Allan Tumolillo, COO of Probe Financial Associates, who is now becoming quite well known for his radical missives believes that there maybe some dark clouds looming over Comcast. He warns people should not get too obsessed with company’s first quarter earnings, and its revenue per customer. […] Read more »
On paper the merger of SBC & AT&T would have spelt doom for Covad. After all AT&T was a big buyer of Covad’s DSL lines and was now part of SBC which itself has a pretty hefty footprint. Instead it is proving to be a big […] Read more »
PaidContent.org points to a News.com scoop that Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding downloadable songs and music data from across the Internet. “It makes sense because Yahoo’s got access to all this music to begin with,” said Gary Stein, an analyst at Jupiter Research. […] Read more »
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For those of who have lived through the bubble of the late 1990s very well know that there is something called dumb money. And in many cases it was the likes of Bain Capital, who were glad to provide that. Hello again … for now they […] Read more »
I have been in correspondence with a company that has been working on getting a working version of Linux on the Sony U. The problem they immediately ran into was the lack of a Linux driver for the Sony touchscreen, so they did what true geeks […] Read more »
05.05.005 comes only once in 1000 years and coinciding with Thursday (5th Day of the week) comes only once in 7000 yrs… via Drudge Read more »
As I had hinted at earlier this week, Vonage did go out and raise new money – $200 million or so, but its not from venture capitalists. Instead the company is doing a private sale of securities, according to SEC filings. Since its a paper filing, […] Read more »
Okay today is the day you go loco, drink too much tequila. But you don’t start a day early, or too soon. I think Motorola’s pricing strategy for OjO is just that – loco. (I had ranted about this earlier as well!) I mean what are […] Read more »
What you read is not what you blog? I get that feeling after reading Cory Doctorow’s comment over on Boing Boing about Bruce Sterling’s Wired column this month He takes an amazing, science-fictional view of how an internetworked world is likely to upend the creaking, corrupt […] Read more »
Wayne Yang demystifies the concept of Asian blogs and how and why they are becoming a vibrant part of the conversation. Hi article appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle this AM. He quotes Firda Beka, who now lives in Ontario, and writes a popular blog, Weblog […] Read more »
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Toshiba had introduced a 0.85 inch 2 GB drive at 2005 CES in January, and it has just started shipping it to the market. Will this mean, a mini-mini iPod? Toshiba will begin shipping the 0.85-inch HDD in a 4GB capacity in mid-2005. Storage companies are […] Read more »
Buddy Marc Orchant is all aglow over his new Treo 650 which I have to admit is a very nice smartphone, even if it’s a Palm (ducking). He’s posted his first impressions on his blog and describes how he’s set it up for maximum productivity. One […] Read more »
Want to know what having a new Toshiba Portege M200 is like? Check out PigPog’s post where he describes how he’s using his new Tablet PC and how it’s made a difference in his work. It’s amazing how new Tablet owners are affected by the addition […] Read more »
Just when you thought that dial-up is going to the way of the Yankees, here comes Netzero (owned by United Online) with a technology they are calling “3G” that is faster than (obviously) AOL’s dial-up and uses compression hacks to give users an “instant” Internet experience. […] Read more »
I have been watching the countdown as Tablet PC Post has approached the 100,000 download mark and want to wish Loren, Lora and Layne congratulations for passing that tremendous milestone. Tablet PC Post is the best source for Tablet PC software and to have so many […] Read more »
Frequent visitors to jkOnTheRun are aware that I recently have received the honor of an MVP award from Microsoft in the Tablet PC category. The award is greatly appreciated and one I take very seriously, in the spirit in which it was given. Receiving MVP status […] Read more »
VoIP service revenues will grow from $1.3 billion in 2004 to $19.9 billion in 2009, Infonetics Research’s latest report, VoIP Services annual market size and forecast for North America. That’s less than 1% of the total Voice revenues in the US. So much for getting excited […] Read more »
Rapid changes in the hospital and medical IT infrastructure means that hospitals and medical care providers will become major consumers of bandwidth in the coming decade, according to Akbar Kara, former Director of Network at NYP/ColumbiaU Med Center. Most medical/health records are becoming electronic, and hospitals […] Read more »
One thing to watch for when upgrading to Tiger is to make sure that the applications you absolutely, positively need to do your job are working on 10.4. One such application for my work is Cisco’s VPN client. Right now, it’s not working on 10.4. The […] Read more »
In what could arguably be the first city wide Voice-over-WiFi deployment just went live in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Ecquity, a CLEC is now going to offer a $29.95 a month service over Azulstar’s metro-wide Wi-Fi wireless network. (Azulstar Networks, based in Grand Haven, Mich., is […] Read more »
