Apple today released its much awaited Mac OSX Lion operating system and upgrades to Mac Mini, Macbook Air and a new Thunderbolt I/O-based display. This is a much awaited announcement and is surely going to fuel Apple’s already red-hot business. Read More »
Bio:Om has more than 20 years’ experience as a journalist covering technology and business news. He was part of the founding team of Forbes.com as a senior editor. He then went on to become a senior writer at Red Herring during its glory days before joining Business 2.0 in March 2003, covering telecom, innovation and broadband. His contributions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and MIT Technology Review. Additionally, Om is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. Om blogs about baseball, life and music on his personal blog, Om.Co. Follow him on Twitter @om
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Apple just reported the results for its fiscal third quarter 2011 that ended on June 25, 2011. It was a blow out quarter led primarily by the booming demand for iPhones, iPads and Macs. Here is a quick breakdown of numbers for the quarter. Read More »
Startup founders and company leaders are the ones who define its culture. By being open and transparent, they build a company with a healthy and a positive outlook. On the flip side, culture of fear and hiding erodes trust and proves to be counterproductive. Read More »
There are so many words on the Internet, but very few are worth reading on a Sunday morning, when you could be out for brunch with friends or simply lazing around in bed. However, here are a few pieces I can recommend this weekend. Read More »
In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks to a growing number of connected devices. Cisco has put together this infographic to showcase the growth of the Internet of things. Read More »
Last week, Spotify launched in the United States with much fanfare. Many of our readers pinged me asking for get an invitation to Spotify’s music service. We talked to some folks over at Spotify and worked on getting you access. Here is how. Read More »
Michael Krell of Crowdflow takes the location data from 880 iPhones for the month of April 2011 and creates a time-lapse video that shows how iPhone users flow across Europe. It is pretty hypnotic. There are three videos that are worth watching. Read More »
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What should one make of the fact that Californians love to watch L.A. Story and Swimming with Sharks, or that New York is hooked on Smoking Aces? Or that Florida is all about Shrek? All of this and more is crammed into this delicious infographic. Read More »
Daniel Ek, co-founder of Spotify talks to me about Apple, Android and his service on consumer devices and in cars. More importantly he shares his vision about the company and what he wants it to be when it grows up in a couple of years. Read More »
Firepotter Labs, an incubator of sorts backed by Google and co-founded by Craig Walker, released Nosh, an app that lets users check in, rate, review and share menu items. It’s like a cross between Foursquare and Yelp for dishes. Read More »
I had a long chat with John Hagel, co-author of The Power of Pull and one of the most foremost thinkers on technology and its impact on the future of work, life and how we relate to each other. Here is a video conversation with him. Read More »
A source familiar with Google’s Blogger division told us that contrary to web rumors, the search giant has no plans to send the Blogger brand on its way. Or to paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of Blogger’s death have been greatly exaggerated and re-tweeted. Read More »
With Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and countless other options, blogging isn’t quite what it used to be. I wanted to know what the future of blogging is so I emailed Twitter’s Evan Williams. Here are some of the things he told me. Read More »
Zynga, the social gaming company recently filed to go public and raise a whopping $1 billion in its initial public offering. The folks from Namesake have put together a graphic that tells the story of Zynga, the people behind the company and how it got here. Read More »
On this new Alive Web, what we miss doesn’t matter. What matters is the connection and the interactions. And Google Hangouts, one of the features in Google+, is the killer app of the Alive Web. Read More »
Skype, the Internet telephony company that is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft has one ambition — get to a billion users – even if it risks the company losing control over its customers. And that just is fine for Facebook. Read More »
A report shows that by 2018, the traditional phone system is going to be reaching less than 6 percent of U.S. residents. It’s perhaps time to rethink the very notion of what a phone is and what defines the classic phone network. Read More »
Facebook’s approach to data is that of a one way street. Use any of its products — Connect, Comments, Likes — and you keep sending data into the giant Facebook brain. When you want to take something out of the Facebook borg — well, tough luck! Read More »
The long awaited partnership between Facebook and Skype finally became real. However, someone at Skype was a tad over-eager to share the news and tweeted it out about minutes before Zuckerberg got on stage. Read More »
Instagram, a San Francisco-based photo-oriented social network is the fastest growing photo sharing service on Twitter, according to data collected by Skylines, a real time photo search startup. And no, Instagram is not killing Twitpic and Yfrog just yet. Read More »
Foursquare is no longer a US phenomenon – the company is beginning to see some rapid growth in highly mobile societies and the newest one to join the party is Brazil which like Indonesia represents future growth for services like Foursquare. Brazil is already hot for … Read More »
Netflix, the streaming video service based in Los Gatos, California is going to launch its service in 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean later this year. subscribers will be able to access Netflix in Spanish, Portuguese, or English Read More »
