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Skype to FCC: Keep Internet Open & Neutral
Skype, a big proponent of open networks and net neutrality, in a filing today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), argued that net neutrality was “about growing the broadband ecosystem and preserving a borderless, open Internet” and said it would “promote investment, jobs and innovation.” The company said that it “welcomes the Commission’s focus on... »
In the First Week, Google May Have Sold 20,000 Nexus One Phones
When I spoke with Google’s mobile boss, Andy Rubin, he said that Google would be happy to sell about 150,000 Nexus One devices. That number, he said, would be enough for the Google Phone to get in front of a majority of American phone buyers who might want to take a look at it.... »
E-Bond Trading Platform to Create Wider Investor: Syed Salim Raza
Governor, State Bank of Pakistan, Syed Salim Raza on Monday said that Electronic Bond Trading Platform will enhance investors’ base of the sovereign debt market as it would attract investors from the non-banking sector as well resulting in higher liquidity in the government securities. Speaking at the launching ceremony of this bond here at State... »
Winners at the Crunchies: DropBox, Foursquare, Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook Connect Vitamin Water Bottle Facebook and Zynga were among the winners at the Crunchies 2009 awards, held last evening in San Francisco’s Herbst Theater. The third annual award ceremony, co-hosted by TechCrunch, VentureBeat and GigaOM, saw a mix of new and old technology companies share the limelight in front... »
Will 2010 Finally be the Year of Location?
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its... »
How To Get A Google Nexus One EVERYWHERE Now
Early adopter? Android fan? Google lover? Ok, You want a Nexus One, the new, powerful, Google phone, right? And you are frustrated since you live in a country where Google doesn’t ship, correct? Many of you, me included, get the following message when try to access http://www.google.com/phone Well, a guy found a pretty easy way to... »
Verizon CEO Paints Gloomy Picture on Jobs
The economy’s hit bottom, right? We’re starting to see small improvements, right? Not so fast.Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg told an investor conference this week that unemployment numbers aren’t necessarily keeping up with the generally somewhat-optimistic economic outlook. Seidenberg told the group that he considers the struggling job market to be …(148 words) Related Topics: conference,... »
Crunchies Sold Out, But AfterParty Tix Still Available
The Crunchies, awards that celebrate start-ups, entrepreneurs and everything Silicon Valley, are sold out. The Crunchies, now in their third year, are co-hosted by TechCrunch, VentureBeat and us. The awards gala is followed by an after party held at City Hall’s Grand Rotunda, across from the main event venue. There are 100 tickets available... »
What Palm Needs to Do to Bounce Back
The last few weeks have been dominated by speculation over two things: the Google Phone and the Apple tablet. One is now a reality. The other is still a myth. And beyond this twin-headed meme, attention has been paid to little else. Forgotten is the fact that BlackBerry is still outselling its rivals and... »
Cloud Telephony Explained And Dissected At ITEXPO East
If you want to get a better idea of what “cloud telephony” is, or just want to start discovering what it could mean for your business, you can’t miss Cloud Communications Summit in Miami taking place on January 20-22. Organized by pal Thomas Howe, better known as Mr Mashup, this summit wants to give you... »
Aircel Delhi Launches SMS Pack, 20000 SMS at Rs.79
Aircel, the 5th largest GSM mobile service operator today announce the launches New SMS Pack (Bonus Recharge) priced at Rs.79 for its prepaid subscribers in Delhi and NCR circles. The new SMS Bonus… ] Related... »
Verizon: Tablet Computers Could Be Hot Sellers in 2010
Verizon Wireless is eyeing tablet computers, often called slate computers, as one of the most promising emerging devices for the carrier to sell in 2010.”I do think that slates are going to be emerging in rapid succession in 2010,” Brian Ullem, head of emerging devices at Verizon Wireless, told CNET …(125 words) Related Topics: call,... »
Verizon: Tablet Computers Could Be Hot Sellers in 2010
Verizon Wireless is eyeing tablet computers, often called slate computers, as one of the most promising emerging devices for the carrier to sell in 2010.”I do think that slates are going to be emerging in rapid succession in 2010,” Brian Ullem, head of emerging devices at Verizon Wireless, told CNET …(125 words) ... »
It’s Droid, Droid, Baby
A month ago, I reported that Motorola and Verizon were on track to sell a million Droids in the fourth quarter of 2009. Not only are they closer to that milestone, but it seems Droid is also the most dominant Android phone on the market today. Even though the overall Android app market grew 20... »
Cablevision Wi-Fi Cloud Is Getting Easier, Smarter & Busier
Cablevision, the Bethpage, N.Y.-based cable operator, has quietly soft-launched a new automated sign-in process that allows its customers to log into its Wi-Fi cloud that covers many busy Long Island and New York City venues such as Madison Square Gardens, Radio City Music Hall and Long Island MacArthur Airport. (The network also serves southern... »
