Make no mistake about it: The trustbusters are pretty serious about dropping the hammer on Silicon Valley in order to break up the region’s web of cozy relationships, as last month’s Wired story make clear. They are looking especially hard at Google, which has been increasingly […] Read more »
Thanks to Apple’s fast-selling iPhone, 3G-enabled BlackBerry devices and more recently, Google phones, the U.S. will overtake Japan as the country with the largest number of 3G users in the world in 2011. Of course, that lead will be temporary because by then China (and by […] Read more »
Julius Genachowski, in his new role as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, hopes to revive the telecom and broadband sectors by focusing on “consumers, competition and innovation.” And he wants to “make sure that the FCC’s processes are as participatory as they can possibly be.” Read more »
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It has been a busy summer at the GigaOM offices here in San Francisco. Thanks to some sleepless nights on the part of our technology team, we’ve rolled out some changes aimed at improving our readers’ experience. The first of these was the GigaOM Pulse, which […] Read more »
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from the board of Apple. “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest,” Steve jobs said in a company statement. The way I see it, Jobs showed him the door. Read more »
The booming sales of smartphones such as the iPhone and the growing popularity of mobile app stores has prompted a renaissance in the mobile industry and of course a big surge in startup activity. It’s reflected in the growing investments in mobile companies based in the […] Read more »
Last week’s Google Voice fiasco, which has led to a lot of fear and loathing — in the iPhone developer community, the blog community and in the media — has finally reached a point that the Federal Communications Commission is looking to investigate the matter. In […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_4G] WiMAX is only now getting some traction in the U.S., thanks to rollouts by Clearwire, but overseas the wireless broadband technology is actually growing at a rapid clip. According to Infonetics, a market research company, WiMAX is gaining traction in India, Russia and Brazil, primarily […] Read more »
Earlier this morning, I got a chance to catch up with Dr. Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola, soon after his company reported earnings (they met Wall Street’s modest expectations) to talk about everything from the state of the mobile market to prospects for Motorola. I will […] Read more »
The fact that Google Voice apps have been banished by Apple from its App Store is a bad decision that has taken on gigantic proportions, and is drawing outrage and disgust from app developers. Many are thinking about giving up on the iPhone platform altogether. But […] Read more »
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If Facebook is worth upwards of $5 billion, then how much do you think Twitter, the San Francisco-based micro messaging startup, is worth? Somewhere in between $441 million and $589 million, if you believe NeXt Up Research, the firm founded by veteran financial analyst, Michael Moe. […] Read more »
Every so often, our readers write to us wondering how they can get some insight into how our team works. Instead of putting up videos or photos, we decided that it would be pretty cool to make you all part of our daily workflow. I sat […] Read more »
Funny how time flies — it’s already coming up on the first-year anniversary of our Mobilize conference. After a sell-out event last year, we are going to be hosting Mobilize 09 on Sept. 10 here in San Francisco. The event, which has attracted some of the […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_fttx] Updated: Comcast, the nation’s largest cable-based broadband service provider , is expanding its DOCSIS 3.0 super-high-speed (I like to call it Ultraband) network to San Francisco’s East Bay and North Bay areas. Comcast had already rolled out the service in San Francisco and on the […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_voip] Updated: This morning’s tempest in the teapot involves Google Voice apps being rejected by Apple’s iPhone store. iPhone App Developer Sean Kovacs says his GV mobile app was pulled and since then several others have been rejected by Apple as well. Even Google’s official app […] Read more »
In December 2005, Google bought 5 percent of AOL, a division of Time Warner, for about $1 billion. The impetus of the deal was to keep AOL and its traffic out of the reach of Microsoft and Yahoo. Of course, the two companies tried to spin […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_routers] Verizon said today that it’s inked a partnership with Wi-Fi hotspot service provider Boingo Wireless that will allow its broadband customers to use Boingo hotspots across the country, an agreement that was first reported by The Wall Street Journal back in May. The New York-based […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_social_networking] Every so often a new technology comes along, promising to revolutionize the world of communications. And in the end, it prays at the altar of email. Despite being messy and unstructured, email, which will turn 50 in a couple of years, remains the hub of […] Read more »
Over the last few years, every time I have taken a vacation, I have taken along my Macbook, thinking, well, you never know when you might need to check flight schedules or emails or something else. Given the nature of my profession, it has taken a […] Read more »
Ericsson says it has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the parts of the Carrier Networks division of Nortel relating to CDMA and LTE technology in North America for an estimated price of about $1.13 billion. Ericsson beat out other bidders Nokia Siemens Networks […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_lte] It’s been sad, watching the proverbial vultures that have been circling overhead during the past few months, waiting to swoop in and feast off the carcass of a once-exalted company called Nortel. But after being run by a parade of incompetents who set it on […] Read more »
