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HOT TOPICS
- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
telecom
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 Stock Blogs
As you know, I cover pretty much the entire spectrum of Technology Stocks. Here are some others who do a good job on the topic, and I read some of their work to stay on top of the market, myself. I must say, however, that it is becoming increasingly challenging to read everything that one
3Com Is Now REALLY Going After Cisco
I just got off the phone with Eric Benhamou, with whom, as you know, I have been discussing 3Com and Palm recently. I said earlier, that 3Com is trying to take on Cisco with its Chinese JV H3C in my Online Video Beneficiaries series, and that Cisco is a fat company that deserves to be
BOP Shared Mobile Access (WRI)
Another innovative business model—shared access, in which an entrepreneur with a phone provides pay-per-use access to a community—has extended the social and economic impact of mobile phones beyond the subscriber base. In South Africa more than half the traffic on Vodacom’s mobile network in 2004 came not from its 8 million subscribers but from 4,400
BOP Markets: Mobile Telephony (Excerpt from the WRI Report)
Perhaps the strongest and most dramatic BOP success story is mobile telephony. Between 2000 and 2005 the number of mobile subscribers in developing countries grew more than fivefold—to nearly 1.4 billion. Growth was rapid in all regions, but fastest in sub-Saharan Africa—Nigeria’s subscriber base grew from 370,000 to 16.8 million in just four years (World
iPhone and the Future of Qualcomm
Qualcomm (QCOM) has been reaping the benefits of the worldwide mobile industry boom for a while. Qualcomm engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology, key competitor to GSM, the other standard. In fact, while most of the world
Microsoft Launches Its Israel R&D Center
By Danny Cohen, Guest Author [SM: I have a great deal of interest in seeing technology and entrepreneurship thrive in other locations besides Silicon Valley. Danny’s article here provides a crisp update on the Israeli scene.] A couple of days ago Microsoft announced the opening of a new R&D center outside of Tel-Aviv. For the
State of Broadband in India
By Sujai Karampuri, Guest Author Take a look at current broadband penetration in India? It’s a mere 2.5 million subscribers (or less). That’s less than 0.25%. Most indicators of technology penetrations, such as telephone, PC, mobile, broadband, have a direct correlation with increase in the GDP and per capita of a nation. However, India’s broadband
