In honor of Earth Day, we’re borrowing from our friends over at Earth2Tech in order to celebrate the infrastructure, gadgets and web sites that can help GigaOMers go green. Whether it’s chips that make your servers run cooler or web sites that will help you cut […] Read more »
PC Advisor, a UK-based magazine, reports that Cisco Systems (CSCO) may phase out its Linksys brand all together, making the company it acquired in March 2003 for $500 million a product category, according to Cisco’s VP of SMB solutions marketing, Rick Moran. Last year, Cisco CEO […] Read more »
By Imran Ali, a founding partner of Carbon Imagineering, a UK-based emerging technologies think tank incubating a number of technology startups as well as contributing expertise to various media properties, including O’Reilly, Corante and Giga Omni Media. Web Worker Daily’s very much been grounded in the […] Read more »
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In filtering through the myriad of WiMax announcements at CTIA, I’m coming away with the feeling that the market for this technology isn’t going to be anywhere near as big as everyone had initially hoped. Sprint, for example, has delayed the launch of its Xohm WiMax […] Read more »
A recent story on news.com identifies the need for awareness by employees of what is acceptable in a public facing personal blog. On the Patent Troll Tracker blog (now hidden from public view), the author just recently identified himself as a Cisco employee. As a result, […] Read more »
Don’t mess with lawyers, and especially don’t poke fun at them for bad behavior or allege that they may have committed improprieties with a court. You’d think Richard Frenkel, a fellow lawyer, would understand this rule, but the Cisco IP director still attacked a few patent […] Read more »
The movement toward blade servers in the enterprise data center has been growing steadily for some time, backed by manufacturers like IBM and HP. But expect to soon see networking giant Cisco Systems enter this market as well, setting themselves up for a tense battle with […] Read more »
“Like a long drink of water after a drought” was how one tech executive described to me the news that former IPO kingpin Frank Quattrone is getting back into the i-banking business. Quattrone earlier this week announced he’s launching the Qatalyst Group, described in lush terms […] Read more »
Just a quick bit of housekeeping here. Not a week goes by of late where either James or I (or both of us) are asked about starting up some jkOnTheRun forums. Truth be told, I think there are already some great platform-based forums out there. Howard […] Read more »
TechCrunch: Google, Microsoft Preparing Bids for Digg ArsTechnica: U.S. Rural Broadband, You Can Get it But You Can’t Afford It Light Reading: Appliance Vendors Don’t Fear Cisco Reuters: Ciena Quarterly Profit; Outlook Beat Expectations Fortune: Re-engineering HP Labs Gizmo News: Apple to Allow VoIP over Wi-Fi Read more »
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I just spent another 20 minutes on the phone with Fujitsu to try and determine if they even know where my P1620 is. The answer in a nutshell- they think they know. They think it’s still in Japan in the factory and they are being told […] Read more »
Acme Packet on Tuesday said it is testing its secure session border control product, with the goal of deploying it in Europe and America before the end of the year, highlighting the growing interest in helping carriers secure and manage the edge of their networks. It […] Read more »
Startup Vidyo took the stage at DEMO today to demonstrate a new approach to videoconferencing, following the announcement of their new offering and a licensing relationship with Cisco Systems. The Hackensack, N.J.-based startup has implemented a newly minted standard, called scalable video coding (SVC), that enables […] Read more »
Dell begins bundling Fonality’s open-source software with its enterprise servers today, its latest gambit to compete in the already-crowded VoIP market — this time targeting companies with 125 employees or fewer. This is fertile ground: Analyst Alan Weckel of research firm Dell ‘Oro Group estimates annual […] Read more »
Intel Executive VP Sean Maloney, at CES here in Las Vegas, said the company will have a “middle-of-[this]-year-release” for its WiMAX PC Card, a device that could help accelerate end users’ embrace of the nascent wireless technology. Despite some recent bumps in the road for WiMAX, […] Read more »
Our friend Steven Nielsen over at PartnerUp , the online network that helps entrepreneurs find co-founders, sent us a handy index he has compiled of all the major mergers and acquisitions of Web startups that took place in 2007. Check it out: Steve’s List of 2007 […] Read more »
The ongoing online video boom is beginning to lift a lot of networking hardware boats. A good example is the accelerated sales of Cisco Systems’ (CSCO) CRS-1 routing platform. The San Jose,Calif.-based giant said today that AT&T is going to buy these monster routers for its […] Read more »