If you are someone who is always on the move and spends a lot of time on the phone, then those phone bills stack up. In this age of mobile VoIP that shouldn’t be the case, but it does. This infographic will get you started. Read More »
Today is the 20th birthday of the first GSM phone call, which in many ways was the start of the global wireless revolution. GSM was adopted in 1987 as a standard. More than 4.4 billion people use phones based on GSM today. Read More »
Twitter is working to develop and launch a dedicated site for developers working on the Twitter platform, the company says. The inclusion of Twitter into the Apple’s iOS platform will bring many new developers to the platform, and the company wants to communicate better with them. Read More »
One thing is clear: Investors love Square, the payments company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, the co-creator of Twitter. The veteran venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is leading the $100 million investment in the company that is said to be valued at $1 … Read More »
Google launched its much awaited and highly anticipated social networking platform today. Dubbed Google+, the service may take its cue from social networking giant Facebook, but in reality it is about the harsh reality of Google saving and enhancing its core franchise — Google Search. Read More »
Ericsson has demoed a new variant of the technology called LTE Advanced, which is ten times faster than today’s commercial LTE networks. Ericsson showed-off LTE Advanced using commercial hardware in Kista, Sweden for the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency using 60 MHz of spectrum. Read More »
Skype’s investors maybe downright stingy when it comes to options for their employees, but at least they didn’t skimp on the office space. Here are some pictures of Skype’s offices in Stockholm, Sweden, courtesy of PS Arkitektur. This office is simply stunning and beautiful. Read More »
Business Week, in keeping with the grand tradition of long-form business publications, took a few thousands words that can be summed up in three words — Facebook killed Myspace. No kidding! I didn’t know that. And while that might be true, it isn’t stopping the social networking giant … Read More »
Let’s just face it — anytime some new start-up comes along and tries to innovate around the idea of music, it is hit by some roadblocks. Latest one to realize that – Turntable.fm. The social music discovery service is now unavailable to International … Read More »
Skype is in the process of being sold to Microsoft is fast becoming a poster child of investor greed and corporate mistreatment of it employees. An ex-employee is blaming investor Silver Lake Partners. Our sources say that investors were interfering with the company too much. Read More »
Cloud computing depends on the idea that we will have ample and cheap bandwidth that will allow us to access various types of information and services on any kind of device, anywhere. This need only goes up as we start living in an on-demand world. Read More »
A research team at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has come up with a new optical amplifier that can help boost the efficiency of backhaul optical networks, a move that could have a big impact on the overall economics of bandwidth. Read More »
Skype CEO Tony Bates — and not the company’s private equity investors — were behind company’s decision to part ways with many of their senior mangers, a company spokesperson told GigaOM. Skype Journal reported earlier that a whole gaggle of senior-level executives had been cut from … Read More »
Facebook has been talking to various music services with a focus on social sharing and discovery of music. In this exclusive report, we share some of Facebook’s plans and features. Expect these announcements at its annual developer conference, likely to be held in August. Read More »
Netflix, the popular online video service seems to be having an outage of some sorts. For past hour or so, I have been trying to access the service but I have been unable to watch it on my iPad or on my Apple TV. Read More »
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave the green light to Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, the Internet telephony company. Now there are reports that many key senior executives have left or have been asked to leave the company. Read More »
You might have seen me post about San Francisco-based Instagram way more than any of the newer mobile apps and services.The question is why Instagram works? And how did it get to over 5 million users so quickly. This comment just might answer that question. … Read More »
Nimbuzz, a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based Internet telephony company says it has signed up 50 million registered users across the globe. That’s minuscule when compared to Skype, but it’s still significant milestone for the upstart company which signs up 100,000 new users a day. Read More »
Google makes no bones about the fact that it is a speed freak. It loves speedy websites. It wants faster wireless Internet. And now, it’s buying up domain names that indicate it may become a more active agitator for faster wireline networks. Read More »
Nearly eleven years after Tim Westergen and his colleagues started Pandora, it began trading on the public markets. Westergen has been through hell and back and his story is no different from any entrepreneur who dares to try to capture lightning in a bottle. Read More »
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts showed off the next-generation cable broadband technology, which could deliver data at over 1 gigabit per second to our homes. Roberts showed a live 11-mile cable network, touting it as the future of wireline broadband. Read More »
We now have seamless connectivity via mobile devices; people can always be connected. This connectivity offers an opportunity to create a different kind of Internet experience that’s more immersive and interactive. That persistent connection is what allows us to create and experience the Alive Web. Read More »
More than a decade after it was started by Tim Westergren and cohorts, Oakland, Calif. based Pandora Music completed an initial public offering that saw the company raise about $235 million at about $16 a share. The company started trading at $20.30 a share. Read More »
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