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Alex did what eWeek didn’t: he called Microserf David Proctor on his double talk! eWeek caught up with David Proctor, hardware lead for the Microsoft Portable Media Center, who predicts that in two years the “Portable Media Players will come equipped with 125GB of data storage by 2007 for recording and storing Hi-Def video, and [...]

WiFiNetworking News is reporting that French independent, Altitude Telecom, the only owner of a nationwide 3.5 Ghz license in France, plans to use Alvarion gear to build a broadband wireless network in the country. It is a proprietary technology, like most fixed wireless hardware vendors. France Telecom is also mucking around with Aperto Networks’ fixed [...]

Thomas Hall, Former Qwest has pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of falsifying documents, ending the first criminal case stemming from a federal investigation of the company. His cooperation resulted in prosecutors dropping three counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud. Hall will face up to a year in prison and [...]

Anil turned me on to Dan Wood, the programmer behind Watson utility and Karelia Software. Apparently, Sun which has bought his company for an undisclosed amount of money is mothballing the product. I feel for Wood, who worked really hard on the software, which was mercilessly stabbed in the back by Apple which mimicked it [...]

Welcome To Broadband City - Business Week jumps on the Metro Nets bandwagon and pens in my opinion a full bodied piece.
New technologies — which extend the range of wireless broadband from Wi-Fi’s cafe scale to metro-size — can cost a fraction of what competing cable and phone systems must pay to dig up [...]

Nextel CEO Tim Donahue has started make polite noises about the spectrum swap. He pointed out that Nextel had some minor quibbles with FCC’s decision and those can be “fine-tuned” through an erratum.  Fine tuned means that FCC doesn’t have to go for lengthy public hearings and can keep pesky rivals such as Verizon Wireless from [...]