Business 2.0 On May 7, Google (GOOG), perhaps the most indispensable online utility, went offline. Its dependents were immediately complaining in every forum they could find about their lack of access to search tools, Gmail accounts, and Google News. When Google came back online, after a […] Read more »
First off – sorry to all my loyal readers (I know, but at least I realize I’m delusional) that I’ve been quiet for the past week or so. I was off in Mexico with no connections whatsoever to the outside world. It was actually kind of […] Read more »
Microsoft launched Mobile Windows 5.0, even though its presence in the mobile market is 1.0. Everyone overlooked the fact that the worldwide shipments of phones using the Symbian platform increased 180% – 6.75 million Symbian-based phones shipped in the quarter compared to 2.4 million phones the […] Read more »
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Media 2.0 econ differs from Media 1.0 econ … strategies like celebs and talking heads – marketing-driven strategies – are doomed to surefire failure. via bubblegeneration Read more »
What goes around, comes around, at least in the blog world. Today, Paul and Fred have picked up on a post by Rags which compares VCs with music executives. Unfortunately, we had that conversation back on May 11, 2004. Coincidence that rest of the world is […] Read more »
If you haven’t heard about Windows Mobile 5.0 yet you must be living under a rock, or offline for the past 24 hours. Microsoft announced the release of the next version of the Windows Mobile operating system this week as Bill Gates gave a presentation showing […] Read more »
Sony has announced the release of a new ultra-portable notebook, the T350, that adds integrated high-speed EDGE connectivity to the standard WiFi and Bluetooth. The EDGE capability makes it possible to have a genuine always connected experience at 3G speeds. The T350 is expected to retail […] Read more »
Many Mac enthusiast web sites are buzzing over the posting of pictures of an Apple Tablet PC lifted from a patent application. The news of this patent application is rather old as it first surfaced in the middle of last year but the pics are the […] Read more »
Fred Wilson thinks so, and good lord, could he be more off the mark. He is mystified by all the un-search moves the company is making, and worries about their Web 2.0 behavior. I don’t know – I see it as part of a company trying […] Read more »
Business 2.0: Billboard is betting that its brand will translate into big business in mobile music. Every thinks their brand will bring in the bucks. Its not a zero sum game you know. Read more »
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It is quite gratifying to see major pubs take your experiences/posts and turn them into a nice big piece. Wired has a nice piece on the increasing cost of subscription overload in the most recent issue. I wrote this piece, Digital LifeStyle is Not Cheap, way […] Read more »
Not that it should come as a surprise, since I have written about it in the past, but looks like there is more proof that Telemex is giving the VoIP providers a “club bouncer” treatment. A major daily has picked up on the problems VoIP users […] Read more »
Skype just announced that it is partnering with Fiberlink – a company that develops voice-data solutions for corporations. This is a pretty interesting move, because this actually gets Skype into the enterprise market without spending a dime. Though the IT managers so far have been worried […] Read more »
Apple have been granted a patent application for a Tablet device, complete with images and descriptive text. The patent compares it directly to other Windows based devices such as HP’s tablet PC lineup. The images show that the device has a touch screen, and is of […] Read more »
Cisco reported sales of $6.19 billion and profits of $1.4 billion, or 21 cents per share blowing past analyst estimates. Routers saw some steady growth, but it was the IP telephony group that “blew past” the $1 billion run rate, John Chambers said. Storage, optical and […] Read more »
Mobile Music Blog, actually had the real photos. It just took a long time to get confirmation. Apparently, the software will be released within weeks, possibly by July! Read more »
First they went out and snagged British Telecom, and today comes news that Huawei is about to announce a major deal with Spain’s Telefonica is going to be buying its gear. Despite being dismissed as low end provider by most US equipment majors, Chinese upstart is […] Read more »
With this week’s release of iTunes 4.8, the possibility of an iTunes Movie Store edges just a little closer, with tantalising scraps of evidence suggesting if not an explicit precursor to full scale digital film distribution then at least a dabbling in the waters at the […] Read more »
Ross Mayfield tells the Socialtext story, minus the drama of course. Sorry, this one is not going to turn into a web-based reality series, but still is a damn good read. Read more »
