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Oregonian reports that Intel Corp CEO Craig Barrett, got down on his knees in front of more than 6,000 technology managers, and begged forgiveness at the Gartner Group conference. Intel had five projects to be scrapped or delayed; it is sitting on a record inventory that reduced third-quarter profit growth to the slowest pace in [...]

Matt Maier has a fantastic piece on the Sony Ericsson turnaround today. He is talking up a storm with Urban Gillstrom, president of Sony Ericsson and an avowed gadget freak, sat down with Business 2.0 to talk about the death of the PDA, Sony Ericsson’s future, and where the convergence trend will take the wireless [...]

After a long wait, Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist has come out in paperback. I hope you would be kind enough and buy the book this time around. I could use billions of dollars in royalties. At present the paperback’s rank is a pathetic 731,286. I hope to see some surge in this. [...]

FCC and Justice Department have both given two thumbs up to the Cingular-AT&T Wireless merger. What a giant! With nearly 47.6 million customers across the country they are now ahead of Verizon Wireless by nearly 7 million customers. I guess given their size, one could expect them to exert more control over the handset makers [...]

Just got off the phone with Boingo Wireless’ President and COO Dave Hagan. The idea was to get a clear sense of what was the real deal with Boingo-Vonage relationship. I guess, despite the press releases and all that, it was much ado about nothing. Hagan described it as a marketing partnership. No money changes [...]

Samsung has long realized the cell phones are part of our lifestyle, a fashion accessory and not just a device to call others. Well in an effort to spread this message, they have repeatedly teamed up with fashion designers, especially in emerging markets such as India. However, they are now bringing that model to the [...]