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Seriously, FCC, Get a Move On
GigaOm Stacey pinged me and pointed to this report about the state of Internet Access Services issued by the Federal Communications Commission. It has a lot of fascinating data, but the problem is that the report has data that is 14 months old, which makes it pretty much worthless. Topics: broadband, satellite, government, Federal Communications [...]
Is Skype Up For Sale?
GigaOm Skype, the Internet telephony company that recently filed for an initial public offering, might be up for sale… again! After being sold to eBay and then spun out, a report suggests that Cisco Systems is looking to buy the company. The report adds that Google might been interested in Skype but has backed off [...]
Did Net Neutrality Just Get Knifed in The Back? (From Google?)
GigaOm A long time ago, I offered to make a bet with a friend that when commercial interests would collide with the broader interests such as network neutrality, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google would do what any large company does: do what is right for its commercial interests. I should have made that bet. I would [...]
Meet The 2600hz Project, The New Sound of Open Source Telephony
GigaOm Some of the core developers behind FreePBX — a well-known, open-source phone system — have teamed up and started The 2600hz Project, a commercial entity promoting a collection of open-source telephony applications and libraries. Today, they are releasing blue.box, a reworked version of open source FreePBX. Topics: Asterisk, auto-attendant, VoIP, open source, PBX
How Big is Amazon’s Cloud Computing Business? Find Out
GigaOm The question often people ask: how much money is Amazon making from these web services. I have heard some wild estimates. Topics: Amazon.Com
Who is the World’s Biggest Broadband Company?
GigaOm Given that Asia dominates the list of 100 Fastest Internet cities and China is the most populous nation in the world, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that China is home to the largest broadband service provider in the world. The latest data gathered by Telegeography, a research firm, shows that at [...]
When it Comes to Broadband, UK Still A Laggard
GigaOm A few years ago, the British government claimed that by 2012 it would have minimum broadband speeds of 2 Mbps available across the country. But that isn’t happening, and yesterday the British culture secretary Jeremy Hunt blamed it on lack of funding and pushed the date to 2015, according to a report in The [...]
Best Buy Admits Defeat, Gets Rid of Speakeasy
GigaOm Best Buy agreed to merge its Speakeasy DSL business with Covad and Megapath today, creating a managed service local exchange carrier, and sounding the death knell for independent DSL providers. In return, Best Buy is getting a minority stake in the combined company, which to me is a euphemism for fire sale. Topics: broadband, [...]
Once Again, Steve Ballmer Is Wrong — This Time About Android
GigaOm In the battle of words, one Steve (Jobs) is more often right than not. The other Steve (Ballmer) is almost always wrong. He was wrong about the iPod. He was wrong about the iPhone and he is once again going to be proven wrong about Google’s Android OS. Topics: Microsoft, iPhone, Google, Android
U.S. Broadband Demand Bounces Back
GigaOM Demand for new broadband connections jumped during the first quarter of 2010, reversing what was a long slide in 2009, according to a new report by Durham, N.H.-based Leichtman Research. The top 19 cable broadband and telephone companies added a net total of 1.4 million broadband subscribers in the first three months of the [...]
Faster Upstream Speeds for Cable Broadband
GigaOm By now we are quite aware of cable companies’ plans to offer 100 Mbps connections to their customers, thanks to DOCSIS 3.0 technologies. Our friend cable companies are considering drastically boosting upstream speeds in coming years. Comcast, Cox and Liberty Global have all done trials that have produced shared upstream speeds of about 75 [...]
Why Intel Will Be a Mobile Loser
GigaOm Intel, as it’s wont to do, overnight made a splashy unveiling of a new family of processors: the Atom Z6xx series, whose chips are much more powerful than current versions but consume less power. Why the hoopla? Apparently these chips, which run at over 1.5 GHz, can be used to power not only smartphones [...]
Amazing….Bell Labs Pushes DSL Speeds to 300 Mbps
GigaOm In this era of fiber to the home, it is easy to dismiss copper-based DSL, the broadband connectivity technology commonly sold by phone companies world wide. Looks like it is too soon to completely write off this technology. Topics: broadband, DSL, Bell Labs, central office, Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T
Finally, Broadband Over Powerline, R.I.P.
GigaOm During the early part of this decade, lobbyists, former FCC chairmen Michael Powell and Kevin Martin and a sundry bunch of random carpet baggers were all very vocal and enthusiastic in pushing a technology called broadband over power-line. Never mind the fact that BPL didn’t quite work and very quickly was overtaken by other more sane [...]
Why the iPad Will Change Blogging for Me
The new WordPress app now makes me wonder whether blogging on the iPad could make it yet another powerful (yet simple) tool for content creation. Sure, there are some shortcomings — I’m not quite sure how to upload photos or videos to our blog, or how I actually get them onto the iPad without a [...]
