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Video Makes Skype 4.0 Grow Bigger, Wider

Om Malik, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM PT Comments (10)

Updated: Skype, the peer-to-peer VoIP provider and a division of eBay, wants to grow up – both as a company and as a communications utility. To that end, it is launching the beta version of its latest Skype client software.
Josh Silverman, the company’s new CEO, acknowledged that from a usability standpoint, things hadn’t changed much, [...]

Structure 08 Tickets: Almost Sold Out

Om Malik, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM PT Comments (4)

It’s time to exhale: Our first Structure 08 conference, slated to be held on June 25th in San Francisco, is almost sold out. With a week to go we have just 25 tickets left, and I have to tell you that despite the long sleepless nights ahead, I’m pretty jazzed about the event.
Amongst ticket buyers, [...]

Hulu Video Embeds Disabled? Or Outage?

Om Malik, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 9:29 AM PT Comments (0)

Updated: Hulu says that they are doing server maintenance. The timing of it is seriously stupid - 9 am PST or 12 PM EST - not exactly off hours for web users. Some one should be spanked for the unfortunate timing of this “maintenance.”

Wireless Philadelphia: Back From the Dead

Om Malik, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 7:50 AM PT Comments (0)

Remember the much-ballyhooed Wireless Philadelphia MuniFi networking effort that was going to be the cornerstone of a new EarthLink? The very same network that the Atlanta-based ISP had to abandon because it found itself sinking in financial quicksand? Many of us thought that the network that cost $17 million to build was dead.
EarthLink offered to give away [...]

A Personal Note: Pause & Read

Om Malik, Monday, June 16, 2008 at 5:11 PM PT Comments (23)

The passing of Tim Russert, a man I greatly admired, came as the result of a massive heart attack, an event that cannot be predicted. Having suffered a heart attack myself earlier this year, I know this firsthand — the heart is no match for the high-stress, multitasking lives that so many of us lead. [...]

Big Growth for the Internet Ahead, Cisco Says

Om Malik, Monday, June 16, 2008 at 8:37 AM PT Comments (33)

Cisco predicts that traffic on the world’s networks will increase 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years. Given the rise in usage by new economies around the world, it’s a forecast that makes sense. Continue Reading.

The Cloud Opens Up

Om Malik, Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 11:45 AM PT Comments (1)

We are only ten days away from Structure’08, our web infrastructure conference. As part of our preparation for this event, our team of reporters & bloggers is finding new & interesting open source projects that are tackling various aspects of Cloud Computing, a concept popularized by Amazon through its web services efforts. Here is a [...]

AT&T Considering Metered Broadband

Om Malik, Friday, June 13, 2008 at 3:46 PM PT Comments (17)

Bend Broadband, Comcast, Time Warner Cable — they’re all considering or going the route of the tiered (aka metered) broadband. Now add AT&T to that list, according to a report in CED magazine.
“A form of usage-based pricing for those customers who have abnormally high usage patterns is inevitable,” according to an AT&T spokesman, though the [...]

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