The SquawkBox Podcast

Squawk Box Preview – April 11

April 11, 2008

I’ve been following Pinger for a little while, and this morning we’ll have Joe Sipher, CEO, as our guest on SquawkBox. Pinger’s value proposition is built around sending short voice messages to mobile phones, much like SMS text messages. It’s generate considerable interest, especially in the arts community. So join us at 11 AM as [...]

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Squawk Box April 9 – Google App Engine, and Skype’s Carterfone application

April 9, 2008

Squawk Box April 9 was huge fun. The topics were: Google’s App Engine. Who’s it for, how does it differ from Amazon Web Services, and where’s Microsoft? It got downright ugly for a while as people jumped on the bash Microsoft wagon, but it’s worth keeping in mind that the critics who mockingly refer to [...]

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Squawk Box April 9 – Google App Engine, and Skype's Carterfone application

April 9, 2008

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Squawk Box April 8

April 8, 2008

This morning’s Squawk Box never made it to second base. In discussing the trends in mobile telephony, we ranged over a variety of different topics ranging from the “all-in-one” swiss army phone, to the importance of the browser, and a whole whole lot more. After 48 minutes we cut off the call, and said we’d [...]

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Squawk April 8 Preview

April 8, 2008

This morning we’re going to talk about the changing landscape in mobile devices. Apple has set the tone of conversation with iPhone, but Microsoft last week announced the inclusion of a full browser in an upcoming version of Windows Mobile, and yesterday Nokia was showing their first touch device code-named “Tube”. Tube? Is that Finnish [...]

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Squawk Box April 7

April 7, 2008

Squawkbox this morning was a pretty interesting discussion. Most of the folks on the line were pretty dismissive of the New York Times assertion that blogging is dangerous to your health. It was very interesting to hear the different strategies that folks employed, however, to stay in shape. We also discussed the Shel Israel / [...]

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Squawk Box April 2 – Tungle

April 2, 2008

We had a great SquawkBox today with Marc Gingras of Tungle. Tungle, if you don't know it, makes organizing meetings easy. Whether you're in the same organization, or different organizations (imagine, for instance, trying to organize a meeting with your financial advisor), Tungle can tell you who's available, when, and then allow you to schedule [...]

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Squawk Box Preview – April 2

April 2, 2008

Have you ever tried to set up a meeting between two people in different companies? You start by swapping email saying “how about thursday at 3 or friday at 1?”. When that becomes too much of a hassle you say “screw it”, pick up the phone and start exchanging voice mails until you finally reach [...]

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Squawk Box March 25 Preview

March 25, 2008

Today we're going to talk about two topics: First, allegations have emerged that Bell Canada is throttling traffic to DSL wholesalers. A group of enterprising folks on the DSL Reports forum have tracked this, and it's causing quite a stink. Second, the New Yorker has published an extensive piece on the death of the newspaper. [...]

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SquawkBox March 19 – The Facebook Episode

March 19, 2008

Today was the Facebook episode. We're discussed three things: Yesterday Facebook announced a whole new suite of privacy controls. We talked about what they are, and whether people will use them. Facebook also previewed their new IM client. Is this the beginning of a push into Real Time Communications? Comscore announced that Facebook has surpassed [...]

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