Stories for Jul. 2, 2005

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Apparently there are some legislators who are contemplating a broadband tax which like the Universal Service Fund is going to help grow broadband in rural areas. Nearly 62 US House of Representatives from both parties have signed on for this initiative. I for one, have no […] Read more »

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You may not know it, but VoIP industry is rife with fraud and is destroying little start-ups. LiveVoIP was undone by scams, says Voxilla in an excellent investigative report. The problem is getting only bigger and has now affected non-VoIP players like Western Union. Read more »

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Nearly 3000 beta-testers in North Carolina’s Research Triangle area, who were using Nextel’s Flarion-based wireless broadband service are going to find that their connections are no long working. Nextel has switched off the trials, leaving many happy users disappointed. “There’s a lot of sad customers,” said […] Read more »

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Michael Robertson, never the one to take things lying down, and always willing to promote the open standards is betting that his SIPphone’s Gizmo Project will become a worthy competitor to Skype, which has always been a closed format. Business 2.0 editor-at-large, Erick Schonfeld, believes that […] Read more »

Stories for Jul. 1, 2005

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The SIP protocol, by its open nature, enables various providers to interoperate and compete for your loyalty, so you might shop for SIP services the exact same way you’ll shop for e-mail services. This open protocol also enables every industrious Software Author in the World to build best-of-breed real-time communications tools. These tools are coming. For all platforms. Mac. Linux. Windows. Developers are working around the clock to be the first-to-market with the next Skype-killer, in a race to earn your loyalty. Read more »

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Spamming might be a deplorable and annoying practice, but mobile operators are willing to risk the ire of consumers because it acts as a big boost for their bottom line. “The more text messages received and sent by a subscriber, the more money the operator makes,” […] Read more »

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My affection for mind mapping is well documented and while I am happy with the program I use many readers have let me know they are happily using a free mind mapping program, FreeMind.  FreeMind is a totally free mind mapping program that is available for […] Read more »

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In Hollywood, when you are caught with your pants down, and you happen to be married, well that results in acrimony, and a big fat alimony check followed by deafening silence, especially when you are supposedly a macho star who happens to be light in the […] Read more »

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ZD Net Australia points out that “there is a 50 percent chance your unprotected Windows PC will be compromised within 12 minutes of going online.” According to security vendor Sophos nearly 8000 viruses hit the net, and it is only going to get worse. via Read more »

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I had a conversation with Eric Mack last night during which he mentioned he was looking for a good external battery solution to carry him through his day.  I sent him word about the PowerPad 300 because as external batteries go you just can’t get any […] Read more »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

Stories for Jun. 30, 2005

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

Stories for Jun. 29, 2005

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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 »

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“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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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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