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WSJ broke the news that two companies have reached a tentative deal and it could be announced pretty soon. According to the report, AT&T CEO David Dorman will become the president of the joint company, while SBC Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre is going to retain those two positions. AT&T will have three board seats [...]

Why AT&T is a great deal for SBC?

AT&T and SBC Communications are close to shaking their mitts on a $16-billion merger, which will see former Ma Bell become part of the SBC empire. Both Wall Street Journal and The New York Times are reporting that both boards met this afternoon to begin deliberations on the [...]

For a few days, I have seen a Packet 8 meme form slowly. Most VoIP bloggers have started to dig their teeth into the prospects of the company, which is a proxy for what stock market punters really think about VoIP. Packet 8 is the video service of 8X8 Inc which trades under the ticker, [...]

Red Herring (the new one) reports that Nicholas Negroponte, author of Being Digital and the Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at MIT, has roped in Advanced Micro Devices, Google, Motorola, Samsung, and News Corp. to build a $100 PC which will have a 14-inch color screen, AMD chips, and will run Linux software and will [...]

The instant and on-demand desires of a bunch of geeks is going to change the television game, and the revolution has already started, says The New York Times. They point to MythTV, an open source PVR technology, Bit Torrent and Videora, a software I pointed to a month ago.
We have to try as an [...]

It is good to see Mike Masnick and I are thinking along the same lines about watching television content on our handsets. Our opinions are slightly different, but still I like this point of view - “Even if you can tie entertainment functions to a mobile device, it doesn’t mean you can do it very [...]