[qi:___3g] AT&T said yesterday that it added 1.4 million new subscribers during the second quarter of 2009, bringing its total number of subscribers to 79.6 million. Today, Verizon Wireless announced that it had 1.1 million net customer additions in the most recent 3-month period, taking its […] Read more »
It used to be that large corporations were the biggest boosters of new and cool technologies; more recently the consumer has been driving technology trends. But with the timing of an economic recovery still uncertain and VC dollars hard to come by, it may be the […] Read more »
Earlier this morning, AT&T announced that it activated 2.4 million new iPhones during the second quarter ending June 30, 2009 — what the company called its “best-ever total” since it exclusively started Apple’s hot new device two years ago. Thanks to the brand-new iPhone 3G S […] Read more »
Amazon said this afternoon it’s agreed to buy specialty shoe e-tailer Zappos for $807 million in cash and stock. It’s a smart move as it will allow Amazon to become even more synonymous with e-commerce. Funnily enough, it was just a few weeks ago that I […] Read more »
Major League Baseball has Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez — intensely competitive players who were close friends until one of them dissed the other in the media. And as luck (also known as a shipload of Steinbucks) would have it, the two ended up on the […] Read more »
Updated: Yahoo has confirmed that it is indeed buying Xoopit. Yahoo, the No. 1 email company, is rumored to be buying San Francisco-based startup Xoopit for about $20 million. While the Wall Street Journal says that negotiations are continuing, Kara Swisher says it’s a done deal. […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_iphone] We all know that in a few years, Long Term Evolution (LTE), the 4G wireless broadband technology being embraced by mobile carriers across the world, is going to rule the airwaves, becoming an important way for us to connect to the Internet. But for now, […] Read more »
In case you were wondering, I took two days off from the connected world to refresh my brain, deal with company-related stuff and actually plan the direction my writing needs to take over the next few months. I am back on the job starting tomorrow. I […] Read more »
A few days ago I met up with T-Mobile USA’s chief technology officer, Cole Brodman, at the launch of the new Google Phone, the MyTouch. (Read my interview with Cole.) After the panel discussion, the two of us got chatting about why carriers love social networking […] Read more »
[qi:050] Nokia, the corporate parent of Symbian, has sold its Symbian Professional Services business to consulting giant Accenture, the company said today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but I imagine its value was trivial, given that Symbian is desperately trying to make itself over […] Read more »
Nokia today posted a 66 percent plunge in second-quarter earnings and a 25 percent drop in sales, and said it’s no longer expecting its market share this year to increase over 2008, sending its shares to close lower by 14 percent. And they’ve lost more than half their value over the past 12 months. Why? Nokia is under siege from its own legacy. The company has become so comfortable with its position as the No. 1 handset maker that it’s failed to realize that the ground is shifting under its feet. Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_100g] We are big believers in ultra-broadband, which is why we’ve been paying such close attention to the race to the 100 GB future, which includes optical networking breakthroughs, the 100 GB Ethernet and the need for network virtualization. The explosion of online video and the […] Read more »
Days after news broke that BusinessWeek was up for sale, there is word that Jim Spanfeller, president and CEO of Forbes.com might be is leaving the company. I tweeted this last night, but since then a few others have reported on the news as well. Stacey […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_geolocation] Google yesterday evening launched My Location for iPhone 3.0, which returns search results relevant to a user’s current location. The feature, which only works in conjunction with the Safari browser, helps to narrow down results when looking for stuff on the go. Previously, this was […] Read more »
Earlier today, the guys from Skyhook Wireless sent me their latest location-aware applications report. The first thing I noticed was a sharp decline in the number of location-aware apps during the months of May and June 2009. Why? Because of something known as Bulk Apps — […] Read more »
[qi:gigaom_icon_voip] Can Google be your phone company? The answer is yes. I came to that conclusion after I met with Vincent Paquet, co-founder of GrandCentral (a company acquired by Google) and now a member of the Google Voice team. Earlier today he stopped by our office […] Read more »
Much like every other aspect of our lives, Moore’s Law, the growing availability of broadband — both at home and on our mobile phones — and new web technologies are disrupting the video game industry. In his new GigaOM Pro report,”Virtual Worlds: Trends & Opportunities,” contributing […] Read more »
By now, you all must have read about the next version of Microsoft Office 10. You’ve also likely heard about the web version of Microsoft Office. The problem is that if you want to compare the Office Web with Google Apps or Zoho, there’s little chance […] Read more »
A few months ago, 24/7 Wall Street, a New York-based blog, suggested that the sun was about to set on BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fortune — and that BusinessWeek would be the first to go. Well, they were right. McGraw-Hill Cos., the parent company of S&P and […] Read more »
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