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The regional Bell companies say this time they’re serious about broadband. I think they missed their opportunity. When cable operators were fighting mandatory open access in 1999-2000, the Bells could have positioned DSL as the open alternative for broadband. They could have leveraged independent ISPs and content providers as an unbeatable sales [...]

Back in the day, I did a profile of Inara Networks, one of the ill-fated “God Box” companies that cropped up in optical networking a few years back. A good pal of ours points out that there are many parallel between the god box companies of the optical era, and the WLAN switch vendors that [...]

AT&T has started to offer shared plans similar to Verizon’s Freedom package. AT&T One aims to simplify life for consumers, but according to C|Net usually combo plans confuse consumers. The plans have been introduced in select markets (Tampa, Florida and San Diego, California) and offer unlimited night and weekend minutes that can be used by [...]

it’s not about innovation or low cost. It’s about both. Our fundamental value proposition is high-tech, low cost. You gotta have both - Carly Fiorina in an interview with C/Net News.com

Business 2.0 - Cover Story :: The tech industry is poised for a major eat-or-be-eaten phase. Who dines, and who’s bait? The answers will reshape the IT landscape — and dictate much about the future of jobs and investment.
Erick Schonfeld and I worked on this story together, and came up with a few interesting combinations [...]

BusinessWeek’s Stephen Wildstrom says that electronics manufacturers should “lose the extras” on their DVD players, and that by adding Ethernet ports and DVD recorders to their players they’re just making things needlessly complicated for consumers. He’s right that Panasonic’s DMR-E60S is remarkably graceless in its operation, but we’re talking about a first-generation of high-end electronics [...]