Anyone remember Easy Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), the very same company that shut down after being in business for barely nine months. Well it’s going to be back, this time with Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the maverick behind the low cost airline EasyJet in charge. […] Read more »
Now this is so off-topic, and so inside-baseball and so rife with conflicts of interest, that you just might skip reading this post. However, if you indeed end up reading it, I got hold of some gossip too good to pass up. It seems Owen Thomas, […] Read more »
A story in the Times of London asserts that the recent success of Facebook platform had the Palo Alto-based hot social environment scrambling for server space, and had to raise emergency cash in order to support the growth surge. The story certainly caught the attention of […] Read more »
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If staying online is getting on your nerves; or if you think you are feeling the information overload, it is time for you to under The Zen & The Art of Attention. Over on Web Worker Daily, Anne Zelenka has some counter intuitive suggestions. “What if […] Read more »
So finally Peter Adderton, the much talked about CEO of Amp’d and the company he started have parted ways. Rumors of his departure have been making the rounds for sometime, but now it is official. We even confirmed it with the company. “Peter and Amp’d have […] Read more »
As I wrote “yesterday in Part I”:http://gigaom.com/2007/06/12/the-margin-manifesto-by-tim-ferriss/, the ultimate goal of a start-up is not to acquire more customers, more office space, or even more revenue. The ultimate goal of a start-up is financial: it is to *acquire more profit in the least amount of time, […] Read more »
Back in the day, you know in 1997, a company like Lycos or Yahoo (YHOO) would announce an e-commerce relationship with say Barnes and Noble or some travel site every other week. With advertising revenues scant, e-commerce deals were then seen as a quick way for […] Read more »
Blame iPhone and Stevenote for my Monday long loss of reality, which made me totally overlook Juniper’s (JNPR) announcement about their new router, T-1600, the very same one, that is supposed to compete with Cisco’s uber router, CRS-1. This was a router Juniper was developing in […] Read more »
Now and then we invite really smart and well known authors to contribute their insights to our various sites, hoping that their unconventional wisdom adds value to our readers. This week we have Tim Ferriss, author of the best selling productivity bible, The 4 Hour Work […] Read more »
Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote, demo of upcoming Leopard and Safari for Windows may have generated a lot of oohs and ahhs, but it was towards the end that His Jobness revealed the game plan to irreversibly change the world of wireless. Read more »
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The financial goal of a start-up should be simple: profit in the least time with the least effort. Not more customers, not more revenue, not more offices or more employees: more profit. Based on my interviews with high-performing CEOs in more than 20 countries, and my […] Read more »
So what did Steve Jobs say to his flock that will make a difference to those of us who earn our livings based on our digital lifestyles? Leopard is still shipping in October for $129. What’s more than eye candy and really interesting? Find out on […] Read more »
Our sources at Cisco Systems have been telling us that the router maker is pretty interested in peer-to-peer networking technologies, especially as video on the Internet starts to explode. The company made its intentions known today by investing in Oversi, an Israeli P2P traffic management start-up […] 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 Qwest CEO Dick Notebaert is leaving the company. With Ed Whitacre gone from AT&T, maybe the new AT&T […] Read more »
Okay folks you got a few minutes to make your picks about what you want from Steve Jobs during his WWDC keynote, that kicks off soon. There a whole potpourri of rumors going around, some seemingly credible, and others just completely loco. Safari for Windows (link) […] Read more »
The $1.6 billion buyout of YouTube was a good indicator that Google, the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant had serious designs on the online video business. Its recent moves, including a partnership with Apple, are signs that it will keep investing. More anecdotal proof that the […] Read more »
Sina (SINA) and Google (GOOG) have announced a deal that puts Google search box on Sina’s website, which means Sina will be sending traffic to Google, in exchange for a share the search advertising revenues with Sina. Google is also going to be offering Adsense/Adwords on […] Read more »
You know Open Web (the trend formerly known as Web 2.0) has reached a point of maturity, when eBay, the auction giant decides to embrace it ethos. The company at the eBay Developer Conference in Boston announcedthat it has opened up its three core business units […] Read more »
At the recent All Things D conference, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer of Apple in an uncharacteristic display of modesty dubbed Apple TV, as a “hobby” that the company was trying to figure out. He, then proceeded to outline his grand vision of turning the Apple […] Read more »
It has been a weekend of relative quiet and peace – where most of the time was spent cleaning up the apartment, and discovering that I had more digital device clutter than any sane person should have. In other words, time to head on over to […] Read more »
