Things are not looking good in VoIP land, and some of the marginal players are feeling the pressure of resurgent cable operators, and scorch earth tactics of Vonage. Presence of natural born channels AOL and Yahoo is giving some people a pause. e911 is proving to […] Read more »
Rob Glaser was busy building bowling alleys and buying shiny baubles when he should have been obsessing over his company, Real, which started out as the king of streaming media, but lost its way and handed over the lead to the likes of Microsoft and lately […] Read more »
Microsoft’s IPTV effort has received another set-back. A few weeks after Swisscom, an early Microsoft IPTV adopter delayed its IPTV plans because of technical issues, Australian incumbent, Telstra announced that it was not going to be taking part in trials with Microsoft. Australian telecom giant, Telstra […] Read more »
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Jeff says Dell is a lemon. Silicon.com says Apple is a lemon. So much for technological progress. Funny thing – we go ape-shit when tires blow up, but don’t sue the tech companies. Wake up consumers! Read more »
Folks, some good news to share. Always On Network and Technorati have just released their AO/Technorati Open Media 100 and I am on the list in the “Practitioners” category. It gives me a tingle for if you look at all the heavy weights in the list. […] Read more »
So the city is going to kill its hot-zone project. Expect this to show up as exhibit A in some Heartland Institute report… soon! via Read more »
The New York Times has a piece on small businesses off-shoring. Great idea–so great, in fact, that we did it as our cover last month. Maybe the NYT ought to outsource originality! Read more »
So far it has been ignored by most of the mobile world, but things are changing, The Feature says! Read more »
Nearly two-thirds of all new wireless users will be Asia. China and India being big part of the overall action! Read more »
It isn’t a product which you can use or test with, it’s a bunch of proposed algorithms. Read more »
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It started with low-awareness deals like 3Com’s partnership with Huawei. Then came the big whopper of a deal – Lenovo Group snapping up IBM’s PC business for $ 1.75 billion. Today comes news that Chinese appliance maker Haier is looking to make a bid for Maytag […] Read more »
Jack St. Clair Kilby, retired TI engineer and inventor of the integrated circuit, died yesterday in Dallas following a brief battle with cancer. He was 81. Mr. Kilby invented the first monolithic integrated circuit, which laid the foundation for the field of modern microelectronics, moving the […] Read more »
And that’s wonderful news for Cisco and Juniper, the current #1 and #2. Things are getting hot in the edge routers! Read more »
A quick and handy guide to transfer your saved TV shows to your PSP. Read more »
Will consumers buy MobileTV on phones? no one knows, but chips keep rolling! Read more »
the artists formally known as the telecom consulting and M&A practice of RHK Inc. Read more »
Today I am off to the Handango Partner Summit in Miami which I expect will be a lot of fun. It’s a good opportunity to see what Handango is up to and also get to meet some of the Microsoft Tablet team. I intend to keep […] Read more »
Quick call 911 for Ali Diab, Sr Director Yahoo Local Search Products is no longer with Yahoo it seems. Not sure where he’s gone (yet). He has been one of those much respected search guys who “got it.” Yahoo Search blog had a couple of interviews […] Read more »
Now that most media has run of most of the nice things to say about iPod, it is perhaps time to bring down the iconic music player a notch or two from its perch at the top of digital music totem pole. Or so goes the […] Read more »
and because all the good names were taken! Read more »
Good question, no good answers really! Read more »
First the Cox family, now the Dolans. What next? Roberts? Malone? Thank god the Rigas are not on the loose! Read more »
and might be sneaking its way back to the Senate via Senate Appropriations Committee spending bill, ala Real ID Act. Read more »
Hollywood Reporter says that according to Entertainment Media Research around 35% of music consumers now download tracks legally via the Internet and the percentage will soon pass the 40% who have pirated music. Proof, that when given an option, consumers always do the right thing. And […] Read more »
So for one day I leave the calculator in the bag, and try to be a nice guy … not forever, but just for one day. And guess what happens. I get spanked! Aswath Rao, does what I should have in the first place, and figures […] Read more »
This just in! John Rigas and his son Tim Rigas will spend 15 and 20 years respectively behind bars, and that just could be the kind of news that would make Bernie Ebbers quaking in his boots. He is expected to be sentenced on July 13, […] Read more »
Sony BMG is now introducing music CDs that have copy-protection, and will only rip to windows media. One more testament to Sony’s ongoing cluelessness about everything. The gaming division hates Microsoft. Music business hands over the keys to the kingdom to the enemy. They rule out […] Read more »
Jon Gales just pinged me and alerted me to a developing story involving Sprint and NFL. Apparently two organizations are close to signing a $200 million five year sponsorship deal. The promotional aspects aside, it seems Sprint will be able to show NFL clips on its […] Read more »
DMNews.com has put together an interesting list of things we probably did not know about VoIP. For instance, in April 2005, there were 1,229,411 searches for VoIP on Yahoo Search. Or that at present, there are seven companies paying around $4 per click for the term […] Read more »
First, President Bush was seen sporting an iPod on his bike, now Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II is using one. Reportedly, the 79-year-old sovereign has bought a six-gigabyte silver model for 169 pounds (255 euros, 310 dollars). Queen Elizabeth’s second son Prince Andrew, fourth in […] Read more »
Neowin.net says Microsoft is testing an update for its Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and will release it by August 2005. Its likely to include support for the Xbox 360, Native digital cable, content Protection, improved burning (DRM, network, Hi-def, DVD-RAM) and a whole bunch […] Read more »
The Tablet PC Show #13 (MP3 – 20.6MB – 59min 54sec)LISTEN HERE This Tablet PC Show, recorded on Father’s Day, is lucky show #13. Why is this lucky? The triumphant return of host Marc Orchant gives us a good excuse to catch up on events over […] Read more »
Cory Doctorow is definitely one of the better known contemporary sci-fi writers publishing today. This is no doubt due to a few things: his insistence on making all of his novels available for free electronic consumption, his involvement with BoingBoing, and his well documented work with […] Read more »
Collaboration tools can stimulate group participation in meetings better than static presentations ever will but until now there hasn’t been any way to do this easily. GTOCalcomp, a company I didn’t realize was still around, is touting their InterWrite MeetingPad 400 as the perfect thing to […] Read more »
The professor who created a sensation after saying that P2P should be legal is apparently a fake or so claim some bloggers. There is word now that Jorge Cortell had faked his resume, even though he claims to have been fired for advocating file sharing. Cortell […] Read more »
In the large scheme of telecom things, 10 billion minutes is really like an hour. But for a young start-up like Skype, ten billion minutes is a big achievement. Something that squeezes out a tear of joy from a hard heart skeptic like me. Skype Journal […] Read more »
Last week I wrote that the telecom downturn, or at least the loss of telecom jobs might be coming to an end. Now BellSouth in a surprising move says it will hire 1500 to handle its booming broadband business. The Wall Street Journal has the details, […] Read more »
I had this problem earlier, but just now another Google outage. Not sure if this is the same problem, but it is the same folks at SoGoSearch which are creating a problem again at Google. Let me know folks if you are seeing the same problems. […] Read more »
Reading, The New York Times’ this morning brought back some memories, of my early days in this country, and perhaps of the early days of the emerging South Asian identity. I Want My Hyphenated-Identity MTV, perhaps the worst headline ever, talks about the pending launch of […] Read more »
One of the advantages of downloading files from Bit Torrent was that you knew the spyware companies had not gotten their dirty paws on this network. Unlike Kazaa which has become a main-source for AdWare on many windows machines, Bit Torrent lived in relative ambiguity. But […] Read more »
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