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Over past few weeks, many new location based services (LBS) that leverage the WiFi networks have come to the forefront, and many of them have exciting enough offerings to give mobile phone networks-based LBS a run for their money - not that it would take much!
With WiFi becoming common place, and the upcoming entrance [...]

Nick Wilson, one of the co-founders of Performancing tells me that they are all set to launch an ad-network focussed solely on blogs. (Beta sign-ups here.) The network is called Performancing Partners. All the information is on their blog. Performancing makes a firefox plugin for bloggers and also have recently started offering Performancing Metrics, a [...]

I am often amazed at folks who buy fancy scream machines such as Ferrari and continue to live in cities such as London, or Bombay where driving at over 25 miles an hour is a challenge. I can understand the desire to own something that sleek, expensive and fast. But you certainly almost never get [...]

Despite a sense of optimism that is currently running through Silicon Valley and other tech centers around the country, the technology IPO market remains luke warm. We all remember the Vonage IPO, and then yesterday more bad news. Web analytics firm, Omniture went public, and opened at $6.05, skidded to $5.60 before inching back to [...]

Ross Levinsohn’s wheeling and dealing to get News Corp. back in the Web game has been ridiculed by many as profligate and late. But he may yet prove them all wrong. … this is my latest article for Business 2.0, which is now available online. A lot of people had some wonderful comments and insights [...]

BellSouth will launch its fixed wireless broadband service in five new cities in the third quarter of 2006. The service will be available in some select parts of Melbourne, Fla.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Greenville, Miss.; Charleston, S.C.; and Albany, Ga. The service will have a downstream speeds of up to 1.5Mbps. The system transmits signals between [...]