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 »
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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 »
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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 »
After we reported the Google problems yesterday, David Krane of Google, pointed out that the outage was for about 15 minutes or so. Given that the company had sales of $1.256 billion in the previous quarter, or about $581,481 an hour, apparently the company lost about […] Read more »
Qwest, still smarting from the beating it got chasing MCI, hasn’t given up hope. If enough MCI shareholders revolt at the deal being offered by Verizon, CEO Richard Notebaert would mind taking another run at the company. “One always needs to keep an open mind. Every […] Read more »
SBC is all set to take on the local city/muni governments as it plans to roll out its IPTV service over next 18 months. The company has been running into head winds of federal and state regulations for cable television franchises that dictate what is offered […] Read more »
We are no different than any other industry. You have good years … and suddenly demand falls off, and there are more companies, there are more sellers than there are buyers for technology. The San Francisco Chronicle Read more »
Nick Bradbury (FeedDemon) posts about a visit to his doctor and the utility he saw using Tablet PCs. It seems his doctor had Tablet PCs in all the rooms and did all patient documentation in real time on the Tablet screen. The coolest part- his doctor […] Read more »
Recap: 6:13PM PST: Google was not hacked, but instead had a DNS problem. For some readers the site was redirecting to the SoGoSearch page. That continues to fox me, and I plan to investigate further. All services have been restored. I find it amazing: Google is […] Read more »
Brian, a good pal of mine, is a big show-off. Every time I meet him for spicy Hunan food, he brags about his Blackberry 7100, and how cool it is to be able to manage his email on the go, and calendaring and all that stuff. […] Read more »
Sramana Mitra writes about Peter Redford’s new experiement in book publishing called Browse. Authors submit their manuscripts to this portal, and work with affiliated editors, content and service providers like distribution agents to produce the book. I imagine this is the next evolution of the print-on-demand […] Read more »
Just because its from Google, and has a fancy name, doesn’t mean you need it. Google says its web accelerator is designed to be used with broadband. Excuse me – do I need to accelerate my browsing experience if I have broadband. Makes the whole software […] Read more »
Given all the hoopla around Google’s Web Accelerator, especially with the privacy fears and application problems, why isn’t waiting to pause and ask the question: what’s the big deal? After all Google really did not break any new ground here – its not a new radical […] Read more »
With over $400 million in funding, Vonage clearly has everyone’s attention. It has over 500,000 subscribers (though no idea about the churn rate) and is ramping up to double that number by end of the year. This at a time when the e911 problems are threatening […] Read more »
First a death in Texas, and now another one in Florida, this e911 is going to become a hot button issue in the coming days, especially for Vonage, which has become the public face of the VoIP technology. This report says that a Volusia County, Florida […] Read more »
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