My New Productivity Tool: 17″ Macbook Pro
This year Santa has been generous. Very generous. So he decided to bring me a brand new 17″ Macbook Pro. I was actually very close to start my search for a new laptop, but Santa intercepted my thoughts and was faster than me. Wife-Santa did a great job. The 17″ Macbook Pro was exactly what... »
What Happened in Tech This Week
Twitter bought Mixer Labs (12.23.2009) View 2. HTC became a smart phone hero (12.23.2009) View O2/Telefónica Buys Jajah for $207M (12.23.2009) View Blippy launched. View App analytics firms, Flurry and Pinch Media merged. View Google released its Open manifesto. View Incubators made a return. View Twitter might actually be profitable. View MyTown proved to be bigger than FourSqure and GoWalla. View In addition,... »
The Best of Both Worlds Mobilink Infinity WiMAX & Blackberry Bundle Offer
Now, with the purchase of every new BlackBerry® from Mobilink, you get a FREE connection (no activation charges) to Mobilink Infinity WiMAX Broadband Internet service. So whether you are indoors or out and about, you are always uncompromisingly connected to your world. All you have to do is sign up for the WiMAX service when... »
RIM Has A Problem
Last night around 7 PM or so I caught a tweet that made me check my Blackberry. Yes indeed, there must be an outage. Then another tweet came in. Then another, and another. All the while RIM was silent. This is not the first time that Research In Motion was off the air and I don't... »
Startup Time at IT Expo
While the holiday season is getting into full swing it is hard to believe that we’re now less than a month away from the Winter Edition of IT Expo. To me it only feels like yesterday when Rich Tehrani and his team put on one of the best telecom events they ever have in... »
How Facebook Squeezes Maximum Performance
Facebook has more than 350 million active users. Digest that for a second. Can you imagine how many servers would be required working in a distributed fashion with redundancy to handle 350 million users? Well to answer my own question, Facebook has more than 30,000 servers and adds about 10,000 new servers every 18... »
Positron Telecommunication’s Innovative Asterisk-on-a-Card
In the January issue of Internet Telephony Magazine is a TMC Labs review of Positron Telecommunication Systems V114 analog PCI “Asterisk-on-a-card”. They also have an ISDN version and a E1/T1 version. I thought I would share the review here since this is a very innovative product. It is pretty cool to have... »
8 Years Later, the Blogging Goes On
It’s now been eight years since I wrote the first post on the blog version of GigaOM. Up until Dec. 13, 2001, GigaOM was nothing more than a repository for my previously published articles and résumé. But with a little help from Ben Trott, co-creator of Movable Type (and co-founder of Six Apart), I... »
Got Old VoIP Equipment? Check out this VoIP Buyback Program
Got some old VoIP phones lying around and want to upgrade to some newfandangled executive phone sporting a color LCD and video playback? Or how bout an upgrade to an HD IP phone? Well, VoIP Supply has your back with their buyback program. tomorrow they are launching their Reclaim VoIP equipment buyback program.... »
Microsoft Cedes to Europe’s Antitrust Regulators
Windows users in Europe soon will get to choose which browser they want on their computers.Microsoft Corp. has struck a deal with Europe’s antitrust regulators; it will let consumers choose which browser they want installed. Options will include Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome or Apple’s Safari.The agreement takes effect …(102 words) ... »
HotSpots Are Hot
Let’s face it, the idea of WiFi by the major mobile operators in the USA has been more trial and error, or when they chose to explore it, for the most part it was more like seeing someone dip their toes in the water in the past, as in reality only T-Mobile and to... »
Blackberry Twitter Clients Smackdown: Seesmic, SocialScope, Tweeteev, Twixtreme, UberTwitter
As many of you should know, I’m kinda of Twitter addict and the device from which I use it the most is my Blackberry Bold. For this reason I tried all the available twitter clients for BB and today I’d like to share my opinion on the five I think are the best available... »
Tying Up Loose Ends: Microsoft, Yahoo, Nortel & Avaya
Minutes after the U.S. stock markets started winding down for the weekend, a few technology giants made some announcements that amount to nothing more than tying up loose ends. Avaya got the go-ahead from Canada to buy Nortel’s PBX business for $900 million in cash. Microsoft & Yahoo finalized their search agreement that was first announced... »
Google & Twitter Friend Connect, Facebook Yawns
In the battle to become the ultimate identity broker on the web, Facebook with its Facebook Connect feature has a clear — and significant — lead. Google, on the other hand, is an also-ran here and its partnership with Twitter, announced last night, doesn’t really change anything, especially when you juxtapose it with the... »
What Makes Silicon Valley Special? Eternal Optimism of the Innovative Mind
For some odd reason, December makes me more pensive than usual, prompts me to focus not so much on the fleeting minutiae of life but on the big picture. I have no idea why this happens — but it happens, every year. And as a result, I start to sleep less and think more.... »