From GigaOM, popular since 2 hoursThe four major mobile carriers have presented their 2008 second quarter financial results, and it’s really a tough time to be Sprint. We compiled a quick scorecard after T-Mobile USA reported its numbers this morning, so for an at-a-glance view [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 6 hoursQuite a few people are experiencing an extended downtime on their Google Apps accounts, according to sporadic reports that have landed in my inbox. Some folks are not able to get their e-mails while others have not been able to [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 1 dayTime Warner Cable reported positive second-quarter earnings (PDF) this morning that fell 26 percent but beat Wall Street’s expectations, and said it would split AOL’s dial-up Internet and advertising businesses into two divisions in 2009. Its earnings beat expectations largely [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 1 dayOnline storage companies pop up more frequently than mushrooms after a downpour in Southern France. And like the wild-growing fungus, not all of them are easily digested. Case in point: AOL's Xdrive, which despite corporate backing recently joined the likes [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 3 daysCrank calls have never been so easy.As folks on Reddit have pointed out, Disney’s Hannah Montana Wake-Up Call makes getting up to no good a snap. Just enter your friend’s victim’s phone number and the delightful Miley Cyrus’s voice will [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 4 daysThis past weekend, Michael Arrington reported, Thoof, an Austin-based social news site took a dirt nap. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to our readers. Stacey had the scoop way back in January that the company started by Ian Clarke [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 4 daysWith little to no desire to do any real writing this weekend, I decided to clean my work space. Once the papers were filed and the books were shifted to the right corner, a clear picture emerged, one of too [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 5 daysWe’ve talked before that metered access is a boneheaded idea that is bad for innovation, bad for Microsoft and Google, and ultimately bad for you. Until today, the idea seemed like an eventuality, not an immediate reality. But then NBC [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 5 daysRegardless of the title your company’s top technology executive uses — CTO, CIO, Chief Product Officer or VP of Engineering — your company will ultimately look to this person to produce the software and technical products upon which your business [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 6 daysToday the FCC took issue with how Comcast managed its network, essentially it looked at the packets and blocked or throttled those related to peer-to-peer applications on the upload side. If you thought warrantless wiretapping was intrusive, think about all [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 1 weekEvery day the promise of the mobile web moves closer to being realized, and every day we move one step closer to Mobilize, our one-day conference dedicated to examining the implications — and identifying the opportunities — in this coming [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 1 weekFor some of us old fogies who grew up using bulletin boards and forums on closed online services, online chat has always held a special allure. Remember, it was chatting that proved to be the killer application for AOL. Yet [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 1 weekOn a sunny afternoon back in June of 2007, members of the media, academia and the tech industry gathered to watch Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin drive a white Prius around the parking lot of the search giant’s [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 1 weekTwo studies came out today touting the conclusion that the multiple types of home networking technologies will not compete with one another, but will happily co-exist within the home. I, on the other hand, am beginning to think that Wi-Fi [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 1 weekBritish Telecom has acquired Silicon Valley-based Ribbit for roughly $105 million, according to various news outlets. Rumors of the deal first emerged on Venturebeat, though company officials vociferously denied any deal. Our sources say that the delays were mostly due [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 1 weekDuring its second quarter earnings call earlier this morning telco gear maker Alcatel-Lucent said its chairman Serge Tchuruk and its CEO Patricia Russo would step down. Both said they were stepping down because the consolidation after their 2006 merger was [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 1 weekMany operational clouds, such as Amazon Web Services, still require their customers to corral their own machines, however virtual. On the other hand, development clouds like Salesforce.com or Google's App Engine hide the underlying machines, and handle all the networking [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 1 weekAt Fortune Brainstorm conference last week I sat down with Michael Dell, founder and chief executive officer of computer hardware maker Dell. Our conversation covered everything from cloud computing to the likelihood of Dell entering the smartphone business to the [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 2 weeksMoondo, a new “cross-gaming universe” from Funtactix, an Israeli game studio that’s backed by $6 million in Series A funding from Benchmark Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners, has come out of beta. Sort of like Xbox Live for the web, [...]Read more
From GigaOM, popular since 2 weeksIvan and Abby Kirigin founded their startup, Tipjoy, to give consumers of free content a new way to pay for the stuff they really like: by leaving a tip. While the idea sounds simple enough, what the Kirigins want to [...]Read more