Craig McCaw, the wireless zen master, and market non-pareil has made his “check mate move.” His company Clearwire has raised $260 million in debt in order to expand company’s fixed wireless network. (Take that Vonage!) As a background, McCaw was the founder… Read More »
Archive for August 2005
Just to keep all of ya updated, it has been a really hectic week, and tomorrow is shaping up to be equally rough. I am going to be in a blog-slow mode as I have to spend my cycles finishing up lots of work for the… Read More »
FT has a piece about how Verizon wants to change some terms of its proposed $8.5 billion deal with MCI. It doesn’t want to “be subject to corporate governance principles which would mean Verizon CEO/Chairman Ivan Seidenberg could not keep both gigs. That’s fine but… Read More »
No seriously…. As Labor Day approaches, a new survey from Harris Interactive finds that two-thirds (66%) of US adults have taken or will take a vacation this summer … will pay extra for a hotel room with fat pipe …. people you are supposed to… Read More »
Japanese electronics OEM Thanko has introduced the Thanko USB Radio in Japan which looks pretty cool. The USB Radio draws all its power from the USB bus and is slightly bigger than a key chain flash drive. Why would you want a radio on your… Read More »
Tracy Hooten of The Student Tablet PC blog has ordered a Toshiba M200 Tablet PC and has posted on Tablet PC Buzz that according to the Toshiba web site is now shipping with a wide-angle display. The wide-angle coupled with the 1400×1050 resolution… Read More »
CompUSA is running a good deal on the Toshiba R15–S822 Tablet PC. The R15 is listed at only $1400 (after $200 mail-in rebate) which is a great deal compared to other sites. This is the same Tablet PC Eric Rice discussed on the Tablet… Read More »
Lora Heiny has some additional information about the mobile vision laid out during the IDF keynote speech (webcast replay here) by Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini. Otellini demonstrated (20 minute mark in the webcast) a portable computer with a 5” screen that displays in either… Read More »
+ Mark Evans: Given VCs love liqudity events such as IPOs, you have wonder whether Vonage and CEO Jeff Citron made a strategic mistake by waiting too long to do an IPO. My take is Vonage wanted to be acquired rather than go through the… Read More »
Mike and the gang, figure out how in a Sk(h)ype world, a million is really a billion. Read More »
Wall Street Journal catches on to the trend that voice is being embedded in everything – from video games to instant messenger. This is only the start. Our friend Andy pretty much announced his engagement in the pages of WSJ. Read More »
Finally, Global IP Sound has issued a press release confirming that Google Talk is using its codec. Read More »
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