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 »
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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 »
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 »
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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 »
All right folks, go ahead and pre-order. Read more »
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 »
The Tablet PC Show #14 (MP3 – 22.9MB – 65min)LISTEN HERE I am back from Miami and Marc and I had a wonderful Sunday chat about all things Tablet. We discuss hands on with the Motion LE1600 and the Sahara i213 and how Handango is bringing […] Read more »
There’s an interesting survey over at MacWorld where they interviewed some people about their thoughts on the PowerPC to Intel switch, the effects on sales, what the new machines will be like, and how well the migration will go. Read more »
With iTunes 4.9, you can now browse and subscribe to podcasts from within the iTunes Music Store. Podcasts are frequently updated radio-style shows downloadable over the Internet. You can also transfer podcasts to iPod, for listening on the go. iTunes 4.9 weighs in at a 9.9mb […] Read more »
It’s already been all over the usual news outlets, but just in case you had missed it, here’s a quickie to remind you of Google’s Beta Video Upload Program. While it had been out for quite a few months with a Windows uploader program, they more […] Read more »
At many points in our life, we end up in relationships which are dysfunctional, and mutually destructive. We are well aware that we should put an end to it, but we still hope against hope, that things just might work out. But in real life they […] Read more »
Oddpost, the company Yahoo bought for about $30 million for is DHTML goodness is finally baring its teeth as the new Yahoo Mail. I can finally get mine to work on a Mac and on a Firefox. I wrote about these guys in Business 2.0 as […] Read more »
Its like Toblerone except bigger. Engadget reported, that it was going to be available at CompUSA. Adding a little bit more to the store-story – its going to be at Best Buy as well. What I wrote about them in the past is here. Read more »
Mark Cuban on Grokster decision: In the business world, one way to evaluate the financial importance of news is by watching to see how Wall Street responds to it….There wasnt a Kaboom, there wasnt a whisper in the market. In other words, no one cared. The […] Read more »
Given that a lot of people have expressed shock, awe and outrage at the US Supreme Court Decision in the MGM versus Grokster, I decided perhaps it should be a good idea to plough through the 55-page tome. There is a lot of hand-wringing using all […] Read more »
VoIP bloggers are all abuzz about something called JaJah. Its is supposed to be a Skype Killer – except it doesn’t look like it can kill anything. Skype Journal is showing some skepticism – but I think its like April Fool’s Joke in June! There is […] Read more »
The MGM vs Grokster, might as well be Sony versus Sony. MGM is owned by Sony. Grokster argued that it was not doing anything wrong, and cited the Sony Beta Max fair use ruling! So in a sense it was Sony (and its acolytes) were arguing […] Read more »
Somebody should just spank Heartland for spreading FUD, don’t you think! via Read more »
Minneapolis’ request for proposals to build a WiFi network has attracted more than 20 applications. If this model works, then municipalities have a better and low risk way of realizing their broadband dreams. “They have an RFP that is very conceptual rather than very specific. It’s […] Read more »
No Shit, this damn Internet thing turned out to be bigger than anyone thought. But then it is CNN – confused (by) news network! Read more »
Macs, as we all know, are the best thing for video editing. But what about TV watching and TiVo-like tasks? Before I used a Mac, my Windows computer had an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro PCI video card with 8MB of VRAM. (Remember when that was something cool?) […] Read more »
Telia, the Swedish telecom incumbent says to hell with minute rate plans and has started to offer fixed price service to all its customer. For $10 a month, you can sign-up for a service that will allow you to make phone calls at 8 cents a […] Read more »
Cablevision is all set to launch a 50 megabits/second service to its customers in Oyster Bay, New York. The company is using Narad Networks’ Narad Broadband Access Network technology which can deliver upto 100 megabit/s speeds on HFC networks. I have written about Narad in the […] Read more »
Playlist says “feedback in the BadApple forums indicates that the plug-in is anything but good” Read more »
LoJack, the car-theft prevention technology is coming to a laptop near you. Absolute Software has licnesed the brand name LoJack and will release a software product called LoJack for laptops. Basically what it does is embed a special agent in a computer’s BIOS and when that […] Read more »
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