Tata-VSNL buying Tyco, Singapore Telecom buying pieces of Global Crossing and Reliance Infocomm snapping up Flag Telecom – these were early signs that the much awaited rationalization in the undersea cable market might be happening. More anecdotal proof of that trend. Bermuda-based Southern Cross Cable, a […] Read more »
Verizon is building its FIOS/fiber service as fast as it can, but not fast enough since it faces a newly energized and increasingly aggressive Cablevision, the incumbent cable operator in many parts of New York. The company is adding about 1000 customers for its VoIP service […] Read more »
Or so says Stephen Baker over at Business Week: When Nuovo came by our offices a few weeks ago, I was prepared to be skeptical. But after checking out the new phones, for the first time in years I found myself experiencing… phone lust. Read more »
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Often, you find that the hard drive capacity on your Mac just won’t cut it. As your collection of MP3′s, video and photographs begins to grow, you often find your diskspace running out at a fairly fast rate. There are two directions you can then take. […] Read more »
The third thing is, what are you losing if you don’t upgrade your own infrastructure? I mean, you’re not keeping up with Bangalore [India] and Korea. They’re moving ahead, but you’re just stuck here.You will never compete on lower labor costs. However, by having a municipal […] Read more »
Paul Kedrosky, a professor at the University of California, San Diego says that the recent $200 million venture capital infusion into Vonage is nothing but great expectations. He believes that Vonage’s valuation is at a point, where it would need a king of fools to bail […] Read more »
If you haven’t seen the funny ads for OneNote, part of the "stationery is bad" series, then head over and check them out. Be sure and pay attention to all the office workers in the background, they are really funny. Read more »
Following up on the Google outage. Something weird is going on, as reader Brendan Loy points out. It has been on my mind as well. Read more »
After we reported the Google problems yesterday, David Krane of Google, pointed out that the outage was for about 15 minutes or so. Given that the company had sales of $1.256 billion in the previous quarter, or about $581,481 an hour, apparently the company lost about […] Read more »
Qwest, still smarting from the beating it got chasing MCI, hasn’t given up hope. If enough MCI shareholders revolt at the deal being offered by Verizon, CEO Richard Notebaert would mind taking another run at the company. “One always needs to keep an open mind. Every […] Read more »
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SBC is all set to take on the local city/muni governments as it plans to roll out its IPTV service over next 18 months. The company has been running into head winds of federal and state regulations for cable television franchises that dictate what is offered […] Read more »
We are no different than any other industry. You have good years … and suddenly demand falls off, and there are more companies, there are more sellers than there are buyers for technology. The San Francisco Chronicle Read more »
Nick Bradbury (FeedDemon) posts about a visit to his doctor and the utility he saw using Tablet PCs. It seems his doctor had Tablet PCs in all the rooms and did all patient documentation in real time on the Tablet screen. The coolest part- his doctor […] Read more »
Recap: 6:13PM PST: Google was not hacked, but instead had a DNS problem. For some readers the site was redirecting to the SoGoSearch page. That continues to fox me, and I plan to investigate further. All services have been restored. I find it amazing: Google is […] Read more »
Brian, a good pal of mine, is a big show-off. Every time I meet him for spicy Hunan food, he brags about his Blackberry 7100, and how cool it is to be able to manage his email on the go, and calendaring and all that stuff. […] Read more »
Sramana Mitra writes about Peter Redford’s new experiement in book publishing called Browse. Authors submit their manuscripts to this portal, and work with affiliated editors, content and service providers like distribution agents to produce the book. I imagine this is the next evolution of the print-on-demand […] Read more »
Just because its from Google, and has a fancy name, doesn’t mean you need it. Google says its web accelerator is designed to be used with broadband. Excuse me – do I need to accelerate my browsing experience if I have broadband. Makes the whole software […] Read more »
Given all the hoopla around Google’s Web Accelerator, especially with the privacy fears and application problems, why isn’t waiting to pause and ask the question: what’s the big deal? After all Google really did not break any new ground here – its not a new radical […] Read more »
With over $400 million in funding, Vonage clearly has everyone’s attention. It has over 500,000 subscribers (though no idea about the churn rate) and is ramping up to double that number by end of the year. This at a time when the e911 problems are threatening […] Read more »
