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Rumors are flying that–after long wait–Verizon will finally flip the switch on Ev-DO in the Bay area. A reader from Mountain View pinged me earlier and said that he was getting some serious EVDO signal. Taking his advice, I decided to walk around San Francisco (I need the exercise and it was a rare sunny [...]

NPR’s On The Media has a piece on my “GoogleNet” story in Business 2.0 latest issue. Bob Garfield asks the questions, I answer them. Interested in that podcast? Download it here.

Charlie Sierra says, Seriously this showdown (between Apple and music industry) is the classic battle between distribution and content. So sooner or later they’ll get in each other’s business. Buying content to boost the value of your distribution asset is the age-old Turner/Murdoch play.

Justin Hibbard says HP is getting rid to sell its networking business, with private equity buyout giants Francisco Partners and Citigroup as likely buyout candidates. With sales of about $450 million, its likely to fetch about $500 million. [ via Business Week Deal Flow]

And we thought WWF was scary! Check this out! By the way I am up against Creative Commons Blog tomorrow.

It is not going to be a happy weekend at the Jobs’. Both of Steve’s babies - Apple and Pixar - are in bit of a pickle. Pixar is being informally investigated by the SEC which has asked for more information from the company after it missed its second quarter earnings estimates because of [...]