GigaOM (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
AT&T, long before it merged with SBC had made a half-hearted attempt at getting into consumer VoIP by selling a service called, CallVantage. It was surprisingly good, especially its call quality. Unfortunately, the company never quite made the commitment to it. And when SBC merger happened, well it fell victim of save-your-mentality that comes with [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
GigaOM’s Structure 08 event offered a terrific opportunity to survey the changing landscape of computing infrastructure. But as with all technology shifts, innovation won’t just belong to the big established players like VMWare, Amazon, Google, Sun Microsystems, Salesforce.com and NetSuite. With that in mind, Found|READ asked a panel of conference participants to share their thoughts [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
You just had to squeeze a little more work in on this Fourth of July holiday, didn’t you? Well, we’re glad you stopped by. But before your fire up the BBQ, take a minute to catch up on what you might have missed over at NewTeeVee. A federal judge ordered YouTube to hand over its [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
Google has released a Google Talk client for the iPhone that allows instant messaging as long as the application is open. I’d like to think of this as a nifty way around rising texting costs, but that’s unlikely, given how much time my phone spends in my pocket. If this type of mobile app takes [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
For a while there, covering the chip industry was like covering a race run by a rabbit and a cheetah. AMD was the rabbit, while Intel — with its much larger market cap and greater profits — was the cheetah. Evey now and then the rabbit would fool you into thinking he was going to [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
Speculation that Google is working with French ISPs to build out a Gallic WiMax network has folks at Fierce Wireless wondering if Google may push open broadband overseas by investing in WiMax deployments. They point to a report in a French paper that says Google has teamed up with Illiad-owned ISP Free (Om loves [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
While the Internet has evolved, U.S. Internet service providers have not kept pace. And their lagging is costing them money, which they are now looking to pass onto the consumer in the form of usage-based pricing.
Nyquist Capital (Free subscription) | yesterday
State of U.S. Broadband: Demand Hits Speed Bumps - GigaOM Om Malik writes up the Pew Internet report on US Broadband growth. Broadband penetration has slowed, prices are dropping, and at this point only 11% of users would pay $10 a month to double their connection speed. As an investor, this is not a market you [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
The promise of web video was that cheap cameras, easy editing software and free online distribution would open up new vistas of creativity. Instead we’re just seeing the same things, mostly parodies, over and over. Some are just recycling the same ideas. It’s just becoming faster and easier, which is spawning more of it, as [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the economic slowdown and faltering housing sales, the US broadband growth has hit a speed bump. And that's not good news for broadband providers, who hope to overcome the odds by offering speed boosts. Even that might not be enough. Continue Reading.
GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
While pop stars’ fortunes these days are heavily dependent on building an online fan base, the reverse is even more true. Social media sites are tripping over themselves to score the one celebrity who will shower them with rabid fans. I’m surprised to see how often the words “The Jonas Brothers” show up in my [...]
Geeking with Greg (Free subscription) | yesterday
In his post, " Inside Microsoft's Internet Infrastructure & Its Plans for the Future ", Om Malik highlights some interesting "facts about Microsoft-owned data centers": [Microsoft is] adding 10,000 servers a month Network backbone ... soon ... [will be] 500 Gigabits. Data in the near future will soon approach 100s of petabytes. All the computation you could want and all the data you can eat. Perhaps...
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Powerset founder Barney Pell used to turn blue in the face telling people how superior his company's approach to search was, yet now he's selling the firm to Microsoft for a rumored $100 million. The move is not, however, simply a reflection of how well Powerset was doing but of how much money the company was faced with spending in order to compete with Google.
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Imagine what it would be like if gas were $7 a gallon, or three and a half times the price at the beginning of last year. According to CIBC World Markets analyst Jeff Rubin, unless something gives, that’s what we can expect two pay — in less than two years time. Earth2Tech has the full story .
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Vyyo, loosely translated, means “air” in Hindi. And air is what the Norcross, Ga.-based cable broadband equipment maker with that name might have run out of. The company, which used to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker VYYO, is down to some $5.3 million in cash and cash equivalents, according to an SEC filing. The [...]
