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Well its not as big as the Dodgers-Diamondbacks-Yankees three way deal for the Big Unit. But it is still a big enough deal for me to notice. ITC^DeltaCom, has called off its deal with Florida Digital Network and Network Telephone Company. The deal was announced on September 8, 2004. No termination fees are payable by either company, and each company will bear its own merger-related expenses.

“While we are disappointed that we are unable to move forward with the transaction, we believe this mutual termination is in the best interest of our shareholders, customers and employees,” said Larry Williams, ITC^DeltaCom Chairman and CEO. “We will continue to focus on the successful execution of our operating plan.” Continue »

The Broadband Daily: Karl Bode says that when it comes to broadband over power-lines being anything more than a niche technology, believe it when you see it. Continue »

The Broadband Daily: James Enck talks to Gary Lerhaupt, the developer of Torrentocracy, the fusion of BitTorrent with open-source PVR, and more recently, Prodigem, a web-based, largely idiot-proof system for allowing independent content creators to create hosted torrents. He created one in less time that it takes me to smoke a Dunhill. Continue »

Business 2.0: Not since the halcyon days of the mid-1990s, when Motorola’s (MOT) Star-Tac was redefining the look and feel of mobile phones, has the company enjoyed this much buzz. Its sleek new Razr V3 — a design masterpiece doubling as a quad-band cell phone — is so hot that carriers can’t keep it in stock. More on IPhone and how RAZR came into being. Continue »

Business 2.0: From text messaging, to e-mail, to photo messaging, to video e-mail, and then to television on cell-phone handsets, Sprint PCS (PCS) has always been at the vanguard of introducing bandwidth-hogging, cutting-edge services that induce folks to part with extra dollars. Continue »

E Week: Trillian 3.0, the cross network IM client is getting the Rendezvous religion. “The Rendezvous protocol, which is a key feature in Apple’s Mac OS X platform, allows users to set up a network without any configuration. In the new Trillian 3.0, the Rendezvous plug-in allows employees on the same LAN to automatically discover each other for messaging, file transfers and videoconferencing.” Oh while most of us OS-X uses get to use the fabulous technology for free, Trillian 3.0 users will have to cough-up $25 to buy the application. Continue »

Jeff Pulver: Open source software communications will begin to influence the VoIP market in a big way next year, according to Jeff Pulver, who heads the industry standard VON (Voice on the Net) conferences and publications. In his predictions for 2005, Pulver also said some VoIP start-ups will flame out while others will launch IPOs. In addition, governments will take harder looks at regulating VoIP and Congress will consider rewriting the Telecommunications Act of 1996 with an eye to VoIP. Continue »

Mobile Pipeline: In 2004, cities started treating wireless broadband like sewage and water, converged devices started flying off the shelves and the U.S. wireless industry got smaller. Continue reading.. Continue »