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Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Delayed roundup

Here is a quick roundup I wanted to post a couple weeks back, but my time-management skills ditched me completely.

Cheers for Yahoo on their earnings - quite a rev up in the past year. Yahoo Podcast has been a welcome addition. I am a fan of Podcasts and Yahoo is good stuff, definitely for starters. This also will help Podcasts become pretty much mainstream. Also, Yahoo teaming up with Verizon to introduce the $14.95 DSL (update: until I recently learn that it is a 6 month only promotion and prices are being jacked up), Yahoo announcing its $5/month unlimited music download service. As I look forward to Yahoo Mail's Beta, Yahoo and MS teaming up for their IM presence, Yahoo and Alibaba deal.

Good news from Cingular on several counts:

HSDPA - I look forward to seeing how things stack up against the EV-DO camp at Verizon and Sprint-Nextel.

56% rise in 3Q profits

going the IMS way - Good news for Lucent too as SBC follows Cingular. Speculations on BellSouth being next.

And yes, this makes me so on-top-of-the-world. The first commercial Flash-OFDM deal - T-Mobile Europe introduces Flash-OFDM for Slovakia. Siemens built the network. "... mobile data speeds up to 1M bps for downloading data and 256K bps for uploading." Can see Qualcomm smiling!

Also, T-Mobile International launching high speed wireless service dubbed "Internet-4G" in Czech - 1MBps on UMTS TD-CDMA

Cisco to invest $1.1 Billion in India. From the article, $750 million are going toward R&D. The balance - "The company also plans to invest $150 million in India through Cisco Systems Capital, a division of Cisco Systems, to provide leasing and other financial services to Cisco's customers and partners. The company also plans to invest $100 million in venture capital for Indian startup companies, besides spending $100 million in its customer support operations in the country. "

Note the $100 million for venture capital. Thats the kind of trend-setting thing that Indian entrepreneurs need - I sincerely hope that this could kick-start a lot of fun and also be the seed for seeing more venture capital in India.

E Ink now in color

Microsoft VirtualWiFi technology - sounds interesting and brings about speculations.

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