Stories for May. 11, 2005

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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“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 »

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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 »

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Secunia has just issued an alert for major security hole in iTunes. They are advising, upgrade to 4.8. Read more »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

Stories for May. 10, 2005

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Apple have been granted a patent application for a Tablet device, complete with images and descriptive text. The patent compares it directly to other Windows based devices such as HP’s tablet PC lineup. The images show that the device has a touch screen, and is of […] Read more »

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Cisco reported sales of $6.19 billion and profits of $1.4 billion, or 21 cents per share blowing past analyst estimates. Routers saw some steady growth, but it was the IP telephony group that “blew past” the $1 billion run rate, John Chambers said. Storage, optical and […] Read more »

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Mobile Music Blog, actually had the real photos. It just took a long time to get confirmation. Apparently, the software will be released within weeks, possibly by July! Read more »

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First they went out and snagged British Telecom, and today comes news that Huawei is about to announce a major deal with Spain’s Telefonica is going to be buying its gear. Despite being dismissed as low end provider by most US equipment majors, Chinese upstart is […] Read more »

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With this week’s release of iTunes 4.8, the possibility of an iTunes Movie Store edges just a little closer, with tantalising scraps of evidence suggesting if not an explicit precursor to full scale digital film distribution then at least a dabbling in the waters at the […] Read more »

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Ross Mayfield tells the Socialtext story, minus the drama of course. Sorry, this one is not going to turn into a web-based reality series, but still is a damn good read. Read more »

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Talk about regretting the upgrade to Tiger. Computer is slow, the email is acting like its got arthritis and well, what can I say. ISync, which was working till yesterday, stopped working with my Nokia 6620 for no apparent reason. Tried to reset the phone, and […] Read more »

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Okay fine, their portable media players are not exactly the best looking products on the market. And they are not the ones with best user interface. But you can’t deny that Archos, does know how to jump ahead of the technology curve. One of the first […] Read more »

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Sun Microsystems decides that perhaps it is time to buy into this whole remote access thing. You know giving access to folks to corporate applications via a browser. So it buys Tarantella, for about $25 million. Not to be left behind, Microsoft decides to make an […] Read more »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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