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 »
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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 »
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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 »
Juniper bought Peribit, so Cisco will buy Riverbed, or so says Light Reading Read more »
The networking giant reports Tuesday after the market closes. Expected to bring in sales of around $6.16 billion in revenues and 22 cents a share in earnings. Notable things to watch in their conference call – Juniper’s recent acquisitions and their potential impact in the enterprise […] Read more »
First she complains about illegal music downloads, and when Steve Jobs fixes the problem with iPod and iTunes, she starts whining about why she can’t buy music from other places. Oh get a real job, maybe that will teach you how the capitalist system works. Read more »
Ben Charmy thinks after investing “$1.6 billion into VoIP during the past four years, it’s time for venture capital firms to look elsewhere to invest such large sums.” Sun Rocket is looking to raise another $15 million, but even that may not be enough. Vonage envy […] Read more »
Apple today updated their popular music jukebox software – iTunes – to version 4.8. This new version has introduced several new features: > Video Support – iTunes now plays QuickTime movies (a few screenshots at Apple Insider) > iPod Contact/Calendar Sync – You can now easily […] Read more »
Consumer broadband lines grew 45% to 131 million world wide, with sales of around $39 billion, but the revenues from consumer broadband related services like VoIP, music and video nearly doubled to $6.9 billion, says Point Topic. Read more »
Or so says ABI Research, as we continue to see the return of forecasts, that may or may not be true. Siemens SX-66, Nokia Communicator 9500 and a handful others are the only units currently available. Read more »
The new sign of digital snobbery – wireless penetration. Telegeography has put together a list which is quite a read. At the end of end of 2004 there were ten countries had 100% penetration, with tiny Luxembourg topping the charts with a staggering 135%. All that […] Read more »
RIM people tell me that they now have 3 million users, last six months bringing in a cool million, Great news for the company, but just wanted to do a little valuation check on the company. Stock market values RIM at $13.04 billion, or roughly $4347 […] Read more »
I’ve seen a lot of things…but this is just crazy. It looks as though Apple is now dispensing iPod mini’s like hotcakes…literally. Someone in the Atlanta Airport spotted what could be labeled an Apple Store-mini. It’s a vending machine that dispenses iPod mini’s and shuffles. Just […] Read more »
How good is a product review that sells the product before it is even written? That’s what happened to me. I told a pal of mine from Philly that I was reviewing the Etymotic Research 6isolator Earphones. He flies on business about 120,000 miles per year […] Read more »
Her new blog venture is getting a lot of publicity today. Good luck, but in the blog world brand names, or celebrities don’t matter. I mean do I need political advise from John Cusack for godsake? If celebrity blogging worked, then we would also be listening […] Read more »
The true road warrior often needs to carry a printer along for knocking out those hardcopy prints of documents or even photos and there are not that many printers to choose from that are truly light, small and capable. PC World has published an article that […] Read more »
PalmOne has finally announced that it is going to release LifeDrive, now renamed, Mobile Manager within a month. Great news, especially if you didn’t know that it was coming. Basically it is a hard drive with Palm OS that does a bunch of things – like […] Read more »
Lee Gomes, in his column today in the Wall Street Journal says that the death of the folders is highly exaggerated. Google wants to do away with the whole concept of folders, and subfolders (Gmail for example!). Others believe that the rise of TAGS could be […] Read more »
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 »
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 »
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