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Most MCI shareholders are for the first time thrilled with Qwest’s latest offer. Q is now offering $27.50 a share, or about $8.9 billion for MCI, which in my opinion is $8.9 billion minus cash too much. Nevertheless that’s neither here or there, but still… Carlos Slim, the single largest MCI shareholder told The Wall [...]

They say when its too good to be true, it probably is! For a few years the break neck growth and gigantic momentum of UT Starcom has confounded many in the telecom space. It kept on winning business - everywhere from Vietnam to China to Africa to India. It started selling DSL gear at Filene’s [...]

Qwest is not backing down, and has decided to up the ante in its desperate bid to takeover MCI. New price - $8.9 billion or roughly $0.90 a share more than its previous offer of $25.60 a share. The new offer is $13.50 a share in cash and $14 in stock. Looks like there is [...]

Just when you thought biometrics was a way to protect data and cars, some folks have come up with an amazingly analog way of over-coming the problem. Chop someone’s finger, open the door to a car, a house or unlock their laptop. This happened to one poor accountant in Malaysia, who had the indignity of [...]

Everybody seems to be getting on a froth about how SBC is not working with Vonage on 911 service. Red Herring, ZDNet and everyone else has picked up on this story. I feel this is a gross over reaction, and in many cases no effort was made to present the other side of the story. [...]

As predicted previously, big media, aka The Guardian has discovered the Yahoo mojo. John Battelle points to an article by Ben Hammersly in the Guardian says Google has been overtaken by Yahoo. Here is what I wrote previously Battelle notes, “this kind of coverage has got to get under the skin of those at the [...]