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Comcast Emails Subscribers About Bandwidth Caps

Om Malik, Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 6:59 PM PT Comments (7)

Updated: Comcast, the largest cable company in the world, has started to send emails to its subscribers letting them know about bandwidth limits the company is going to impose, starting Oct. 1, 2008. As it was reported earlier, the company had said that if people go over the 250 GB/month limit, they WILL be thrown [...]

SightSpeed VideoChat Comes to Linux, Netbooks

Om Malik, Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 6:16 PM PT Comments (3)

SightSpeed, a Berkeley, Calif.-based Internet video chat & conferencing company is going to announce a Linux-version of its video chat service sometime later this week. The Linux-app is going to help target the fast growing netbooks (others call them mini-notebooks) category.

Startup Marries Flash Video with P2P

Om Malik, Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 7:55 AM PT Comments (3)

PPLive, a Singapore Shanghai-based start-up that has a P2P video platform for distributing television in Asia has developed a way to accelerate and distribute Flash videos over peer-to-peer networks. The application called PPVA, sits in your task bar and when it detects a Flash video stream, it tries to find folks using the PPVA network who [...]

Video: Interview With Skype CEO — Where is Skype for the iPhone?

Om Malik, Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 4:05 PM PT Comments (52)

There is nothing I want more that a Skype client for the iPhone. And Skype CEO Josh Silverman acknowledges that Skype is very serious about the mobile phone opportunity. So where is it? Continue Reading.

Gnip More Than Ping Spelled Backwards

Om Malik, Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 11:46 AM PT Comments (7)

While hanging out at the TechCrunch50 conference, I ran into Eric Marcoullier, who recently launched his second startup, Gnip. We were supposed to talk about Gnip almost a month ago, but for some odd reason it didn’t happen. I was curious, because Eric and I got to know each other when he was visiting San [...]

What Will Happen to the “Age of…” Game Franchise?

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 10:11 PM PT Comments (12)

The past has a certain way of knocking on the present’s door. This week has been proof of that. First, Google turned 10 (or 13), sending me down memory lane back to when “Silicon Alley Insider” meant Fred Wilson and Scott Kurnit, not the blog by that name.
And now here comes news that Microsoft is [...]

What’s Making News This Morning

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 6:57 AM PT Comments (1)

I am still sifting through all the information I have gathered this week while attending a couple of conferences. This has taken my focus away from what’s in the news. The good news is that most of the team has been busy at work. You can follow our Twitter-style News Feed over on GigaOM Daily  [...]

MAXroam: 100,000 & Counting

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 9:51 PM PT Comments (13)

While most of the media attention at TechCrunch’s annual startup showcase in San Francisco was focused on the latest and shiniest startups, I ended up spending most of my day walking the demo pit, quietly checking out what was on display.
And after that I checked on the health of the alumni of 2007. I was [...]

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