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BT could be forced to ensure that broadband is available to everyone in the UK as part of a beefed-up… [Muniwireless]

Sometimes, something so complicated can be so simple
bq. For Douglas Foreman, co-manager of TCW Galileo Aggressive Growth Equities fund, the hunt for danger begins with the balance sheet. “The balance sheet leads the income statement, especially on the way down, by six to 12 months,” he says. Foreman pays particular attention to days’ sales outstanding, [...]

If you were a telecom/networking/optical/something-that-makes-internet-go-really-fast start-up in 1999 with an esoteric product the venture capitalists did not understand, then boom they would write you a check for oh, I don’t know, $150 million. Zhone Technologies, Yipes and Calient are notables, of this $150 million club.
bq. When things turned sour in 2001, so did the fortunes [...]

Nvidia is learning one true fact of life - Loyalty is a four letter word for Microserfs. After breaking its back and coming up with a chip that launched XBox, the graphic chip maker recently lost the bake-off to arch rival, ATI Technologies.
The results of the bake-off were no surprise for anyone. Dean Takahashi of [...]

There must be a lot of hand wringing inside Cisco’s palatial San Jose head quarters. John Chambers cannot stop talking about how his company would change the world by massive VoIP’s (voice over internet) deployments. One question John: why is Transcom ripping out most of Cisco media gateways?
bq. Transcom, (formally DataVon) which arranges termination [...]

With the introduction of the 15 inch and 17 inch laptops, the attention has been diverted from the most important and perhaps, in my opinion, the real portable notebook category - the sub-5 pound portable.
Even though I do not travel quite as often as I used to back in 1999, still I like having the [...]