Archive for August 23rd, 2008

No VoIP In New Nokia N-Series Phones? Is Nokia Turning Its Back on MobileVoIP?

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 9:19 pm from GigaOM by Om Malik

Nokia, the leading handset maker, has been a favorite of ours for two reasons –- it ruthlessly promoted and added Wi-Fi connectivity to its handsets and added VoIP functionality to its devices. Carriers did not view these technology developments too kindly since it prevented them from extorting exorbitant amounts of cash for costly long distance connections, leading to the rise of mobile-VoIP players such as Truphone, Fring and Gizmo Project. But now the Finnish giant seems to have developed ...

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Future Win: Three VCs On Top Trends In Gaming

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 8:39 pm from GigaOM by Wagner James Au

Want to get a good idea of where the gaming business is headed? Follow the money — or better yet, follow the trends the folks with money are looking at. With that in mind, I recently contacted three top venture capitalists in the gaming space to get their take. What interests them most in this rapidly changing economy? Here’s the short version: We’ll see a lot more games that are free or funded with other models besides subscription and retail, and a top-to-bottom transformatio...

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F|R: What Startups Can Learn From Billy “Moneyball” Beane

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 3:54 pm from GigaOM by Carleen Hawn

If you’re a major league baseball fan, you’ve probably read “Moneyball,” the best-selling book by journalist Michael Lewis chronicling the successful statistics-driven management of Oakland Athletics General Manager, Billy Beane. Baseball has long been a game of stats, but Beane’s philosophy gave the tradition a twist: Instead of tracking a player’s batting average or runs batted in, Beane tracked a player’s on base percentage. The unorthodox approach helped Beane buil...

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VoIP Joins the Mile High Club

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 12:49 pm from VoIP User - IP Telephony Resource by dean

Phweet works over the American Airlines Aircell kit. Read More… ...

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Thanks to Our GigaNET Sponsors

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 12:33 am from GigaOM by Guest Column

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Data Shows That 3G Still Has Room to Grow

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 12:06 am from GigaOM by Stacey Higginbotham

We’re pretty darn future-focused on 4G technologies over here, with LTE and WiMax dominating a lot of our coverage. But sometimes it’s good to check in with what we’ve already got, so we pulled some numbers on wireless broadband in the U.S. and the world. The data shows that the early deployments of EV-DO (CDMA variant of 3G) networks by Verizon Wireless and Sprint back in the early 2000s kept it ahead of rival GSM standards in the U.S., but shows that all variants of 3G have ...

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