Mac Mini, the cheapest mac ever has been introduced and it clearly is a powerhouse. It is better than a iBook 14 inch and is competitively priced to some of the equally powered Windows machines. Scoble thinks it is a tad more expensive than machines sold in Wal-Mart. Same logic as why is Toyota more [...]

Is Apple Mac, John Kerry of computers? My Business 2.0 colleague Damon Darlin thinks so. “The Mac is to technology journalists what John Kerry is to journalists covering politics. They get all weak in the knees and suspend all critical analysis about what real people really want because they so want the Mac to win.” [...]

Okay I have been obsessing about BitTorrent a bit too much these days, but I guess it is a technology which puts me in the media. It is also an area rife with innovation. Sajeet Cherian, emailed about his new software program, Videora. Videora is the first personal video downloading program. Utilizing BitTorrent and Really Simple [...]

Andy points to a report on Pacific Epoch which says that there might be 2 million users of Skype’s chinese version. And then asks the most important question: “Everyone looks at Skype’s impact on telephony, but what about on IM? Of late I personally have been having more chats with people using Skype, than on [...]

Broadband and the presence of always-on connections is changing consumer behavior. From making phone calls over the Internet, to buying clothes online and downloading songs for 99 cents a track, the always on lifestyle is finally become pervasive. “People are more able and willing to just walk up to the Internet to get a quick [...]

This battle is as old as broadband in the US. Cable companies want to shut out independent ISPs from their cable networks, for good. ISPs are not taking it sitting down. Back in March 2002, the FCC defined cable modem service as an “information” service and not a telecom service, which helped the cable companies [...]

Forget wireline, when you can get 3G wireless. Novatel Wireless has just launched a series of new products that use 3G wireless as their primary pipe for voice and data connections. Novatel, more known for their wireless cards calls this offering, Ovation. These products hook to the Internet at about 384 kilobits per second and [...]

A few days ago I had written a post about why Baby Bells are thrilled with the Vonage ruling. And now you can see why. SBC Communications has announced launch of its residential VoIP service. While the service is in trials right now in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and San Antonio, the full-scale VoIP service [...]