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First Look: Skype First Ever TV Ads Coming – Preview on YouTube
Skype, a subsidiary of eBay, in another move to establish themselves as a standalone business will soon run TV ads branded only as Skype. We hear from a source that Skype is close to distributing its’ first ever global TV advertising campaign as well as an online, social media campaign. After digging around we confirmed ...
Broadband Stimulus – Update – The Proper Role for Broadband Mapping When Implementing Fiscal Stimulus
Ken Austin of Broadband Census has a great post on the status of the broadband stimulus. Through public hearings on broadband stimulus, it is starkly apparent that demand for spending broadband stimulus funds far outstrips the $7.2 billion in available funds. These hearings, by the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and Agriculture ...
Skype Is Not Dead – It’s Growing Folks They Are Not A Phone Company
With the hype market bursting (thank God), there is a renewed emphasis on quality. This is great news for companies who are actually executing like Skype. Skype, most known for being forgotten when eBay brought them, has been coming on strong in this down market. My Angle: Skype has a massive user base and a ...
Skype Goes SIP Tapping PBX Functionality to Bridge Old School and New School
Skype today announced the beta version of Skype For SIP for Business users. SIP, short for Session Initiation Protocol, is an open standard and the leading voice over Internet protocol used in businesses telephony networks at millions of locations globally. This is an interesting announcement in the heated and competitive Unified Communications area. Over the ...
Good Old Cisco Back to Networking Networks Again – This Time It’s Different
I will be digesting the Cisco announcement over the next few weeks in an effort to get “my angle” out there. Outside of today’s Cisco is competing with partners message, there is a bigger picture going on. The word unified is interesting. In the past I’ve been dissappointed with the Unified Communication message and now ...
Interview with SearchMe CEO Randy Adams
Bloomberg has an interview in depth with Randy Adams the CEO of the visual search engine Searchme.com. Randy is a seriel entrepreneur and friend of SiliconAngle.com. Randy is part of the community of SiliconAngle, but more importantly a seasoned executive and entrepreneur. Randy has some great lessons on what it’s like being an entrepreneur as ...
Blogging Lost Its Social Edge – How To View Communities – Worth Reading If Involved in Communities
I launched SiliconAngle two weeks ago to see what could happen with my social graph and friends. So this article on the dynamics of a community caught my attention. Then reading it it became clear that this article titled “Attack From Within” was very well written and informative. If your into social media you might ...
Inside A CEO Investor Pitch
Randy Adams of Searchme is a “friend of ours”here at SiliconAngle. As part of the community, I asked Randy to share his recent investment presentation to us. Not everyone can get to see the inside workings of when a CEO has to got out and raise money. It’s not an easy task especially in this ...
Broadband Stimulus Receives Positive Review – Of Course We’ve Been Waiting for This for 10 years
Many of us entrepreneurs and researchers have spend years and tons of money passionately building out new broadband technologies. Many of us have given up over the years. That is changing now. Why? Our government finally is moving fast with a Broadband plan. Broadband Consensus has a beat on what’s happening and the reviews are ...
The OPA Wants a Renaissance, They Won’t Get It
The Online Publishers Association have released a new set of standards that they hope will not only supplant the banner ad, but will set into motion what they’re calling a “a renaissance of creative advertising on the Internet that meets the needs of marketers by better integrating their messages into the fabric of the Web.” ...
