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Truphone Local Anywhere Makes Mobile Roaming Painless
Truphone Local Anywhere is likely one of the more revolutionary products/services you will see this year and consists of a single-SIM, multi-country mobile service that will make any mobile call within the set of supported countries a local call....
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Soros a Communications and Tech Fan
Billionaire investor George Soros seems to be a fan of tech and telecom as evidenced by the recent Soros Fund Management SEC filing. Holdings include a ton of familiar tech and telecom names and I listed some of them below....
Amazon Net Grows 9% in Latest Quarter
Amazon continues to perform and the company has shown it is dominant in the world of ecommerce. For the year, net sales grew 28 percent over 2007, to $19.17 billion. This includes a 9% increase last quarter -- a quarter...
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Is Eric Schmidt Protecting a Google Monopoly?
Photo courtesy of NY Times Eric Schmidt seems to be everywhere but most often attached to the hip of President Obama. I have a simple question to ask. Many of us know Google is more or less a monopoly...
Yahoo Action Plan
What should Yahoo do now with new CEO Carol Bartz? Here is one man's opinion and some of these ideas are quite good. I especially like the concept of buying twitter but what would it be worth? Could it be...
Yahoo's CEO Gamble
Yahoo just replaced Jerry Yang with Carol Bartz the former Autodesk CEO and I am impressed and concerned. Bartz has an excellent resume with honors and awards as long as anyone: 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, Fortune, 2005...
TV Evolves With Yahoo, Samsung, Neulion
Some of the latest television news of interest is that Yahoo widgets will appear on Samsung TV sets. This is a big development as it shows the companies in the web and TV camps are coming closer together. As you...
Look Out Google, Here Comes MSE360
Recently I came across a search engine which was new to me called MSE360. I tried it out and was impressed that a search engine I have never heard of could be so accurate. It is not perfect mind you...
Cuil: Lack of Money, Not Focus?
I have mentioned in the past that Google has a tremendous advantage in search over Microsoft and Yahoo because it is able to focus better as it has less going on. If that were true, now that Google has become...
Yahoo Adds Social Features to Mail
In a promising move, Yahoo will add social features to its mail service and increase the "sociability" of many of its services. In addition, you will now be able to turn the electronic mail service into a "scrapbook for your...
Click Fraud Still at 16%
Despite a tremendous amount of dollars being lost, efforts to thwart click fraud have not reduced it by much. In fact there was a miniscule 0.2% drop in click fraud this quarter over last according to Click Forensics. 16% is...
Guess Who's Back, Back Again... Redmond's Back. Tell Icahn
Carl Icahn is pushing hard to get a Microsoft Yahoo deal done as he picks up more Yahoo shares and waits for something to happen between the two companies. The latest? Microsoft will potentially pick up the search business for...
Yahoo E-Mail Problems
If you are having problems getting legitimate emails to get through Yahoo email servers, Tom Keating's post is a must read -- along with the comments. Like so many other things in life, unscrupulous people -- in this case spammers,...
10 Million Life Mag Images Hosted By Google
Updated and corrected thanks to commenter Mark WhitingLife Magazine has just announced its 10 million images will be available via Google Image Search.Interestingly the photos reside on Google itself at this address: images.google.com/hosted/life.Out of curiosity I typed in images.google.com/hosted to...
What the New Yahoo CEO Needs to Do
With financial markets in turmoil and Jerry Yang being responsible for more or less botching the Microsoft deal, it is obvious he needs to step down. The only question is why did it take so long? Here are thoughts on...
Microsoft Does Not Want Yahoo
Steve Ballmer is a master negotiator. C'mon - we know he wants Yahoo. We know Microsoft needs Yahoo but still, he plays coy and says he is not interested. Very smart. It looks like these comments were responsible for Yahoo...
White Spaces + Google/Yahoo Break Up = Great News
There has been a tremendous amount of news worth analyzing as of late and perhaps two of the most important items of note are the FCC's approval of vacant TV white spaces for the use of broadband data devices. I...
Strategy Change: Make Money
In my conversations with a number of CEOs of small tech and communications companies, one thing has become clear. The market for exiting businesses has become tougher. This is common sense and the added challenge is with today's stock...
Can Yahoo Get Out of its Own Way?
Obviously this past month has seen tremendous market volatility but I thought it important to point your attention to Yahoo being near a fiver-year low. The company could have been taken over by Microsoft and returned shareholders over $13 billion...
Google Chrome: The Google of Browsers
The long-rumored Google browser may be here. According to this blog, it is called Chrome, is open-source and will do lots of things other browsers already do and some that others don't. The project has a focus on security and...
Yahoo Mash: Smashed
Here's a really good CNET article detailing the death of Yahoo's social network Mash and further analysis of the social networking landscape. It would seem we have a saturated market and if you are looking to break into the space...
Adobe Buzzword... On the Path to a Yahoo Merger?
You might have thought there are enough word processors on the market and there is absolutely no reason for any company to go through the expense of developing a word processor when Microsoft owns the market and Google is coming...
Facebook Benefits Obama Most
As candidates embrace more and more web 2.0 concepts, they begin to outpace many companies in their use of new age tools. Recently in fact the McCain campaign emailed a series of videos which let his supporters choose which video...
Cuil Analysis
I am impressed with aspects of Cuil like the user interface but sadly, this search engine is not the Google killer that many (including the company) had hoped. I launched the new search engine with the same level of excitement...
Yahoo Enlists Home Page to Fight Icahn
The Yahoo takeover offer by Microsoft and the subsequent saga that has ensued is unusual in my recollection of corportate takeovers. The latest chapter in the saga is Yahoo now using its home page to fight Carl Icahn. The ad...
