Monthly Archives: December 2005

The Perils of Switching Blog Platforms

By Mark Evans | Published: December 31, 2005
I've noticed recently a few high-profile bloggers – Om Malik and Michael Arrington – have switched to a new blogging platform (Wordpress). Both have experienced technical woes and problems in moving their blogs but unlike the rest of us, they seem to have a small army of technical help and/or tech-savvy friends to work out [...]
Posted in Blog Services, Main Page | 4 Comments

The Battle over Net Neutrality

By Mark Evans | Published: December 31, 2005
I'm a bit late wading into the increasingly-contentious “net neutrality” bugaboo but if you've got some reading time over this last holiday weekend, you may want to check out a feature I wrote in today's National Post about what's going on. I've tried to boil down why some of the large U.S. telecom carriers such as [...]
Posted in ILEC News, Analysis, Main Page, Telecom Regulation, Web-based Services | 3 Comments

Must-Have Web 2.0 Apps..and Some Much-Needed Pragmatism

By Mark Evans | Published: December 30, 2005
TechCrunch (a.k.a. Michael Arrington) offers up a list of Web 2.0 applications he couldn't live without. It includes most of the usual suspects – FeedBurner, Bloglines, Flickr, Measuremap, Memeorandum, del.icio.us, Technorati and WordPress and Skype. It was a pleasant surprise to see Pandora, which offers a streaming music service (free and subscription-based) that adjusts to [...]
Posted in Main Page, Web 2.0, Web-based Services | 5 Comments

Google-Opera Deal…But Not "The" Deal

By Mark Evans | Published: December 29, 2005
In the wake of the speculation about Microsoft acquiring Opera, Google has done a one-year deal that will make it the default search engine for Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. The wireless space appears to be where Opera has a good chance of thriving as opposed to the desktop where it, at best, has 1% [...]
Posted in Browsers, Google, M&A, Main Page | 2 Comments

Nortel Sells Volt Delta Stake

By Mark Evans | Published: December 29, 2005
Only Nortel would come out with a double-shot of news during the week between Christmas and New Year. Earlier this week, it acquired Tasman Networks for $99.5-million in cash to establish a presence in the corporate router market. Today, it discloses the sale of a 24% stake in Volt Delta for $56.4-million. Nortel picked up the equity position [...]
Posted in Main Page | 1 Comment

FT Names Brin, Page Men of the Year

By Mark Evans | Published: December 29, 2005
The  Financial Times has named Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin as Men of the Year (apparently beating out Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko). I guess it's difficult to argue with the choice(s) given Google's growing presence and popularity but did Google really have more of an impact this year than [...]
Posted in M&A, Main Page, Web-based Services | 1 Comment
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