First a death in Texas, and now another one in Florida, this e911 is going to become a hot button issue in the coming days, especially for Vonage, which has become the public face of the VoIP technology. This report says that a Volusia County, Florida […] Read more »
Andy says now that Bain Capital has invested in Vonage, it won’t be too long before they get bought out. I ask the question who will buy them? Mark Evans is backing Sprint as likely suitor. Dan Berninger, now with Tier 1 Research sent me an […] Read more »
Ars Tecnica has a fascinating article covering the history of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), that part of the operating system that provides a large part of the user experience. They cover the GUI from day one, which surprisingly was long before the computer was in […] Read more »
I run across a lot of people who are dual platform PC users- they either use Windows XP primarily and sometimes a Mac or vice versa. Users like this usually end up missing some utility of one operating system that the other doesn’t have and look […] Read more »
In the wake of megafunding round Vonage just raised, Mike Masnick over at Techdirt asks can Vonage go public? Given the checkered past of Vonage CEO Jeffrey Citron, where he is apparently forbidden from running a public company, this is a good question. I am not […] Read more »
Geekfishing, the blog from Ignition Partners have this to say about Vonage funding: They are doing about $292M in revenue this year and have 90K lines in 2003, 390K lines in 2004 and as of May have 650K lines. That is explosive. The projection is 1.2M […] Read more »
Having lost the battle for MCI to Verizon, Businessweek says that the future for Qwest might be very cloudy, and it would need a lot of juggling by the its 57-year-old CEO Dick Notebaert to revive the sinking fortunes of the company, which has to clean […] Read more »
Mark Evans pens a great piece in The National Post about how Asterisk and its developer Mark Spencer will up-end the $13 billion PBX business. At risk are big players like Nortel, Alcatel and other PBX developers. Devoid of geek speak, Mark outlines the story so […] Read more »
Allan Tumolillo, COO of Probe Financial Associates, who is now becoming quite well known for his radical missives believes that there maybe some dark clouds looming over Comcast. He warns people should not get too obsessed with company’s first quarter earnings, and its revenue per customer. […] Read more »
On paper the merger of SBC & AT&T would have spelt doom for Covad. After all AT&T was a big buyer of Covad’s DSL lines and was now part of SBC which itself has a pretty hefty footprint. Instead it is proving to be a big […] Read more »
PaidContent.org points to a News.com scoop that Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding downloadable songs and music data from across the Internet. “It makes sense because Yahoo’s got access to all this music to begin with,” said Gary Stein, an analyst at Jupiter Research. […] Read more »
For those of who have lived through the bubble of the late 1990s very well know that there is something called dumb money. And in many cases it was the likes of Bain Capital, who were glad to provide that. Hello again … for now they […] Read more »
I have been in correspondence with a company that has been working on getting a working version of Linux on the Sony U. The problem they immediately ran into was the lack of a Linux driver for the Sony touchscreen, so they did what true geeks […] Read more »
05.05.005 comes only once in 1000 years and coinciding with Thursday (5th Day of the week) comes only once in 7000 yrs… via Drudge Read more »
As I had hinted at earlier this week, Vonage did go out and raise new money – $200 million or so, but its not from venture capitalists. Instead the company is doing a private sale of securities, according to SEC filings. Since its a paper filing, […] Read more »
Okay today is the day you go loco, drink too much tequila. But you don’t start a day early, or too soon. I think Motorola’s pricing strategy for OjO is just that – loco. (I had ranted about this earlier as well!) I mean what are […] Read more »
What you read is not what you blog? I get that feeling after reading Cory Doctorow’s comment over on Boing Boing about Bruce Sterling’s Wired column this month He takes an amazing, science-fictional view of how an internetworked world is likely to upend the creaking, corrupt […] Read more »
Wayne Yang demystifies the concept of Asian blogs and how and why they are becoming a vibrant part of the conversation. Hi article appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle this AM. He quotes Firda Beka, who now lives in Ontario, and writes a popular blog, Weblog […] Read more »
Toshiba had introduced a 0.85 inch 2 GB drive at 2005 CES in January, and it has just started shipping it to the market. Will this mean, a mini-mini iPod? Toshiba will begin shipping the 0.85-inch HDD in a 4GB capacity in mid-2005. Storage companies are […] Read more »
Buddy Marc Orchant is all aglow over his new Treo 650 which I have to admit is a very nice smartphone, even if it’s a Palm (ducking). He’s posted his first impressions on his blog and describes how he’s set it up for maximum productivity. One […] Read more »
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