Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
IP Multimedia Subsystem or IMS is an architecture standardized by 3GPP, 3GPP2 and TISPAN, that is the choice of telcos to implement not only VoIP, but also other multimedia services, such as videcalls, presence, instant messaging, push-to-x, videosharing, on-line address book, etc.
As an user, you can envision IMS ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
A wedding is the most common of the happy endings in movies, theater plays and also in the stock market.
A wedding of Microsoft and Yahoo would make very happy to Yahoo investors (specially those who bought in the last months), trading banks and stock brokers that will cash nice fees.
But ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
After Microsoft pulled off the $33 a share bid, the stock market is the judge to approve Yahoo board's decision, by keeping the share price up, or to disapprove by sending its price below $20.
This morning Yahoo share took a 20% hit, opening at $23.02, after Friday’s close at $28.67. ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Microsoft and Yahoo deal is over. Microsoft has withdrawn its bid as Yahoo did not accept the offer of $33 per share.
TechCrunch was the first to report the break in negotiations - I wonder how Mike can know so fast... or do they edit the posting time? Just kidding... -. Mike's ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
While Internet TV enjoys the hype, the reality is that Telco's IPTV is growing steady, while Apple and Amazon keep mum on their movie download service numbers.
Every week we have news of players entering Internet TV or existing players reinforcing their offers. This week ReadWriteWeb reports news fron Netflix with ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The videos of BarelyPolitical.com are becoming more and more funny, and more and more seen.
One dutch TV channel interviewed these guys
As Ben Relles describes, this would not have been possible in 2004, even if Internet was already extremely popular by then. This phenomenon today is empowered by Web 2.0, and ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
April 2018. DIGooGle makes popular a GigaCrunch post: Microsoft Apocalypse
Vista was the beginning of the end. A few years after its launch, the debacle was inevitable. First the SMEs and SOHO abandoned Microsoft when it stopped Windows XP support. By that time Google had launched G-Enterprise, consisting of Google Apps + ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Add GMail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Salesforce.com and Skype in a package. Is there a better value proposition for SMEs and SOHOs for their IT and Communications infrastructure?
Add a Linux distro for the business desktop, supported by Google, and you have a killing package for the small and medium ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Nokia Q1 results have disappointed analyst, even if revenues grew 28% YoY to reach $20 billion and net profit reached $1.9 billion, up 25% from last year. Nokia shipped 115 M handsets in Q1, 27% YoY growth, with strong performance in emerging markets (Asia, Africa and Middle-East). Still Nokia ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
eBay announced results, and Skype was part of them. Skype revenues have increased 61% year-on-year to reach $126M. Skype added 33M new users for a total of 309M. Skype makes most of its revenue with SkypeOut, where the tariffs barely cover the interconnection costs to finalize the calls in the telco's ...
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