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It has taken me almost six months since I started working on my first ever book, Broadbandits: Inside the $750 billion Heist, but it is finally done. I shipped back the edits last night to the publishers, John Wiley & Company. I am waiting for the final galleys right now. Perhaps it would take another [...]

“She’s a porn star, he’s a sex swami who wants to be John Travolta in “Grease” in this delightful screwball comedy,” writes Charles Taylor in Salon Magazine, in the process becoming one of the few critics who love this movie. “The Guru” kicks off with a neat joke about cultural cross-pollination [...]

This just in via a PR source: Ron Rivest, an MIT professor and the Âï”R” in RSA Security, has started a new company called Peppercoin. His co-founder in this new venture is Silvio Micali. Rivest and Silvio Micali are the co-founders of the Cryptography and Information Security Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory [...]

A report by Tim Long, analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston crossed my desk this morning. It was somewhat of a bleak take on the wireless handset business in 2003. He fears a lot more competition for the M.E.N (Motorola, ; and Nokia.) The competition is going to come from Asian handset makers, and if [...]

in case you are interested, today is the day Bill Gates got creamed i.e. hit on the face by a cream pie. For further details and/or instant recall visit CNET

About three months ago when I started to look into the whole television/PVR model, it became obvious that consumers love the technology but the pioneers were on a losing streak. TiVo/Replay are fine devices - but the companies are in poor shape. The barrage of email which followed has the same self righteousness as those [...]