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First is said no way, today it says maybe. Sprint is going to test and experiment with Flarion’s 4g wireless technology, according to this report. Speaking at a Lehman Brothers’ conference, Sprint Chief Operating Officer Len Lauer said that his company will be looking at various options for its high speed wireless mobile data service [...]

Bernie Ebbers, the deposed CEO of WorldCon (nee MCI) is in even bigger trouble according to the New York Post. A grand jury slapped six new charges onto its criminal case against ex-WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers yesterday - slamming him for filing fraudulent reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Post says. Each [...]

Richard “Dick” Notebaert may have saved the ship from sinking, but it would take a lot of effort and guts for him to get it moving. Qwest, the former Mountain Bells that was plundered by the Broadbandits, is facing some harsh realities, and things despite Dick’s best efforts don’t look too good, reports The New [...]

Wireless Number Portability is going national today when the second round of number switching kicks in. Last November the top 100 markets were eligible, but now it is everyone, especially the customers of regional carriers such as Alltel, US Cellular, Nextel Partners, and Western Wireless. During the first phase of WNP, there were fears that [...]

Last week I posted, Smells like 1999. Anil proved me right. New gigs on the left coast, rental market tightening up and of course the parties in full swing. We might be at the start of a tech comeback!
Anil Dash: Moving Forward: “I’m moving to San Francisco to be even more involved in Six Apart. [...]

A few weeks ago, when I was interviewing Rahul Sood, the founder of Voodoo PC for my story, The 22 Karat PC, he and I got into an argument over PCs and Apple Macs. “I would never use a PC notebook,” I said, and went on to wax eloquent about my PowerBook. He let [...]