A few years ago, Philippe Kahn, who headed up Borland and started a couple of other companies including LightSurf and Starfish Software said, “Synchronization between various devices needs to happen quite automatically, without complication and has to be transparent.” With the new Plaxo 3.0, Kahn’s wishes […] Read more »
So you’ve got your engineering degree, and your marquee MBA, and a business-plan. You’re on your way. But at some point you’re going to have to ‘grace’ your way through an important networking or social event. How you handle this matters–probably more than you care to […] Read more »
Looks like common sense is finally prevailing in the for-fee Wi-Fi business. Boingo Wireless, a Wi-Fi aggregator is launching a flat rate Wi-Fi plan for the entire planet, which seems like a first step in Wi-Fi price war, and that is just great, repeat great news […] Read more »
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What’s Wrong With Web Work: We spend so much time talking about the benefits of our way of work that we tend to gloss over some of the drawbacks. I’ll start with some of the obvious drawbacks of web work that we don’t always mention. Continue […] Read more »
Earlier today Valleywag published a post suggesting that Microsoft paid me (and a number of other bloggers) off to recite their corporate slogan. It is a serious charge, one I take very seriously. I have been upfront about my ethics and propriety in my reporting, so […] Read more »
The recent squabble between Google and one of its biggest customers, eBay might have seemed like a catfight, but it also hinted at a new eBay strategy to shift their advertising dollars to non-Google destinations and networks. As background, the eBay-Google hostilities spilled over into press […] Read more »
At the end of first quarter 2007, the total number of broadband subscribers was close to 300 million, and according to folks at Point Topic, we are way past that number by now. Thanks to strong growth in Eastern Europe and China, the broadband subscriber base […] Read more »
Updated: Jake Winebaum is a fellow Time Inc. refugee and we have talked in the past about everything from missed opportunities at our ex-employer and of course Business.com. He joked about the jokes about his and Sky Dayton buying Business.com for $7.5 million back in Bubble […] Read more »
Most start-ups have it tough. But imagine running your little company in shadow of war. Adam Benayoun, co-founder of Octabox tells his story, which can be summed up in this one line: ‘Dear Customer: Sorry for the new release delay. The Army is at the door–again.’ […] Read more »
Recent developments in Gaza and ongoing violence elsewhere in the Middle East remind me of the instability of my company’s home country: Israel. It is hard enough to run a start-up, and there are plenty of things that make entrepreneurship a high-risk proposition. But there is […] Read more »
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For sometime I have been scratching my head about the $8.3 million funding received by Daylife, a news aggregator of sorts, wondering how could this start-up, a mainstream media mash-up of Digg-style voting site, a meme tracker and plain-old news aggregator, get such a massive amount […] Read more »
Cisco Systems recently suffered the ignominy of losing the top spot as Silicon Valley’s most valuable company to Google, albeit briefly, before climbing back to the top. The momentary shift might have focused attention on Google and its winning hand, but it also shined the spotlight […] Read more »
Subscribe to Interesting Things, an irregular column of interesting things and get it delivered in you InBox Or you can sign-up for the RSS feed for this column YouTube, bigger than BBC in UK. (link) Social media burnout? YES YES AND YES Addfone, an iPhone apps […] Read more »
Open Communication Systems, the company behind conferencing & group communications service, Radio Handi has been acquired by Virtual PBX, a ten year old provider of hosted PBX service for businesses. While Radio Handi does clever things like easily broadcast audio on the net, it is conference […] Read more »
We have been playing around with the recently released VeohTV — a desktop software download that allows you to watch web video in a dedicated client, and offers capabilities similar to some of the other P2P TV offerings including Joost. We took the software for a […] Read more »
Social Networks are like celebrities – there is always a pretty young thing just waiting to be discovered. If you follow that logic, then MySpace is like Celine Dion, good for political parodies, but kinda low on the hipness scale. In comparison, the post-API Facebook is […] Read more »
Yahoo is making some noise this morning, and it has got nothing to do with Terry Semel, Jerry Yang, Rupert Murdoch, and Sue Decker. Yahoo says that their Yahoo! Go 2.0 software, that allows you to access various Yahoo services on your mobile phones is ready […] Read more »
Things are running a little slow this morning, which is typically what happens if have too much fun, and end up watching the funnies on the big screen. We had the 2nd edition of NewTeeVee Pier Screenings yesterday, and only now are trying to get up […] Read more »
They are popping champagne in New Jersey. Verizon says it now has a million customers for its FiOS data service and half-a-million FiOS TV subscribers. These numbers are tracking in line with analyst estimates. Verizon announced this just before CEO Ivan Seidenberg made his keynote speech […] Read more »
Steve Jobs and the iPhone must really have a strange effect on people, especially grown men who are in charge of a company that is as old as the collective ages of me and Steve and Dupree. Never before has the senior management of AT&T been […] Read more »
