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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 of McCaw Cellular, one of the early start-ups that grew to become [...]

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 magazine. By end of the weekend, I hope to [...]

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 be on vacation!

+ 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 IPO process.
+ Jeff Pulver: Five years ago, during the summer [...]

Mike and the gang, figure out how in a Sk(h)ype world, a million is really a billion.

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.