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2010: The Year of Google VoIP?
Could 2010 be the year of Google VoIP? Perhaps. TMC blogger Tom Keating puts some puzzle pieces together and asks if Google VoIP is coming in 2010. He posits that Google’s recently acquired Gizmo5 has a superior client to Google Talk–and might see the original Google Talk phased out and the Gizmo5 software renamed. Keating... »
Twitter May Be Profitable — No, Seriously!
Team Twitter: Biz Stone, Ev Williams & Jack Dorsey. Photo by Om Malik We, like so many others, have joked about Twitter’s non-existent business model and its frothy billion-dollar valuation. Apparently we might have to stop that – at least for now. The San Francisco-based micromessaging company is said to be profitable, according to a report... »
Airvana’s Peculiar Acquisition Announcement
What should we make of Airvana’s (AIRV) announcement that a private equity group is buying the company for $530 million, or $7.65 a share in cash? With $205 million in cash and equivalents as of September, plus almost $40 million collected subsequently from Ericsson, Airvana has more cash than it needs, so this isn’t... »
Verizon Perfects the Art of the Non-answer
When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) a few weeks ago asked Verizon to explain why it doubled its early termination fees, I thought it was a good idea that the FCC was raking the wireless giant over the coals. You know, keeping them honest and whatnot. My stance prompted one Verizon spokesperson to jokingly... »
Google CEO: We Won’t Repeat Microsoft’s Mistakes
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on a bit of a Microsoft offensive. Earlier this week, while talking to press in Boston when Schmidt was asked to comment on a statement by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, he said, “I’ve learned not to respond to quotes by Steve Ballmer.” Oh Snap! “Hopefully we won’t repeat the same... »
The Rise & Fall of a Billionaire Technology Hedge Fund Guru
About 15 years ago, as a young reporter covering the semiconductor industry for a newswire, I met a man called Raj Rajaratnam. At that time he was not only an influential semiconductor analyst at Needham & Co., but also president of the brokerage firm. The Sri Lanka-born analyst was one of the best and... »
Internet now dominated by ‘traffic superpowers’
Something extraordinary is happening to the Internet. According to one of the largest analyses of traffic yet undertaken, what the world calls ‘ the Internet’ is rapidly turning into an entity that exists inside and between a tiny number of hosting superpowers. According to Arbor Networks, which gathered the data for its 2009 Atlas Observatory... »
Cisco Buys Tandberg, but does Video Interoperability Suffer?
Cisco bought Tandberg, a video conferencing company for $3 billion. But is this good for the video conferencing industry or bad? Let’s have a recap of Cisco’s “openness” and adoption of standards. First, Cisco was very late to adopt the SIP standard, finally embracing third-party SIP phones back in 2006. However, Cisco plays... »
For Stock Market Junkies, AOL’s iPhone App, DailyFinance
Thanks to a tip over the weekend from my buddy and eco-blogger Paul Kedrosky, I’ve discovered AOL’s DailyFinance app, which has live stock quotes, interactive charts and real-time news and offers the ability to create and track portfolios. Along with the Bloomberg app, it has quickly become one of the apps I use most... »
OpenSky vs. SkypeforSIP – It’s On Baby!
It’s on! It’s Gizmo5’s OpenSky vs. Skype. Michael Robertson, the CEO of Gizmo5 has a post up where he compares Gizmo5’s OpenSky to Skype’s SkypeforSIP. It’s interesting how Michael talks about open standards, mentioning .mp3, a standard which Michael was a proponent of when he ran MP3.com and then backslaps Skype upside the head... »
Your Mobile Carrier Will Sell You for Pennies
Five major UK carriers are banding together to pool customer data so that it can be put into a giant database and then be used to sell advertising, The Register reports today. How long do you think it will take before this “database” idea lands on American shores? First they charge you hundreds of... »
Dell’s Smart Phone Seems Real This Time!
Dell Computer, a Round Rock, Texas–based computer maker is looking to enter the smart phone market and is currently toying with phones based on Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating systems, reports the Wall Street Journal. The news confirms rumors first reported last January. Later, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell dropped... »
WhichVoIP.com Launches Affiliate Program
WhichVoIP.com announced the launch of its new Business VoIP affiliate program. This free affiliate program seeks companies with Web sites serving technology or business users to offer such visitors access to free, no-obligation, customized business VoIP quotes from VoIP providers.Affiliates earn a commission every time a valid request for a …(124 words) ... »
SPOTLIGHT: Verizon’s Uber-desktop phone rumors
Persistent bloggers are starting to dig up nuggets of the Verizon Hub desktop phone. It appears to be a device with a cordless handset phone with a largish LCD display to one side able to display pictures and download widgets to display the time, weather, stock quotes, blah-blah… the typical code-load for phone/smart devices... »
Telarus Adds Qwest Data Products to GeoQuote
TelarusTelarus Inc. announced it has added real-time Qwest Communications International Inc. pricing to its GeoQuote system. Related Topics: 2008, data, DS3, Instant, international, LEC, phone, Pricing, quotes, Qwest, shopfort1, T1, Telarus, telecom »
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