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You can tell a lot about a company, and its future from one simple metric: sales per employee. It is also a good yardstick to measure how efficiently a company is run. Albert Lin of American Technology Research thinks that operating income per employee is a good barometer to a company’s future. He scrolled through [...]

The new issue of Business 2.0 has started shipping, and I am frankly quite excited about this one. Many reasons - the first being that I wrote the cover story, The New Road To Riches (See Cover), which is about how tiny start-ups are shunning venture capital and going out and building businesses on a [...]

Brad Templeton, one of the first few dotcommers has created a wireless VoIP Phone Booth at Burning Man and nearly 1600 calls were made.
The Black Rock Desert is where the rocket cars broke the sound barrier. It’s a perfectly flat dry lakebed, the location miles from the nearest village of Gerlach, and about 90 [...]

Texas Instruments is not convinced that WiMax will replace DSL anytime, according to Infoworld. Joe Cruppi, a senior executive with the company chatted with the magazine and had to say about Intel’s claim of WiMAX as a DSL replacement.
But Crupi is skeptical of these plans, citing as an example the Broadband Wireless Internet Forum (BWIF), [...]

InfoWorld reports that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer each received total compensation of $901,667 in Microsoft Corp.’s 2004 fiscal year, up 4.4 percent from $863,447 one year ago. Why did they get the raises? They clearly did not merit it? The net income from “continuing operations” that is excluding all the cash they generate from [...]

Light Reading: Cablecos are dead serious about VoIP.
Lingo Link: Primus’ Lingo service will let its users call each other from anywhere on the planet for $8 a month. Calling non-Lingo or PSTN customers cost 3 cents a minute, or whatever long distance charges apply. Idea here is to get the viral marketing going. Interestingly, Primus [...]