[qi:032] YouTube co-founder Steve Chen during an onstage chat at our NewTeeVee Live conference responded to our questions about video quality by saying that YouTube will boost the quality of the videos, but not at the expense of user experience. Buffering and video playback delays were […] Read more »
[qi:051] Google, has been known to come up with its own technologies when dissatisfied with commercial and/or open source offerings. The company had previously started making its own server hardware. And now it seems the company engineers are building high-speed switches according to its own stringent […] Read more »
[qi:___wimax] [qi:045] Sprint Nextel’s (S) rough patch is turning into a highway from hell. The exit of CEO Gary Forsee, questions about its plans for a WiMAX network and its aborted partnership with Clearwire (CLWR) have provided fertile ground for all sorts of rumors. Rich Tehrani […] Read more »
After being skeptical of WiMAX for quite sometime, Cisco Systems (CSCO) is changing its tune, and has decided to play the WiMAX game. It is doing so by buying Navini Networks for a whopping $330 million in cash and stock. It was apparently one of the […] Read more »
[qi:011] It’s been a bad day for telecom equipment vendors. Cisco Systems’ (CSCO) Brazilian office was raided by that country’s authorities for undisclosed reasons. Local media is suggesting there are “tax issues,” including a potential tax liability (and penalties) of up to $830 million. (If you […] Read more »
I still haven’t gotten around to unpacking from last week’s Virtual Worlds Expo in San Jose, Calif., but I have had time to streamline the biggest takeaways from the conference into a personal top five list: Big Tech Doubles Down on Virtual Worlds: IBM (IBM) announced […] Read more »
[qi:_newteevee] BlackArrow, a San Mateo-based start-up is bringing web inspired ad management system that will help large cable operators like to better monetize their ad-inventories and goose up their revenues. The stealth mode company has also announced $17 million in new venture capital money from Cisco […] Read more »
Howcast appears to be another young startup coming from ex-Googlers. The company, with offices in New York and San Francisco, says it is both producing content and building a social portal, and various hints gleaned from its online job ads point to a focus on instructional […] Read more »
The funniest thing on YouTube right now isn’t the latest installment from Smosh, but the meta-ironic actions of a certain litigious content megalopoly in issuing takedown notices for content it doesn’t even have a clear claim to own. Christopher Knight produced some humorously campy commercials for […] Read more »
Remember when computers didn’t have internet access? When it was fun to say “five and a quarter” or brag about having a hard drive. One of the things I remember most was staying up into the night, fascinated with the thick manuals that came with the […] Read more »
Ugh. I’m getting the integrated 3G itch again. When I last took my Samsung Q1P apart, I saw that I could remove the WiFi module and likely replace it with an EV-DO module. I don’t think there’s room for an HSDPA module due to the required […] Read more »
Julie has a review of the LapDawg wooden laptop stand and it looks as though it helps keep the heat away from you. Most lapdesk accessories I’ve used often transfer the notebook’s heat to my lap, but the LapDawg is fully adjustable and actually never touches […] Read more »
Jackson West over on NewTeeVee takes Netflix Watch Now for a spin, and comes back with an almost thumbs up. “It feels almost identical to browing the ‘free on-demand’ section on Comcast at my parents’ house,” he says. Sort of what I thought, except Comcast seems […] Read more »
Former offices of IBM Corp. offices have been rewired for broadband and are at the epicenter of a “Digital Dutchess” initiative, which hopes to turn Dutchess County in Hundson Valley, NY into a tech hub. I often wonder, how many of these tech-hubs can we have […] Read more »
It’s Friday and where else would we start but with a hand cranked universal remote control. You know you should be exercising instead of sitting in your easy chair watching TV and now you can do that and still get a good workout. The Clone RC […] Read more »
The big news this morning in the wireless world, Symbian licensing Microsoft’s ActiveSync technology which allows Symbian-based products to interact better with Microsoft Exchange servers. Russell Beattie worries about the potential problems for Symbian. No one wins in deals with Microsoft (except Microsoft). I’m not sure […] Read more »
Adelphia Communications will soon go on the auction block, and will likely attract many buyers, according to this report. Apart from the usual suspects, Comcast and Time Warner, many expect private equity firms such as Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity to get into the action. […] Read more »
BBC reports that efforts are currently underway to add more oomph to WiFi, and two competing technologies are proposing to get the data rates of over 500 megabits per second. The battling technologies, are called WWise and TGn Sync, and are backed by two different sets […] Read more »
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