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David Sifry explains why he doesn’t want to talk aboutthe funding he received. Sifry is being modest and I like the reasons he gives, and respect him for that. “Making a big deal about VC investments is unnecessary, it seems to me. One of the biggest reasons for the dot-com crash was an imbalance of [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Motorola’s turnaround efforts might be getting a helping hand from India. The company is said to be helping rapidly build and grow Tata Telecom’s wireless networks in India. Tata uses CDMA technology to provide wireless, and local services in most of India. The company also owns VSNL, the largest long distance company in [...]

RCN, a triple play cable company, after spending four months in bankruptcy has filed a reorganization plan and plans to come out of Chapter 11 by end of 2004, reports Wall Street Journal. The Princeton, NJ company plans to reduce its debt to $480 million from $1.66 billion. Whichever way it turns out, RCN has [...]

Take one part wireless, shake it with equal amount of security and you have the recipe for a cocktail venture capitalists can’t resist. Cranite Systems and Vernier Networks both recently raised VC dollars. Cranite which develops security software for wireless local area networks, snagged $10 million while Vernier focuses hardware closed its series D round [...]

I’ve spent the last two weeks monkeying around with the Samsung SCH-A790, and even though I’m no big shot, globe-trotting executive (the type of folks this unit was ostensibly made for), I love it. For the truly fortunate masses that don’t waste precious mental bandwidth tracking the (oft arcane) name and number of each new [...]

Business 2.0: VOIP technology is appealing and a potential money saver, but large companies should take their time in switching to it. (PDF)
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