In the words of great Yogi Berra (Happy 80th Yogi), it ain’t over till its over. Looks like MCI shareholders owning at least 20 percent of the company plan to withhold votes for directors at next week’s annual meeting to protest the board’s decision to accept […] Read more »
Rafat’s mega-empire grows. He has launched ContentSutra a blog for digital media professionals in U.S., Europe and around the world, looking to expand, invest, or better understand the Indian market. Don’t worry – this a workspace friendly site. via PaidContent.org Read more »
Acq-hire – fits nice with my theme of micro-start-ups, that are built, and then flipped. via Read more »
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Now this might come as a surprise to many, but the number of communities with fiber-to-the-home has gone up sharply in past 15 months or so, according to a study by TIA. I am going call these fiberhoods. Research results released today show that fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) […] Read more »
Steve Richards was a man on a mission- his daughter has a medical condition that makes her hands cold, stiff and generally makes it hard for her to haul her books around the school. Steve knew that a Tablet PC with scanned textbooks would make it […] Read more »
For starters, guys I would like to say, that I am not making this up. A San Diego-start-up, Nethercomm Corp., which has no trial partners or no known venture capital backers, is promising that it can deliver up to 10 gigabits per second broadband using natural […] Read more »
Rejoice people, for now you can get a one megabit down/256 kbps up service from MetroFi’s in 75% of Cupertino, California – world famous for being home to Apple Computer. Read more »
Thanks to Wavelength, which is selling a $34.95 a month package, with speeds of upto 1.5 megabits per second. The real reason the service was launched is because Greene County school system gave out “2,000 laptop computers into the hands of students through the Apple iBook […] Read more »
I am sitting in a Chinese restaurant near my house, having just finished a very nice rendition of General Tso’s Chicken, and rocking along with email and web work at over 500 kbps. No, the restaurant doesn’t have WiFi, there’s not even a network showing up […] Read more »
Texas Instruments’ despite its best efforts is not making enough money in the hot market for broadband related chips. Or so was the message at company’s analyst day, according to analysts. But TI wants to change that, and will work on boosting its profitability. For instance, […] Read more »
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Alternatively, how not to do your home page, especially when the world is going all minimalistic. via Read more »
Yahoo Music has resulted in a lot of fuss (most complete coverage on PaidContent) and violent reactions on the stock market. Just would like to point out things which make it a difficult pill to swallow for now – it works only on Windows XP, it […] Read more »
VoIP service provider, Broadvoice recent service outages are the result of an unresolved year old dispute with one of the provider’s carriers, according to a letter of apology to Broadvoice customers by company President & CEO David Epstein. Some believe that carrier is none other than […] Read more »
The fact that we need to use a PC to make our digital portable players – audio and video – become part of our lives is the main reason why the wide-scale adoption hasn’t happened. And perhaps its time for us to cut that umbilical cord. […] Read more »
Information Week quotes Gartner analyst Allen Weiner, “Google’s Web Accelerator will help speed searches via dial-up, but it is unnecessary for broadband users. Web accelerators were hot topics years ago, when many users were surfing the Web via dial-up connections. Today, with the popularity of broadband, […] Read more »
The cool onscreen keyboard for the Sony U that I reviewed a while ago has now been released. UBoard is a user configurable keyboard that can be operated as an onscreen thumb board ad the author has decided to make it available as donation ware. The […] Read more »
SBC, the last holdout has decided that it is going to open its 911 infrastructure to VoIP providers. Verizon, BellSouth and Qwest are pretty much on board. Andy worries about 911 and its impact on Vonage. Read more »
Google, keeping up its tradition of surprising everyone with out-of-the-left-field acqusitions have acquired New York-based Dodgeball, which is a mobile hook-up service. The two-person start-up is part of un-VC efforts that got rewarded. “As a two-person team, Alex and I have taken dodgeball about a far […] Read more »
Talk about having a really bad day! Yahoo’s entry into the music business pummeled Napster – its stock skidded 30% for the day. What hasn’t helped the matters is that despite rising revenues, Napster is losing money faster than Jason Giambi is losing his bat speed. […] Read more »
VoIP will spill over into mainstream US residential household and businesses by 2006, according to a new eMarketer report. Currently, the number of US VoIP subscribers is small, with varying estimates predicting between 2.8 million and 6.7 million residential VoIP lines in use by the end […] Read more »
Pioneer Long Distance, a subsidiary of Pioneer Telephone Cooperative of Oklahoma is all set to launch an IPTV service over its network, and will soon offer triple play packages to 33,000 homes. They will be using technology from Entone, which makes personal video content hardware and […] Read more »
“There were a lot of people who jumped in — I think the barriers to entry were pretty low — but I think a lot of them are now running after shrinking dollars,” Katie Griffin, VOIP analyst at The Yankee Group in Light Reading. Light Reading […] Read more »
I received the following email from Ken Hong, a jkOnTheRun reader and podcast listener who has been working in Asia for the past few years. Ken wants to know where mobile technology is heading and why he does not see any Tablet PCs nor PDAs throughout […] Read more »
Secunia has just issued an alert for major security hole in iTunes. They are advising, upgrade to 4.8. Read more »
David Isenberg writes, “Maybe there’s a better name for the practice of push polling. Maybe it should be called, “Fraudulently, deceptively and systematically planting damaging misinformation.” On the other hand, considering one slang meaning of “push,” maybe not. The opponents of Lafayette, Louisiana’s municipal FTTH project […] Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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