crazy
Selling ads against search - it seemed like such a simple thing. But while CEO Terry Semel fumbled and bumbled, Google pulled ahead.
By Fred Vogelstein
Terry Semel was pissed. The Yahoo CEO had offered to buy Google for roughly $3 billion, but the young Internet search firm wasn't interested. Once upon a time, Google's founders had come to Yahoo for an infusion of cash; now they were turning up their noses at what Semel believed was a perfectly reasonable offer. Worse, Semel's lieutenants were telling him that, in fact, Google was probably worth at least $5 billion.
This was way back in the summer of 2002, two years before Google went public. An age before Google's stock soared above $500 a share, giving the company a market value of $147 billion -- right behind Chevron and just ahead of Intel.
Countries with little copper legacy are doing their best to bypass the centuries old access methodology and going straight to fiber, stringing it right to their citizens’ doorsteps. This is especially true in the case of smaller nations – like Slovenia and now Lithuania, one of the former Soviet republics.
TEO, the Lithuanian incumbent that was privatized back in 1998 (and now co-owned by a consortium that includes TeliaSonera) has undertaken a FTTH build out that will bring speeds of up to 1 Gigabit/second. The FTTH network will be rolled out in the five biggest cities of Lithuania, with Vilnius likely to see the launch of in June 2007.
What is Yeigo?
Yeigo is an innovative application for your mobile phone which uses your phone’s internet connection, (don’t worry, your phone has one) to offer you cut-price calls and SMS messages.
Got something to say? Talk whenever you want, for as long as you want: calls to other people using Yeigo are free , and you’ll save up to 80% on calls to those who don’t have Yeigo.
Not in the mood to talk? Send SMS messages to anyone - for up to 90% less.
Make calls and send SMSs the same way you always have to anyone, anywhere in the world – quickly and easily – whether you’re on the go, in the office, or relaxing at home.
Yeigo is simple, Yeigo is smart. If your phone is supported by Yeigo, register an account, receive an SMS from Yeigo, download the application and start saving.
What does it cost?
Calls to other Yeigo users: FREE
Calls to those without Yeigo are charged at applicable rates. You can achieve major cost savings of up to 80% when calling people not on Yeigo, anywhere in the world.
SMS messages to all persons are charged at applicable rates. Here you can achieve savings of up to 90% when sending a message to anyone, anywhere in the world.
All credit for calls and SMS messages is prepaid.
The costs mentioned exclude the cost of establishing an internet connection. Whichever medium you use to connect to the internet, through Wi-Fi, EDGE or 3G, you will be charged accordingly by your service provider. It is advisable to purchase a data bundle to lower your internet connection costs. Visit your service provider to see what data plans are available to reduce your internet cost.
What do I need to use Yeigo?
To get started with Yeigo, you need:
- A SIM card from your local service provider (to be able to establish a data connection). Some Wi-Fi compatible handsets do not require a SIM card when using Wi-Fi.
- Sufficient credit balance or data bundle with your local service provider to access an internet data network - Wi-Fi, GPRS/EDGE or 3G network.
- A Yeigo compatible mobile handset.
- The Yeigo application to be installed on your mobile handset.
As long as there is an active connection to the internet, Yeigo can support voice calls and SMS messaging.
Yeigo uses your handset?s connection to the internet to make calls over the internet using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies, instead of the traditional networks used for cellular calls. Your phone can connect to the internet over Wi-Fi, GPRS/EDGE, 3G and other emerging mediums.
Through its network of servers, Yeigo is able to support VoIP calls made through the Yeigo application and terminate them to the required destination world-wide. With its quality infrastructure, Yeigo is able to offer secure conversations and fine sound quality.
Yeigo is optimised to support VoIP calls over the available data connections by dynamically and seamlessly adjusting to the network conditions and capabilities of the mobile handset, even when in motion, giving you the very best in VoIP communication.
my record uptime box just blew a power supply. i have quite a history with this box. it once ran red hat 7.3 and i decided to install gentoo on it remotely. besides that actually almost working, i should point out that it was a pentium 233 mmx with a mere 128mb ram. gentoo took over a week to build properly. then once it was up it stayed up..... for ages
client ns2.obsidian.co.za
[date]
Tue May 22 15:56:43 SAST 2007
[uname]
Linux ns2 2.6.8-ck5 i586
[osversion]
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
[uptime]
15:56:43 up 637 days, 21:18, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Google phone rumor, end of 2007? - A report from Digitimes (via Engadget) says the Google phone is coming from HTC, as early as the end of 2007. If that’s really true, I’m not sure which I want more, iPhone or Google phone.
[gigaOM]
Bush Almost Blows Himself Up - That would have been interesting. [digg]
Candirú - It is feared by the natives because it is attracted to urine or blood, and if the bather is nude it will swim into an orifice (the anus or vagina, or even the penis—and deep into the urethra). It then erects its spine and begins to feed on the - [kung fu grippe]
