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BusinessWeek online just announced their list of the 50 top performing US companies….eBay and Yahoo did really well, but what’s interesting is that Microsoft wasn’t even on there. Qualcomm makes it to the list.

Keeping with all the buzz around WiMAX, here is another piece of news. Intel and Alcatel have teamed up to develop WiMAX silicon and equipment, which they will bring to market by second half of 2005.

If you are Intel, then this is going to sting really bad. The DISC/Apex GameBox is going to powered by AMD’s Athlon XP2000 chip, making it the second game box to be powered by an AMD chip. Nvidia’s GeForce4 MX Graphics will be the graphics chip in the new device. The ApeXtreme (pronounced Apex Extreme) [...]

Apparently I am not the only one who loves Mirra and its back-up drives. The company just got a $8 million cash infusion from venture capitalists including Sequoia Capital. Sequoia Capital Partner Sameer Gandhi has joined Mirra’s board of directors. The investment will be used to accelerate Mirra’s product development schedules, retail market penetration and [...]

Well this is my lame attempt at being funny, but this might be a good opportunity for fame and fortune for outsourced workers in the US. Apparently in keeping with the trend of globalization, there is surge in demand for “white skin” actors in Bollywood, the Indian film industry. Any takers?

Yesterday, I did a quick summation of a report from ABI research on how broadband gateways were good for DSL guys. Well that innocous looking post got attention from some serious heavy weights, who corrected me, and said that the ABI analyst was completely off base. Since I did not really have an opinion on [...]