Israeli Fixed Wireless equipment provider Alvarion had a really nice day – it had two of its major customers Speakeasy and mPower turned on their Pre-WiMAX networks today. While the future of WiMAX is still up in the air – no one knows who is really […] Read more »
Things are looking pretty bleak for Tapwave‘s Zodiac PDA+Gaming device. The deep discounts being offered on the devices, and game developer Fat Hammer deciding to remove Zodiac from its list of compatible devices, it was only matter of time before Tapwave pulled the plug on its […] Read more »
T-Mobile is not that enamored with 3G. It can’t be – it doesn’t have the spectrum to roll out 3G services, so it is staying focused on cheap voice, and using WiFi as a high speed data option. However, the company is willing to make a […] Read more »
Steve Gillmor has come back to the Tablet and he’s loving it: The most striking aspect of the Tablet 2005 is the speed with which I can move through information. GMail and Rojo still take as much time as before, but I’m absorbing a lot more […] Read more »
The very popular open source instant messaging client for the Mac, known as Adium or “Adium X”, has been brought up to 0.8, very close to its final release. If you don’t already have it, jump over to http://www.adiumx.com, and download it. It’s free, by the […] Read more »
Business 2.0: A decade ago (that’s nearly seven decades in Internet years) a music fiend like me had limited options when it came to finding new, unknown, yet promising musical acts. Reading magazines like Rolling Stone and listening to the radio were the traditional ways to […] Read more »
More fixed wireless news. TowerStream has turned on its wireless broadband service in San Francisco Bay Area. TowerStream has established a Point of Presence (PoP) on top of San Francisco’s Clay Jones building, the highest point on Nob Hill, capable of delivering reliable broadband to organizations […] Read more »
“You can always tell whether you’re on a Mac or on a PC…Just stick your applications in there and see whether they’ll run.” Bill Gates in a chat with Dawn Chmieleski, of San Jose Mercury News. How about if we change it to: “You can always […] Read more »
Red of The Red Ferret Journal found a cool Java bandwidth speed test that shows your internet upload and download speeds graphically and gives you some indication about how good your connection really is. The graph is updated even when the test is running which is […] Read more »
MiniMage has a nice blog that discusses all sorts of IT topics and she gives particular attention in her posts about her Tablet PC and how it helps her in her work. There is a great post on her blog about using Agilix GoBinder in her […] Read more »
Engadget recently got to sit down with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and talk about a number of topics. The interview was run on Engadget in two parts but for Tablet PC owners Part Two, which covered some Tablet PC ground, was the one we were waiting for. […] Read more »
Independent broadband ISP Speakeasy has just launched a pre-WiMAX service in Seattle, and will offer it as a complement to its DSL packages. The company has placed its transmission set-up at Seattle’s Space Needle. Speakeasy is taking orders but service goes commercial next month. More details […] Read more »
On a recent Tablet PC Show co-host Marc Orchant shared a trick he uses to keep his Tablet PC working in emergencies. He discussed using Knoppix Live, a flavor of Linux designed to run directly from CD, to access his Tablet PC in the event some […] Read more »
If you are a student who doesn’t happen to be using OneNote on a notebook computer or a Tablet PC then you might find Lecture Recorder to be just what you are looking for. Lecture Recorder makes it easy to record lectures (or meetings) using any […] Read more »
The demand for broadband is running high all across the planet. Australia carrier Optus just reported its first quarter broadband sales – the company now has a total of 350,000 internet broadband subscribers, up 63,000 from the 4th quarter 2004. Optus’ rival, Telstra has 500,000 subscribers. […] Read more »
University of Michigan has developed Mates, a location based social networking program, that creates buddy lists on your IM based purely on people in your immediate vicinity. Leveraging wireless networks, it can find people in your classrooms, neighborhoods or even in case of Silicon Valley, in […] Read more »
Technology Futurist: Huawei was picked for areas that have already been commoditized due to very high competitive pressures. These low-margin LOBs include broadband access and optical networking (as in the 21 CN case). However, other areas such as softswitching, network intelligence and routing are apparently safe […] Read more »
Qwest, like a jilted lover is acting like all is fine. We all know its not. They are hurting at their very public rejection by an aging diva (MCI) whose jowls have had more botox injections than entire Hollywood star corps. During the course of a […] Read more »
You have to love the Indian ministers and politicians – they can be completely delusional without any artificial mind altering drugs. Dayanidhi Maran, the IT & Communications minister dreams of rolling out cheap broadband to the masses, and wants to grow the broadband user base from […] Read more »
Being of South Asian persuasion (not to mention a big fan of The Lion King) I am a believer in the whole circle of life thing – what is new today will be old tomorrow. It is certainly true in case of the ever evolving world […] Read more »
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