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I know I know - it is like poking a rattle snake with your foot. But I am feeling feisty this morning. Now that Esther Dyson doesn’t really have anything to say about anything (smart guy in her company is doing his own thing), she has decided that comedy is the next big thing.
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A year ago it would have been impossible to read a story about VoIP in a major news daily forget about smaller town and city newspapers. Star Telegram has this interesting little piece about VoIP and how is is spreading in smaller towns where people are sick and tired of paying huge phone bills. There [...]

I am sure all of you have watched the SBC ad promoting its DSL technology, you know the one which goes something like “… twenty five years ago an idea was planted to transmit photo, and data over the Internet …” blah blah! The ad pans from Chicago street to an underground conduit. Anyway is [...]

Vonage, the broadband phone company has been near perfect in keeping its hype machine humming nicely. The company continues to garner favorable coverage, has managed to rile the established phone company giants, and forced some to change their ways. Not bad for a company with less than 100,000 users. Its growth curve has been pretty [...]

MacDailyNews has a link to this Washington Post article on Real Player 10.
bq. “In some ways, the new RealPlayer 10 is the worst of all of Real’s releases — after years of complaints about the same problems, the company made only token efforts to address them. And the program’s major new feature, an online music [...]

Carl Ichan is a man who never says never. After tussling with the likes of Teddy Forstman of Forstmann Little & Company, Gary Winnick he is now picking a big fight with Tom Gores. Ichan, who specialized in buying distressed assets and bankrupt companies is trying to muscle in on Gores’ recent attempt to buy [...]