Verizon Wireless has launched a Veoh channel on its V CAST service. Veoh is an upstart Internet Television provider with more than 85,000 video publishers – from Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate, PBS and Us Magazine to many independent content producers, and 15 million unique users per month. With Veoh, Verizon Wireless V CAST subscribers have [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2007
Sprint and Clearwire is a win for WiMAX
Sprint and Clearwire, the two companies rushing to build a nationwide WiMAX network, just announced an agreement to collaborate on building a nationwide network by the end of 2008. By working together, Sprint and Clearwire the first coast-to-coast WiMAX network and will do it sooner than by going alone. The companies plan to market mobile [...]
Verizon Wireless does U-turn and pays Broadcom to import EV-DO mobile devices
The unending patent saga between Broadcom and Qualcomm takes yet another twist as Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay Broadcom $6 per handset, up to a maximum $40 million per quarter and a lifetime maximum of $200 million in order to be able to import EV-DO handsets into the USA. Verizon Wireless had previously supported [...]
Lessons for Venture Capital firms from SunRocket
SunRocket, the standalone VoIP provider, has gone belly up. This is just the beginning – there will be more casualties among standalone VoIP providers. What’s interesting about SunRocket is that they raised $80 million from BlueRun Ventures (formerly Nokia Venture Partners), Mayfield Fund, Doll Capital Management and Anthem Capital Management, but only have 200,000 customers. [...]
Google Custom Search will Kill the Competition
Google unveiled a custom search tool, dubbed “Google Custom Search Business Edition”, aimed at small and medium-size businesses (SMB). This is a hosted search service that provides powerful indexing and customized-search capabilities. Now customers, vendors, and others can easily search your company web site and get relevant search results, without requiring an IT system (people, [...]
5 reasons why VoIP providers will go Bust
Recent news has highlighted that VoIP service provider SunRocket has gone bust. This is no case of bad management – more and more VoIP providers will fall off the face of the earth in the coming months and years. Before getting into the why and the who, let’s look at the different types of VoIP [...]
Selfcast wants to be the Live Streaming version of YouTube
Selfcast is a new peer-to-peer based technology that enables “anyone, anywhere” to create live streaming content and broadcast themselves live on the Internet. Selfcast comes with a free software application to capture, mix and broadcast live video and audio, and then broadcast it live on the Internet. You can even invite friends, fans and family [...]
Babelgum strengthens strategy, gets new CEO
Babelgum, the upstart Internet TV network that looks and works much like Joost, has appointed Valerio Zingarelli as the CEO. Zingarelli takes over from co-founder Erik Lumer who will now focus on strategic product development. Prior to Babelgum, Zingarelli was an independent Boardmember of Fastweb, the second largest Wireline Telecommunication Company in Italy. Before that, [...]
Yahoo! 411 service
Google has it’s 411 Service. Microsoft recently bought Tellme, a speech-based Internet services provider to power Local Search. For those of us who’ve known Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft as the triumvirate of search, Yahoo is notably missing from the 411 camp. 411 is just another way to search for information, albeit an important one for [...]
