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Om Malik

Bio:Om is the founder of GigaOM Network, where he is currently a senior writer. He has worked as a senior writer for Forbes.com, Red Herring and Business 2.0. He is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. Om blogs about baseball, life and music on his personal blog, OmIs.Me. Follow him on Twitter @om

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My Focus

Broadband
Social Web
Mobile Internet

Recent Posts

At the start of this year I had written an opinion piece on Microsoft and the challenges it faces as the world moves away from personal computers and become more of a connected universe where networks, devices and home entertainment come together. ( Well that is… Read More »

Samsung is #3

According to research firm IDC, in Q3 2003, Samsung improved its number three global market share position to 11.5 percent, up from 10.5 percent in the previous quarter. Researchers Strategy Analytics note that Samsung shipped 15 million phones worldwide in 3Q 2003. The company will… Read More »

If you like millions opened the Wall Street Journal this morning, you would have seen this headline screaming at you: Big Bet Behind Intel Comeback: In Chips, Speed Isn’t Everything. The story waxes eloquent about how chipzilla survived the downturn and is making a comeback, thanks to… Read More »

Blog the Dog

Anyone seen that movie, Wag the Dog? It was a classic tale of life imitating art or something like that. Anyway I was observing an interesting trend today. For past couple of years the blogsphere used to take a cue from the institutional media and bloggers… Read More »

It is Cable Vs Baby Bells and it is going to get ugly. It might be great for us because I think the broadband prices are going to decline. And hopefully so will the prices for video component of the cable business. Since Baby Bells have started… Read More »

After a long gloomy couple of fiber optic years, the folks at Ciena and Advanced Fiber Communications are cracking open the bottles of bubbly. Ciena got a big order for its edge multiservice access platform from SingTel, the Singaporean telecom company. AFC is the big beneficiary of the… Read More »

New Delhi police deploy wireless network for polling stations Waiting for Hybrid Mobile Phones Irrational Exuberance hits the VoIP Marketplace Can Grid Computing Save Telecom? Sprint PCS launches coast-to-coast PTT TV Comes to Cell Phones (PC World) Read More »

FTTH Is Almost Here

Like Mark Twain said, the death of fiber to the home is greatly exaggerated. I think finally this much maligned technology is coming to market. As a first step, Verizon announced that it has selected four vendors for its fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) project.ð The four vendors are… Read More »

Britain to be broadband enabled by 2005

British Telecom says 100% of the UK can have high-speed net by 2005, if public and private sectors work to stimulate demand, reports BBC News. Read More »

Race to wire America

The New York Times has finally picked on what has been happening all around us – the quest for broadband. In a well reported piece the Times talks about ventures such as Utah Broadband. bq. Nationally, there are around 1,800 wireless Internet access providers, said Robert Hoskins,… Read More »

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