Google has snapped up yet another start-up – Zenter, which is building online presentations. This is yet-another-exit for YCombinator, the madrassa of the Web 2.0 crowd. In Microsoft world those are known as PowerPoints. Google had earlier bought Tonic Systems, a start-up that was working on […] Read more »
Apple’s iTunes store is one of the better download experiences on the Internet. But it’s still quite frustrating to download movies or television shows from the store. It is not Apple’s fault: it is just the nature of the network — from Apple servers to your […] Read more »
Looks like folks from Fring are all set to release the Windows Mobile version of their VoIP-IM aggregation client, that allows you to connect to diverse services such as Skype and Gtalk. The software is going to work on around 300 Windows Mobile series 5.0 & […] Read more »
Terry Semel-Sue Decker-Jerry Yang drama had us all distracted from the fact that Yahoo (YHOO) is going to report yet another bad quarter. The company told Wall Street analysts that the June quarter is going to come in towards the lower half of revenue and EBITDA […] Read more »
It has been nearly fourteen months since my co-founder, “Adam Smith”:http://www.xobni.com/executive_bios.php#adam_smith, and I spent a week holed up in the East Campus dorm at MIT deciding what we were going to make out of a small investment from “Y Combinator”:http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_5657753?nclick_check=1 to deal with a big pain […] Read more »
2007 is turning out to be a nice year for technology initial public offerings, especially for companies that are involved with communications gear, services and chips. Deutsche Bank analyst Ted Tobiason crunched some numbers and came up with some pretty interesting findings: Read more »
The telecom scandals that rocked the capital markets in the early part of this decade are fast becoming a distant (and somewhat faded memory.) Even though 100s of thousands lost their jobs, and billions of investor capital evaporated into thin air, the perpetrators have mostly gone […] Read more »
As part of YouTube’s assimilation into Google, the fast growing video site is going international and is rolling out local versions of its video site in Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the U.K. Each new version of the site has been translated […] Read more »
So it finally happened: angry shareholders seem to have got their way, and Terry Semel, CEO of the flailing web giant, Yahoo has resigned from his post and will now become a non executive chairman. Jerry Yang, cofounder will become the CEO and Sue Decker will […] Read more »
Whether you agree with my reasons about why iPhone is going to change the mobile business, it is already leading to major rethinking amongst large handset makers, on how they approach the handsets. Apple is making it okay to experiment with new ideas, and throw out […] Read more »
Back in November 2006, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin told Business Week that by 2010 nearly 10 percent of his company’s revenues would come from data related sales. We did a back-of-the-envelope calculation and figured that would be a whopping $7 billion. How they were going to […] Read more »
Well I am glad that Microsoft has changed the name of their IPTV offering to Media Room. After all, it fits nicely with the PR effort around their television platform, which remains more of an experiment than a reality. Looking just at today’s news announcement, it […] Read more »
It seems, there is no such thing as a perfect home networking technology. Be it Wi-Fi or power line networking, as home networks become increasingly complex, so will our options. While Wi-Fi might be the one size fits all connectivity option, we might end up using […] Read more »
Real Networks (RNWK), the company that was one of the first companies to bet on streaming media (first audio and then video) recently released a new player, adding click-and-save web video feature. The company executives, while not being explicit, seemed pretty bullish about their prospects. Could […] Read more »
Harvey Chute, who writes The Zunerama blog, had an interesting discovery when looking through the innards of his computer. In the ZuneMarketplace.dll, he found some text strings that are apparently unused at present but show that there is a good chance that VH1, and CMT might […] Read more »
Brightcove, an online video infrastructure provider, says it has signed a deal with Fox Entertainment Group (FEG) which will be used for various different Fox properties to go online, and build ad-supported Internet video channels. includes the Fox Studio, Fox Broadcast Network, and Fox’s 9+ cable […] Read more »
The Age (of Australia) has put together a list of top ten digital cities based on different metrics such as broadband speed, cost of bandwidth, wireless connectivity, technology adoption and future potential. It is no surprise Seoul tops the list of the cities, followed by Singapore, […] Read more »
We are all set for the Second MetaCafe/NewTeeVee Pier Screenings next week on June 19th. If you are in town for Supernova, then you gotta come out for a very special screening of great online video parodies. Of course, what’s the point of having a parody […] Read more »
Why is T-Mobile UK blocking calls to mobile VoIP start-up Truphone? Mobile carriers are scared of one thing: becoming dumb pipes whose only utility is to carry voice and text. And it is one of the reasons why they are fighting tooth and nail with the […] Read more »
I’m currently a part of the executive team at my company. I’ve recently been asked to join a board of another company that is pretty established and one day could go public or have a big valuation. *What sort of compensation should I be expecting to […] Read more »
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