Monthly Archives: August 2004

VOIP Hype Alive & Well

By Mark Evans | Published: August 31, 2004
For those who were concerned the buzz about VOIP was beginning to wane, fear not. The fine folks at the Yankee Group issued a bubbly report earlier this week that forecasts there will be 17.5 million U.S. households with Internet telephony service by year-end 2008. The Yankee Group also expects 56% of the homes with [...]
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Microsoft Has Lost its Mojo

By Mark Evans | Published: August 31, 2004
You really have to wonder whether Microsoft has any sense of strategic momentum given its decision to delay the release of its new operating system, Longhorn, until early-2006. Even when it does come out, Longhorn will be a minor upgrade over XP. Then, you have Microsoft's controversial XP Service Pack 2, which is supposed to [...]
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Frank Dunn's John Roth Obsession

By Mark Evans | Published: August 29, 2004
For the past few months, I've been a little sympathetic about ex-Nortel CEO Frank Dunn and his senior management team – believing they did yeoman's work bringing the company back to health before they were fired in April for reasons that have not been disclosed yet. In the background, however, was this troubling belief Dunn [...]
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Vonage Raises More VC

By Mark Evans | Published: August 26, 2004
Can someone explain to me how Vonage manages to raise an addition US$105 million in venture capital? Each time this company convinces investors to pony up more cash, you have to be impressed by the selling powers of Vonage CEO Jeff Citron. With apologies, however, to VOIP advocate Jeff Pulver, Internet telephony is still an [...]
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Bill Owens' First 100 Days

By Mark Evans | Published: August 21, 2004
When Bill Owens took the helm of Nortel in late-April, you knew he had a number of huge challenges ahead. A little more than 100 days later, you have to give him credit for taking dramatic moves to re-invent the telecom equipment maker. Rather than moving slowly, the decision to eliminate 3,500 employees and fire [...]
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Ultra-fast DSL

By Mark Evans | Published: August 19, 2004
If the folks at the University of Toronto and Carleton University are onto something, DSL at 400 to 500 megabytes/second could be on the horizon. According to an article in the latest issue of Nano Letters, a scientific journal, DSL routers could be souped up using a new polymer material that could be integrated into [...]
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