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MuniWireless has the lowdown on Earthlink winning the Philadelphia wifi bid. This is good news for the company that has been sorely in need of some.

Had it not been for Sprint’s decision to sign-up with Qualcomm when it was getting started on Sprint PCS, Qualcomm would not be the behemoth that it is today. Think of it as a decision that rivals IBM’s decision to go with Intel processors instead of Motorola silicon and using Microsoft’s DOS on its PCs. [...]

The city of Philadelphia is on the verge of deciding who get to build and run its WiFi project. While, Google WiFi has occupied the headlines today, I am watching this one closely. It could become the harbinger of things to come, and how cities decide to move forward when considering WiFi plans. I think [...]

The Internets are buzzing about this free email service 30Gigs.com, that plans to give people 30 gigabytes of email storage, aka 15 times what Google offers with its Gmail service. The new service shows how commoditized the hardware, especially storage has become. Still, as may grandfather used to say, nothing in life is free. Not [...]

Check out gFeedMap. It displays the location of blogs, along with a brief description of them, on a Google map. Pretty nice, but slow and needs to work on getting more blogs.

Dave Taylor, is considering switching to VoIP, but is confused by the plethora of devices, complex implementations and what not. He needs some help. Andy and Aswath, you guys have suggestions? Dave, I think what you need is an hosted phone service (that has companion softphone) for small business. I suggest M5 Networks and Fonality [...]