10, here in San Francisco. Keynotes will be delivered by Cole Brodman, CTO […] Read more »
If there was any lingering doubt that broadband was the new platform for technology innovation, new data out today from trade group The Broadband Forum should put it to rest for good. The number of broadband subscribers around the world grew to 445 million in the […] Read more »
Brad Garlinghouse, formerly a senior vice president at Yahoo, is joining AOL as its president of Internet and Mobile Communications, which includes AOL’s e-mail and instant messaging. He will be heading up AOL’s Silicon Valley operations in Mountain View and will be responsible for AOL Ventures […] Read more »
NTT DoCoMo is rumored to be launching a mobile virtual network in the U.S. that will ride either T-Mobile or AT&T’s wireless network. The company wants to launch this to push its iMode mobile Internet service in the U.S. For me, that is too little, too […] Read more »
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I was swapping tweets yesterday with Michael Gartenberg, a respected gadget analyst who attended Nokia World, the Nokia-sponsored lovefest held this week in Stuttgart, Germany, and it was clear he was feeling underwhelmed. Understandably so. I didn’t have to fly to Germany to figure out that […] Read more »
The number of new broadband subscribers continues to slow in the U.S., according to data gathered by UBS Research, driven primarily by market saturation. The Wall Street firm estimates that there are 67 million broadband subscribers in the U.S., or roughly 60 percent of the nation’s […] Read more »
One of the great things about blogging is that you can pick one aspect of an argument — any aspect at all — and comment on it. Apparently Jason Fried of 37 Signals didn’t agree with something I wrote about the freemium model. Using it as […] Read more »
Sprint, the beleaguered mobile carrier, today announced that it will start selling HTC Hero, a touchscreen phone based on Google’s Android OS, on Oct. 11 for $179. The availability of this device only underscores how badly Sprint needs a fast-selling smartphone model. Sprint had been betting […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_voip] Earlier this week, a group of investors led by Silverlake Partners, a Silicon Valley-based private equity group, acquired 65 percent ownership in Internet telephony company Skype for about $1.9 billion in cash and $125 million in debt. The current owner, eBay, retained 35 percent of […] Read more »
The popularity of new 3G devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry 3G has increased the use of data, putting the backend networks under strain. And from that perspective, today’s 3G networks are like glittering skyscrapers built on a foundation of matchsticks. Read more »
Word just came in — the deal is official. eBay is selling Skype in a deal that values the Internet calling service at $2.75 billion. eBay will get $1.9 billion in cash, a $125 million note, and will give up 65 percent of the company to […] Read more »
MySpace, meet the new new MySpace. It’s called Twitter. According to Hitwise, a web traffic intelligence company, Twitter has overtaken MySpace in the UK. In August, Twitter.com became the 27th most-visited web site in the UK, one position ahead of MySpace. The Twitter service itself must […] Read more »
According to the Chaos Theory, in a giant system that has lots of interconnections, even the smallest action can have a massive impact. It’s more simply described by the butterfly effect. This theory has taken its toll on the software business, thanks to the rise of […] Read more »
If you’re an eBay shareholder, it’s time for you to get mad about the sheer incompetency of the management. First they paid top dollar for Skype back in 2005, making billionaires out of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. And, now instead of waiting for an opportune […] Read more »
Freemium -– a business model that works by offering basic services for free but charging for premium features — is being viewed as the new way to do business in startup land. It has its champions and its detractors. But if you want to make it work for your startup, here are some tips. Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_google-android] In this new mobile platform world, app developers are the new kingmakers. Not a day goes by when someone doesn’t introduce their own app store, but the question of whether or not they’ll actually be able to profit from their efforts remains. (See our related […] Read more »
Take away India’s mobile miracle and you soon realize how much the country lags in terms of PC penetration and broadband adoption. According to recently released data from the Indian government, the total broadband subscriber base rose to 6.8 million in July from 6.62 million in […] Read more »
