You are on your way home, hit the Mickey D drivethru with the good intention of waiting until you get home to dive into the bag. Traffic’s slow, nothing to do, and finally the aroma of those golden fries wafts up to your now very hungry […] Read more »
This past Wednesday, Joe Kraus, founder of JotSpot stopped by at Business 2.0 office. While he was meeting up with Michael Copeland, senior writer at the magazine who covers venture capital, I popped in for a few minutes to say hello. Amongst various things that were […] Read more »
Time Warner Cable, while not as flashy as Comcast or not as spectacular as Cablevision is having a whopper of a time with its VoIP service, according to Sam Howe, the operator’s SVP of marketing for voice services. He was making these remarks at a CableLabs […] Read more »
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CableLabs gave its annual update on many cable related technologies but the focus this year was PacketCable 2.0, CableCards and Docsis 3.0. A theme that emerged out of the meeting was the cable companies are likely to drag their feet on cable cards, and are likely […] Read more »
RSS is by the way, no longer the new black because VC funds are being established to capitalize on RSS. Where have I read this script before? Oh wait, Java fund! Nevertheless – I am yet to see a fully-baked RSS business model, which can make […] Read more »
I have now jumped on the podcasting bandwagon. I am kicking off Omcasts with a series of interviews with some of the senior executives at telecom/broadband companies and perhaps as I gain more confidence, I would perhaps do more regular podcasts. This is a way to […] Read more »
The techADDICTION Show #14 (MP3 – 21.1MB – 61min) LISTEN HERE Kevin and I are happy to present this 14th edition of techADDICTION, the podcast all about mobile gadgety techno-geek stuff. In today’s show we talk about the Handango Partner Summit I recently attended in Miami […] Read more »
I a team full of posers, Sheff is the new “old” Yankee, and if he is traded, well I am going to root for my being 24 again, and go back to cricket. But seriously, if rest of the team had this much passion, Yanks won’t […] Read more »
USA TODAY reporter Kevin Maney asks Ralph Oman, an intellectual property lawyer at the Washington, D.C., law firm Dechert, about the likely survivors in the P2P world in the wake of of the MGM-Grokster decision. Kazaa and eDonkey are at risk, but Bit-Torrent and iMesh safe […] Read more »
We’ve all been there, fidgeting, bored, wondering when this presentation will ever end. Very few people know how to use PowerPoint effectively so that the audience is engaged and actually listen to the presenter. One person who does know how to do this is Michael Hyatt […] Read more »
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Online PIMs have gained in popularity of late and of all the ones I have checked out Backpack looks to be the most useful, at least for me. Backpack works a lot like Getting Things Done in that you keep all your items for a given […] Read more »
USB Micro Drives are starting to pop up all over but none with a more innovative form factor than the Imation USB Micros Hard Drive. The USB cable folds over and plugs into the drive for storage, making it look like a little padlock. Nice secure […] Read more »
You can find those little USB key chain drives everywhere and they have gotten so cheap, even free at tech trade shows, that I have accumulated a few of them at varying memory capacities. I have mentioned in the past that some people use them as […] Read more »
Juniper Networks’ Marketing VP Christine Heckart has joined the MTV (Microsoft TV) as new general manager of marketing. MTV is buying CH’s telecom contacts I guess, realizing that they can’t do it alone. More Read more »
Business 2.0 : As phones become increasingly complex, the industry must make them easier to use, says Pertti Korhonen, chief technology officer for Nokia (NOK). I sat down with Korhonen this week to sound him out on the industry and its future. He also talked about iPod […] Read more »
Citizens Wireless will deploy Flarion’s FLASH-OFDM technology in Blacksburg, Christiansburg and Radford, Virginia, to business and residential consumers. Citizen’s is a Virginia telecom coop. Last week, Digita of Finland chose FLASH-OFDM technology for a countrywide deployment of mobile broadband access. Read more »
Nokia has decided to shut down its very popular mobile lifestyle-technology publication, TheFeature. It is a sad day for the mobile business, but the good news is that at least one of the editor/writers, Carlo Longino, is going to be teaming up with Russell Buckley and […] Read more »
Alien Skin Software has long been one of the coolest software companies out there. I’ve always loved their plug ins for not only how cool they are, but how useful they are as well. The two smokin’ plugs I’m covering today are Eye Candy 5-Nature and […] Read more »
Scripting News: Look, Apple is educating the market, and for that we owe them a lot of gratitude. But they are also educating the users about Apple in a way developers never could. It matters. Eventually dumb users learn, and ask why there’s copy protection, why […] Read more »
