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The Supreme Court is hearing the Brand-X case and this all important case is going to a large extent decide the future of Broadband competition. Brand X case puts three major associations against the consumers and independent ISPs. FCC, National Cable & Telecommunications Association, ( the mouth piece for the likes of Comcast Corp. and [...]

Trump’s various towers are getting a lot of bandwidth, thanks to GigaBeam’s WiFiber technology. Using company’s wireless technology, Microwave Satellite Technologies (MST,) a small New York City service providers is connecting the Trump International Hotel & Tower at Columbus Circle and a residential Trump building, Trump Place at 180 Riverside Boulevard in New York City. [...]

In the early days of digital video recorders when folks like Michael Lewis would write tomes in praise of TiVo and its ability to skip ads. We seem to have come a full circle - now TiVo is experimenting with pop-up advertisements. Funny - how life turns out! The way I see it, TiVo is [...]

Matt Maier is taking a might bat at the Gizmondo, which despite being a sweet looking feature packed device might find going tough in the long run. All those B-List celebrities might not be able to save the device that runs on Microsoft .CE operating system. Business 2.0: Nokia’s launch of the N-Gage didn’t [...]

Ammar Hannafi, Cisco’s Vice President of New Business Ventures quietly left the equipment giant and has joined Alloy Ventures as a general partner. During Ammar’s tenure, Cisco’s Business Development Group completed over 50 acquisitions including optical networking and integrated voice and data infrastructure and applications. Maybe he got bored with small deals that Cisco has [...]

McLeodUSA, the beleaguered competitive local exchange carrier which has been through bankruptcy once before is shutting down its Texas operations, and apparently has laid off employees from their Austin offices. I have heard that they will shut down their offices in Texas - Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. I have left a voice [...]