Phone companies are never to blame for anything. It is always someone else’s fault. Now, Verizon is blaming a beaver for being the cause of a service outage in North Eastern Michigan. The outage began shortly after 8 a.m. on Thursday and lasted about six hours. … Read More »
Archive for July 2004
Carlos Slim, the stealth telecom tycoon resigned from the board of SBC Communications, according to a 8-K filed with the SEC. Reuters reports that he has left for personal reasons. I take that with a grain of salt. Given his holdings in MCI, … Read More »
Silicon Valley is desperately trying to bring back the 1990s, betting that Google will jump-start another bull run that will make at least some insider very very very rich! My guess is that they will have to wait a little bit longer, for there … Read More »
My favorite waste of time the morning after Boston Sox have been ground to pulp is reading the Boston papers. New York dailies of course would be singing the praises of their team. And who will not applaud Derek Jeter’s sac-fly! But reading the Boston papers … Read More »
I have said that time and again. Apple, Netscape and Palm are three companies which started out with monopoly market share and were reduced to bit players mostly because of hubris, and some management cock-ups. If one believes what one reads on Engadget, then one … Read More »
This field bag, that my wife laughingly refers to as my “man purse” is a simple field bag I picked up at The Discovery Channel store (or equivalent) at the mall a few years back. I got it to carry some gadgets around but … Read More »
This really has nothing to do with broadband really, but more of a self indulgent moment of nostalgia. I got an email from a hack whose work I admire, Ben Silverman. He has been writing for the New York Post, but has recently left to work … Read More »
Is your phone a flash light, a vanity mirror? If not, perhaps then it is time for you to switch to one of the many new handsets which are very high tech, but do a lot of lo-tech things, reports the Wall Street Journal. The … Read More »
WSJ reports that the SEC has asked telecom companies for details about how they count subscribers; a routine request, but looking for inconsistencies. Those who have been asked to provide data include Cingular, AT&T, SBC, and Verizon. The enforcement-division request is part of the SEC’s new … Read More »
It was only a few years ago that we would eagerly await data from firms like IDC and Gartner Dataquest about the overall PC sales. We did so, because we would want a window into the future demand for chips. The memory chip demand, the processor … Read More »
Creativity is often trumped by conformity in Taiwan, a rule of thumb that has largely guided its businesses down the path of copy-cat products that are lower-risk, but also lower-margin, writes EE Times columnist Mike Clendenin. He is right – that is why we have … Read More »
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