AdMob, a San Mateo, Calif.-based mobile advertising company, yesterday released a report that indicated Apple’s iPhone App Store generates about $200 million a month, or a run rate of some $2.4 billion a year. My post elicited some strong reactions from app developers and many commenters […] Read more »
Andy Rubin, the software guru who helped create Google’s Android operating system, is going to join me for a fireside chat at Mobilize 09, our mobile Internet conference being held on Sept. 10 in San Francisco. Rubin has helped shape Google’s mobile OS strategy overall and […] Read more »
Despite the doubts raised by the backers of Long Term Evolution, such as Ericsson Chief Technology Officer Hakan Eriksson, as to whether or not WiMAX is truly 4G, the technology’s champions believe it has a future. Today their belief can be backed by numbers. According to […] Read more »
If I were to tell you that Apple’s app economy was worth more than $2.5 $2.4 billion a year, you would laugh hysterically, shake your head and walk out of the room, yes? Surf on over to some other web site? But here I am telling […] Read more »
Yahoo is now using Google search in the UK. Confused? So was I, when I first read this post on Connected Internet. After all, didn’t Yahoo just sign a comprehensive search deal with Microsoft? Actually Google has replaced Yahoo search on BT Yahoo, an online portal […] Read more »
Motorola sent out an invite (with an Android logo) to members of the media asking them to RSVP for a mystery event on Sept. 10, 2009, the same day we are hosting our Mobilize 09: The Mobile Internet conference. Read more »
[qi:105] Hey Comcast, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has two words for you: network neutrality. Actually he has more than two words. In an interview with TheHill.com, Chairman Genachowski said, “One thing I would say so that there is no confusion out there is that […] Read more »
A price hike is coming for some, if not all, Skype customers. The company has quietly made it known on its web site that it will be increasing its connection fees to 7.9 cents from 3.9 cents per call. When a reader alerted us to the […] Read more »
It doesn’t matter how brilliant your mouse trap is if it doesn’t catch any mice. Same goes for technologies. Witness femtocells, those small, in-premise devices that help with spotty cell phone coverage by piggybacking on wired broadband connections. According to The Wall Street Journal, femtocells aren’t […] Read more »
Sprint’s $483 million purchase of prepaid phone services giant, Virgin USA, has been approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The deal still needs some minor clearances from the Federal Communications Commission. The megamillion-dollar purchase highlights the importance of the prepaid and budget segments of the […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_4G] WiMAX, the wireless broadband technology that is vying with Long Term Evolution to become the standard for the next generation of higher-speed wireless networks, draws either delight or derision, depending on whom you ask — its champions or detractors. Read more »
There are a lot of brave souls out there making mobile browsers, hoping to gain traction with the phone makers. But most of them are fighting a losing battle, for the mobile browser war is increasingly being fought between two camps — the Webkit-based browsers camp, […] Read more »
Right in front of our eyes, the web (and by extension, the Internet) is changing — specifically, the rise of social networking and the real-time web are changing the way information on the Internet is created and consumed. Indeed, the ability to disperse information through social […] Read more »
Looks like the much talked about Mac OS X, version 10.6, code-named Snow Leopard, will make its debut Friday, Aug. 28. It is a faster, smaller and supposedly smarter OS. OK, not smarter, but it looks like a worthy upgrade. Snow Leopard is half the size […] Read more »
Wi-Fi has become an indispensable part of our daily lives — at least for those of us who live in the United States, Decipher reported in a survey conducted on behalf of Devicescape, a San Bruno, Calif., networking software maker, San Jose, Calif.-based chipmaker Intel, and […] Read more »
Chalk up that headline as a hat tip to one of my favorite artists, Tracy Chapman, who is performing in San Francisco this weekend. In the slipstream of my post from earlier this month, The Evolution of Blogging, several folks have come up with their own […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_mobile] Wow…talk about a transformative and disruptive technology that has changed the way we live on a global scale. According to trade group 3G Americas, there will soon be 4 billion GSM mobile connections around the planet. We are a stone’s throw away from that milestone. […] Read more »
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