Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
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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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
WAP was one of the big disappointments of the mobile industry in the late 90s. Mobile Internet would be enabled by WAP, that would allow Internet access adapted to the small screens and lower processing power of the handsets of the time.
Telcos invested a lot of money to deploy the ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Last week we commented on the move of Adobe into Internet TV - beyond the pure technology role they already play in YouTube. After testing Adobe Media Player, I like it specially for the control it gives you to decide what to watch every night, compared to regular TV. Technically, in slow broadband ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Adobe just just released Adobe Media Player 1.0 and Adobe TV. Built on AIR, the Media Player supports Flash video and h264 video encoding, with 1080p, 720p and 480i resolutions. Users can subscribe to channels, with content available from CBS, Universal and MTV among others, including the Long Tail of ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Google has just launched App Engine, the service to give developers access to Google Cloud, or in other words, to the same Google infrastructure that runs G-Mail, Google Apps or Google Earth.
App Engine provides a number of tools to develop Web applications that will run on Google data centers. The ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Google did not actually want the spectrum licenses, that ultimately went to Verizon and AT&T. Google's objective was to secure a bid that met the $4.6 Bn price tag that would enforce the regulations they had lobbied for open applications and open devices. Google admits this strategy in their Public ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
MySpace has struck a deal with Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music to create a joint venture for a Music Site. EMI is reported to be still in negotiations. The labels would take a minority stake at the spin-off of MySpace Music service.
TechCrunch was the first ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
In a previous post, back in January, Google already advised that the traffic to Google from iPhones surpassed any other smartphone, even if iPhone accounts for only 2% of the worldwide smartphones. Nokia’s Symbian 63%, Windows Mobile 11% and RIM 10%.
M:Metrics confirms those findings based on a report of iPhone user ...
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