Talk about regretting the upgrade to Tiger. Computer is slow, the email is acting like its got arthritis and well, what can I say. ISync, which was working till yesterday, stopped working with my Nokia 6620 for no apparent reason. Tried to reset the phone, and […] Read more »
Okay fine, their portable media players are not exactly the best looking products on the market. And they are not the ones with best user interface. But you can’t deny that Archos, does know how to jump ahead of the technology curve. One of the first […] Read more »
Sun Microsystems decides that perhaps it is time to buy into this whole remote access thing. You know giving access to folks to corporate applications via a browser. So it buys Tarantella, for about $25 million. Not to be left behind, Microsoft decides to make an […] Read more »
You may remember from a while back the emergence of a piece of software called CherryOS, from a company called Maui X-Stream, which claimed to provide PowerPC emulation on x86 machines at decent speed, so that all the Windows-using wannabes can use Mac OS X without […] Read more »
Voice recognition software mini-giants Scansoft and Nuance are tying the knot in a $221 million merger. Maybe finally the damn technology will work. Read more »
Forget Google PageRank, its time to get your Preople rank. Did you know that Harry Potter is more popular than President Bush. Nicole Kidman truly kicks Tom Cruise’s ass. Or that on the internet, Jesus Christ is marginally ahead of Bill Gates Read more »
My quest for a Tablet PC to replace the Sony U750 has come to a close and I thought I should share the process I went through to make the decision. As you know I am all about mobile devices and had a couple of criteria […] Read more »
BroadbandReports says “Broadvoice customers in our VoIP forum have been dealing with outages and other random errors for much of the past week. ‘This is like third world phone service, except worse,’ complains one user.” Idiot, doesn’t he know that third worlders are first worlders of […] Read more »
Mediacom, the eighth largest cable provider in the US, is boosting its bandwidth speeds from 3Mpbs to 5Mbps and at the same time is introducing a new “Premier 10Mbps Service. Read more »
We’ll launch the first Wi-Fi phones this year. The consumer hard phones [that you plug directly into an Ethernet cable] will start this year. Probably first in the small business context, where the additional functionality of extra buttons and more lines is worthwhile. But we are […] Read more »
Or so says, Charlie Giancarlo, head of Cisco’s Linksys division. “The phone adaptor is just at the beginning and I believe it’s just a transitional device. What we are going to see soon are hard IP phones as well as Wi-Fi phones. In the case of […] Read more »
Wayport, a US-based Wi-Fi aggregator/service provider with over 9000 US locations has acquired NetPoint A/S, a high-speed Internet access for the hospitality industry in Europe and the Middle East. Yesterday Boingo announced that it was partnering with Ireland’s BitBuzz. Maybe there will be global WiFi roaming […] Read more »
Anyone remember a group called Eighth Wonder, featuring Patsy Kensit, who was also Mel Gibson’s South African love interest in Lethal Weapon, back in the day when Mel didn’t go all religious on us. Well, that band was really a one hit wonder – its biggest […] Read more »
The first quarter 2005 was a torrid one for broadband service providers, according to Leichtman Research Group. Nearly 2.5 million subscribers were added to the total US broadband subscribers during the quarter, bringing the total to 35.8 million. Cable has over 21.1 million broadband subscribers, and […] Read more »
Not happy putting stakes through the hearts of Wall Street bandits, the broadband crew, spyware barons and insurance companies, NY Attorney General is going after the phone companies. He doesn’t much care for the big phone mergers – the Verizon-MCI and SBC-AT&T. In other words he […] Read more »
Mercora, one of the place shifting companies I have written in the past is going mobile. To remind you all, Mercora is a peer-to-peer radio network which lets you share playlists of music on your hard drives with a certain set of friends, or listeners. The […] Read more »
SFist teases us and asks – Which two huge Valley players have been seen canoodling in the boardroom, thisclose to a merger? Think Macromedia and Adobe crossed with Tom and Katie big when these two are spotted holding hands while they discuss which positions are redundant […] Read more »
C/Net takes Engadget’s X-Box scoop, passes it on … of course without credit. What’s new….sigh! Apparently, C/Net has fixed the error, and credited Engadget. That’s only after Jason sent a stinker to C/Net CEO Shelby Bonnie. Read more »
Engadget reports that Sprint is quietly turning on its EVDO network. Currently the service is available in Kansas City, Port Columbus International Airport, Columbus, Ohio, and the Charlotte International Airport in Charlotte, NC. Las Vegas, Raleigh-Durham, Cleveland, Des Moines, St. Louis, and New Orleans are next. […] Read more »
Cable & Wireless welcomes Net2Phone VoIP to Cayman Islands, for business, not pleasure Read more »
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