Good Networking and Telecom Blogs

Here’s a quick survey of blogs in the networking and telecom domains that we like. Do you have some to add?

Good Technology Business Blogs

There are many, of course. Here are some we read: TechCrunch: TechCrunch reports on new technology companies in the web space. Ars Technica: Ars Technica is focused on the “art of technology”.

Good Mobility and Convergence Blogs

Here are some we track: Network Administrator: Selena Frye at Networking Administrator has contributors discussing topics such as video conferencing, VoIP, mobile technology, and Unified Communications. Engadget: Engadget is one of most popular gadget blogs.

Time to Buy Comcast?

2007 has been a terrible year for Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA), the stock having lost over 35% value. Is it time to buy or does it have more downside? For one thing, Comcast is not going away. It dominates the US multi-channel television market, serving more than 21 million customers with an HFC network that passes

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Broadcom: Strengths and Weaknesses

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author 2007 has been a happening year for the wireless industry. Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android are just two examples of how even outsiders want a part of this very luscious pie. 2007 was eventful for another reason – the legal battles between two American communication devices manufacturers – Qualcomm and

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Mobile WiMAX – 4Ging the Future?

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In my last piece, I gave a brief historical perspective of WiMAX as a fixed wireless broadband standard. This article provides an insight into mobile WiMAX and its future as a 4G standard.

eBay of Latin America: Mercado Libre CEO Marcos Galperin (Part 4)

SM: What was your platform in those early days – an auction platform or a fixed price platform? MG: It was completely an auction platform, and today it is 90% a fixed priced platform. Another thing we did different is that we did not like the Buy It Now feature on eBay. We used it

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Fixed WiMAX – Last-mile broadband

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author Today belongs to CDMA-based wireless technologies. These technologies will continue to dominate the wireless market at least until 2012, beyond which they will slowly be phased out by 4G technologies based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). OFDMA is a multi-user version of OFDM systems that transmit data by

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