Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:10:24 GMT http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/ Ruminations about business of IT, new concepts, convergence of IT, PM and entrepreneurship and many other similar or dissimilar idiosyncratic ideas http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/303/ Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:26:52 GMT Verizon recently won a $58 million lawsuit against Vonage and it may be able to get a permanent injunction to stop Vonage from offering VoIP services. It is quite likely that the Verizon victory in the patent infringement case is going to intensify the war amongst a number of telecom players. Busine... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/281/ Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:40:17 GMT Success breeds confidence. Too much confidence - call it hubris - takes one overboard and from then on for most it is a downhill journey. Has worked for eons for people, companies and countries. But, the cycle keeps on repeating. One reason is that the shift from super-confidence needed for super-su... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/274/ Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:45:57 GMT The king of acquisitions is at it again. Cisco, which has acquired 117 companies since 1993 including 69 since 2000, is on another buying spree. This time it is related to social networking technologies. First, it bought Five Across, Inc., a vendor of social networking marketplace, on February 8, 20... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/273/ Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:41:24 GMT Ever heard of Barney Google? He was the original Google who came along in 1919. A cigar smoking little guy with big eyes, Barney Google was a hugely popular cartoon character created by Billy DeBeck. He was also a horseracing and boxing aficionado. And, he started a spawn culture that made many othe... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/257/ Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:17:10 GMT Twitter was started by a group of folks at Odeo - now called Obvious - as a side project. The SMS social updater has grown and a number of people are experimenting with it. Many are using it send out updates to subscriber about downtime and development. http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/255/ Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:15:25 GMT StumbleUpon helps web surfers discover and share great websites. One blogger couldn't believe when his blog increased its subscriber base from 17 to 476 in just one day. As close to 2 million users have found there is really not much to using it. http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/253/ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:56:45 GMT Steve Jobs made a case for DRM-free music in his Thoughts of Music. But, many artists' work is Creative Commons licensed and iTunes wraps even them in DRM. Requests by some of those artists to turn off DRM were not heeded to by Apple. In his blog, Peter Lewis, argues why Apple cannot allow DRM-free ... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/251/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:32:51 GMT Andrew Rollert, a 32-year old from Cambridge, Massachusetts hates to look for parking and wants to use to the mobile technologies to solve this problem. He also thinks that there are many more like him. So, he has launched an online marketplace where drivers with mobile phones can not only reserve p... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/241/ Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:43:59 GMT Steve Jobs' essay, Thoughts on Music., still continues to fuel the debate. Latest to join it is the Washington Post's Personal Technology Columnist Rob Pegoraro, who in his column, Time to Face the Music on File Sharing, talked about few myths regarding digital media market. One of them is: "Apple ... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/GigaBizByte/240/ Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:40:48 GMT Attack ads work - ask any politicians and he or she will tell you that they influence the results. Ask John Kerry. He will blame the Swift-boat ads to his loss in last election. But, then many political pundits also say that attack ads indicate the weak positions of the parties resorting to those ad...