Archive for the ‘TOP Popular Posts’ Category
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
"...music existed long before the record industry was born, and it will live long after it’s dead". This was a wise comment in the agitated discussion that followed Mike Arrington post The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme.
I can only agree with Mike position and the comment against those who claim ...
Posted in Media & New Economy, TOP Popular Posts | No Comments »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
TechCrunch post today about WiMAX, Why Cable And WiMax Shouldn’t Mix, clearly misses the point. Their two conclusion items are misconceived, not to say wrong:
1. TechCrunch says: "WiMax is more an alternative to fixed broadband Internet access than it is to mobile phone service"
TechCrunch seems to ignore that WiMAX Rev-d brings mobility and ...
Posted in TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
SpinVox, founded in 2003, is a pioneer in delivering speech-to-text applications. SpinVox claims it has agreements with twelve telcos, to provide a system to translate voice mail messages into SMS or emails. These days SpinVox has been in the news because it just secured $100 Million financing from Goldman Sachs, ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship, TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
No doubt email is an extremely useful tool for communication. It has replaced fax and snail mail in enterprises and it is widely used ...and abused. Email has made organizations flatter. Any employee can reach anyone in the organization, including the top , with a simple email. Adding people to distribution ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, TOP Popular Posts | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
New economy is a term that became popular during the years of the Internet bubble. Although the term is now less used, there has never been before a better understanding of the disruptive forces transforming our economies and some industries.
Chris Anderson and his book The Long Tail provide excellent insight ...
Posted in Biz Books, Media & New Economy, TOP Popular Posts | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Telcos keep investing in improving their broadband networks: from ASDL to ASDL2+ to VDSL and now Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). FTTH will enable bandwidths in the order of 100 Mbps, both for downlink and uplink.
Telcos are investing important sums to bring fiber to the users: Verizon, SBC and BellSouth plan multi-billion dollars investments in the next three ...
Posted in TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
As their networks transform into IP and threatened by Internet players, many Telcos are hesitant whether to enter the Entertainment business. Here are three main reasons why Telcos must go for it.
New revenue streams:
Telcos are very profitable today and generate a huge amount of cash worth to be invested in accessing new ...
Posted in TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Monday, February 4th, 2008
Microsoft has openly declared that its bid to acquire Yahoo aims at improving their position in advertisement and fight the dominant position of Google. Do not expect Google to remain quiet.
What are Google options to defend from Microsoft, apart from sending missives? Counter bidding for Yahoo, is not an option ...
Posted in Digital Home, Internet, TOP Popular Posts | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
An effective architecture for the Digital Home requires two main elements: a centralized shared storage for media files, and a Media Player that connects to each of the displays at home: TVs, LCD, Plasma screens in different rooms.
We reviewed the shared storage for media, be it a NAS ...
Posted in Digital Home, TOP Popular Posts | 4 Comments »
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
As we anticipated in our 2008 predictions, the demand for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices at home is rapidly increasing.
Apple announcement of Time Capsule, even if not a proper NAS, goes into that direction.
There are two trends we all recognize in our digital style-life:
1) An increasing number of media files (photos, ...
Posted in Digital Home, TOP Popular Posts | 5 Comments »