Providence Capital Partners has acquired 66% of comparison shopping engine for about $863 million, pegging the value of the company at $1.2 billion, reports the Wall Street Journal, though it doesn’t have any official confirmation so to speak. We had first reported on the pending deal […] Read more »
Updated: TechCrunch reports that German social network Xing might be in talks to acquire Plaxo, the address book updating web service that many dub as an early iteration of a social network. My sources are telling me that there is no deal and all talk instead […] Read more »
It was an intense week where I ignored some of my writing duties, and as a way of apology, I say: better stories next week. Meanwhile, if you are looking to do something this week, I suggest downloading the Babelgum beta. The company has opened up […] Read more »
In his post over on Wired.com, Fred Vogelstein channels buzz words like cloud computing to make a case for a deeper and a more meaningful relationship between Apple and Google, one that addresses issues around the dot.Mac and its inability to offer an optimum experience. My […] Read more »
Infinera , a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based start-up, went public yesterday in what is turning out to be one of the hottest public offerings in recent months. Even though the optical gear maker is still bleeding red, the company managed to raise about $182 million by selling 14 […] Read more »
As a project manager, I frequently have had to deal with outsourcing work, and offshore outsourcing, specifically. From my past experience, I can only say that while sometimes the costs are very low and, therefore, somewhat seductive, in the long term you generally end up paying […] Read more »
A new improved version of Gizmo Project’s VoIP client for Nokia dual mode (WiFi+cellular) handsets is now available from the Nokia Labs website. It is worth the upgrade, since it has a lot of bug fixes compared to the previous version, which was built for Nokia […] Read more »
Audio and visual fingerprinting of copyrighted video is seen as the best way to combat infringement, but in NewTeeVee’s testing this week across multiple sites, it did not work. We were surprised to be able to upload multiple times the exact same copyrighted file, even after […] Read more »
A few weeks ago I had lunch with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. Since it was an off the record conversation, it didn’t show up on the blog. However, he did say something that has stuck in my mind and has become a daily mantra […] Read more »
Jobster, the Seattle-based job search company really needs to come up with a better and more formal job description for itself. The company that has been through a major upheaval has changed its game plan so often, that it is hard to take what they are […] Read more »
The company formed to distribute News Corp and NBC Universal videos online and be a YouTube killer, a.k.a. NewCo still doesn’t have a name, and Light Reading’s Phil Harvey has three suggestions – Didja, TV for Me and Phylo — based on “three trademark applications submitted […] Read more »
Rich love their broadband, and not so rich, well they are still on the fence! That’s the inference of the latest research conducted by Leichtman Research Group, a Durham, NH-based market research company. The company conducted a telephone survey of 1,600 randomly selected households, and found […] Read more »
It will be end of an era: On February 17, 2009 the Rabbit Ear Antennas that have been around since the 1950s will be retired. Why? because broadcast networks will stop broadcasting television signals to digital signals. The switch means that one in five Americans who […] Read more »
I am embarrassed to say that it took me 10 years to learn one of the most fundamental pillars of leadership: It is all about outcomes — and not activities. This business truth is simple and obvious, yet, extraordinarily powerful. Unfortunately, it remains strangely elusive for […] Read more »
Google Calendar is adding event-tracking capability that allows Calendar users to add public events to your calendar. Add the NBA Playoff schedule to the calendar or pick events from the Eventful database. Google’s new calendar gallery has listings from sources like Disney, Eventful, JamBase, Orbitz, the […] Read more »
What kind of Americans are starting to watch video shows on cell phone screens? According to data from Nielsen, middle-aged men with high incomes. That proves the price point is just too high right now — oh yeah, and rich old men always have all the […] Read more »
The buzz around Craig McCaw’s Clearwire and WiMAX has been the kind of boost tiny Towerstream has been looking for. It had been selling fixed wireless services to businesses for a while and had made a nice living following the time tested business philosophy of organic […] Read more »
It’s with great excitement that I’m writing this follow up article. Over the last week we have been in close communication with the CEO of my former employer, and I’m pleased to announce that we have negotiated a fair and equitable settlement to our dispute over […] Read more »
If you are a baseball fanatic like yours truly, then you can only watch the masterful pitching of Japanese pitcher Dice-K with a sense of sheer amazement, regardless of the fact that he toils for the much loathed Red Sox (at least in my one person […] Read more »
Tuesday might as well go down as upgrade your favorite Mac app day: we have had new versions of some of the more popular Macintosh applications – Net News Wire, Mars Edit, and more importantly, Camino, the best Mac browser of them all. (Two of these […] Read more »
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