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Squawk Box August 21

August 21, 2008

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown On the SquawkBox conference call this morning we discussed the rumours of an iTunes unlimited offering.  The folks over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog published a piece this morning suggesting that Apple might offer (for perhaps $130 year) a subscription “all-you-can-eat” iphone music service, with the option to buy tracks [...]

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Squawk Box August 18 – the Evolution of Blogging

August 18, 2008

I was inspired by a piece last week on GigaOm about the evolution of blogs, titled Why Blogs Need to be Social. This morning we talked about the evolution of blogs and social networks, where they intersect, and how. The whole topic has been engendered by the discussion around whether bloggers and blogs have failed their readers.

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Squawk Box June 17

June 17, 2008

It’s more than a decade after Mark Andreeson made his famous comment that the browser was the new OS. You know, the one that led to the browser wars of the 1990′s, and Microsoft’s antitrust trial? Today we discussed browsers and browser technology.

First, there’s the release of Firefox 3.0, and today is the day that the Mozilla Foundation has declared “download Firefox day”. Everyone on the call planned to download Firefox 3.0, and we had a fairly detailed feature dump from Dan York.

Second, there was a fabulous little piece on Techdirt titled The Browser is the New Operating System, which we debate.

And finally, we had a short discussion about the new E66 and E71 phones released by Nokia.

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Squawk Box June 2

June 2, 2008

Last night Adobe unveiled Acrobat.com, an online office suite with collaboration, word processing and more, all built on flash.  We got some first impressions from people who’ve used it, and talked about what Adobe’s entry into the Office in the Cloud sweepstakes really means. And what about Chris Messina and Robert Scoble’s dialog comparing Facebook [...]

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Squawk Box May 29 – Guest Trevor Healy

May 29, 2008

Today we talked with JAJAH CEO Trevor Healy, about the JAJAH Q2 Telecommunications Industry Index. This is a piece of research conducted by JAJAH which reveals industry trends that I think a lot of people on the telephone call had been expecting for some time.

The data was collected from 700 interviews conducted at CTIA, and then a series of C-Level carrier interviewers.

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Squawk Box May 9 – 911 with John Lange

May 9, 2008

Today’s Squawk Box was on the topic of 911 standards.  Guest John Lange is the President of the Canadian Voice over IP Service Providers Association, and an active participant in the CRTC’s process for defining nomadic 911 services in Canada.  He explained the issues, solutions and politics surrounding nomadic 911 service.  An informative guest, we [...]

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Squawk Box May 7 – special guest Ribbit

May 7, 2008

This morning we had the Ribbit team on the call. Ribbit continues to be one of the more interesting voice plays in the market, as they have figured out how to build out the application platform and revenue model that allows ordinary developers (web developers, not IMS geeks!) to be able to successfully incorporate voice [...]

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Squawk Box April 29 – Guest Roman Scharf

April 29, 2008

Today we talked with Jajah co-Founder Roman Scharf about their big announcements this morning. We started by discussing the 10 million users that JAJAH announced.  It turned out that these were pure JAJAH users, and that buttons and other widgets comprise only a small portion of those 10 million.  According to Roman, growth in JAJAH [...]

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Squawk Box March 27 – Guest Irv Shapiro of Ifbyphone

March 27, 2008

Our guest this morning was Irv Shapiro, CEO of Chicago based Ifbyphone.  Ifbyphone is a converged voice and web solutions company that made some big announcements at eComm a couple of weeks ago.  Irv told us a little about his company's vision for creating voice mashups, and then his offer to give away up to [...]

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A gentle criticism of F8

February 29, 2008

Inside Facebook reports on the recent changes made by Facebook in how developers can use "requests" and "notifications".  In principle, these are welcome changes designed to combat invitation spam, and when combined with the recent ban on forced invitations, they should make the experience of the Facebook platform better for everyone. Requests are the ubiquitous invitations [...]

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