Intel thinks WiMAX is the future, Qualcomm thinks otherwise. Cat Fight? More like WWF fight. We know the game is already decided – by the carriers. Techdirt reminds us that initially Intel backed HomeRF. Enough said! via Read more »
Leichtman Research Group: The top cable broadband providers maintain a 6.4 million subscriber advantage over DSL and have a 59% share of the total market versus DSL. Deeply discounted introductory offers again drove a surge in broadband adoption in the first quarter of 2005. In the […] Read more »
Last October, I wrote about an emerging trend – place shifting – in Business 2.0. The concept of watching your television, anywhere, anytime is the next and the most obvious evolution of the time shifting technology popularized (if not completely monetized) by TiVo. Most of the […] Read more »
“It might take 10 years of litigation to get a clear sense of this. That’s 10 years of chilled innovation,” Larry Lessig tells Business Week Online about the far reaching impact of the MGM vs Grokster ruling. I personally feel that the decision is actually a […] Read more »
A lot of people including James Enck and Mr VoIP Abramson have been writing about MCI’s foray into consumer VoIP. Smart sleuthing by one of Net2Phone customer’s has proved without doubt that indeed Net2Phone is powering the MCI VoIP service. He used his Net2Phone log-in information […] Read more »
Nextel will trial IPWireless’ UMTS TD-CDMA mobile broadband solution in Washington, DC and several surrounding areas, marking the first time a major US mobile operator has selected the 3G standard to deliver wireless broadband services. Nextel will deploy the technology in its 2.5 GHz spectrum to […] Read more »
You can’t turn anywhere on the web without reading about iTunes with the new podcast support. I am using it and it works well, as you expect from Apple/ iTunes. What you aren’t seeing mentioned much is the new updated iPod software to take advantage of […] Read more »
Biometric fingerprint readers are extremely useful security devices that still remain easy to use for the consumer. Some security experts have been looking for an alternative since these readers use a single fingerprint that has proven to be spoofable (is that a word?). Enter the BiometricPIN […] Read more »
The reasons I bring this up – this post by Marc, this article in The New York Times, and yesterday someone showed me a little Xeroxed flyer from an angel investor who was handing it out to entrepreneurs looking for funding at a vertical search conference. […] Read more »
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin did not waste time and showed that he is watching out for the interests of phone companies. “We’ll need to move quickly to establish regulatory parity between telephone companies and cable companies that are providing a broadband service,” he told the Wall […] Read more »
Update: Confirmed the news – the dealwith Reliance Infocomm is worth $7 million for 60,000 ports. Veraz Networks, a major VoIP equipment provider is about to set a major deal in India for its media gateway products. The deal is said to be worth around $7 […] Read more »
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Yahoo bought DialPad and perhaps that is an incentive enough for other majors – Google and Microsoft – to make a VoIP play as well. There is word that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Teleo, a smallish VoIP player based in San Francisco. It has […] Read more »
The city of Houston has deployed parking meters near the downtown courhouse district that accepts credit cards and uses WiFi to verify parking customers’ charges. The test is nearing completion and Houston’s CTO Richard Lewis will soon select the vendor for the meters and proceed with […] Read more »
Hewlett-Packard has granted $2.1 million to 25 schools as part of the HP Technology for Teaching Leadership grant program. The program puts Tablet PCs, wireless projectors and cameras in the hands of teachers in the classrooms. Carnegie Mellon University is one of the 25 schools and […] Read more »
Just a little note about the new Podcasts feature in iTunes: it’s really cool. For a while now, I’ve been listening to Leo Laporte’s KFI Radio Podcast, so it really interested me when I found that I could plug in his podcast link into iTunes, and […] Read more »
Martin Thunman, CEO of PacketFront: “The U.S. puts incumbent business interests first … Europe puts the end user first.” Read more »
Like all mac faithful, I downloaded the iTunes 4.9, and checked out the podcast feature. Despite all the hoopla around Podcasts and how are going to be different from radio, well the iTunes 4.9 clearly shows that it is nothing but radio timeshifted. There is ESPN, […] Read more »
I love using speech recognition and watching whole pages of text appear right from my mouth. The speech recognition integrated into the Tablet PC is quite good but there are some simple steps you can take to get the highest accuracy possible so I am presenting […] Read more »
Apple have decided to drop the iPod Photo moniker and make all iPods iPod photos. Read more »
Thanks to Gnomedex rumors that Apple would be releasing iTunes 4.9 today users have been watching the iTunes download site to see if the new version is available. Wait no longer, it’s out and downloadable for both the Mac and Windows platforms, although on the Windows […] Read more »
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