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Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners and Huawei plan to buy out 3Com’s stake in company’s joint venture with Huawei called Huawei-3Com Co. reports Bloomberg. The three year old joint venture accounts for nearly 51% of 3Com sales.

As social media explodes, the choices for the consumer are increasing exponentially. Our time constrained modern lives cannot consume all the content that is available to consume, and perhaps that is why we should consider hyper aggregation as an option. Some pico-start-ups like Original Signal, Spokeo, and Viral Videos are showing us the way.

Russia will have close to 7000 hotspots by end of 2006, of which nearly 6,000 are owned and operated by Golden Telecom, according to a study by J’son & Partners. There will be 13,000 hotspots in Russia by 2010, the study predicts. via

The much-discussed YouTube, Verizon deal has been confirmed, according to several reports, and Verizon will offer select YouTube content over VCast. The deal is supposedly exclusive for a limited period of time and will be available next month. People watch YouTube online because you can easily find an endless amount of content for free — [...]

Andrew Schmitt tells a hilarious story about his FiOS connection, which suffered at the teeth of an overeager squirrel. Andrew points out that Verizon engineers (two) spent nearly 12 hours trying to fix the problem when his service went down. After working overnight they found the problem.
Turns out the fiber had chew marks on it, [...]

With hordes of pitches for online shopping tools pouring into the GigaOM mailboxes, I thought I’d take the opportunity today to hit the virtual mall today. Payment tools, shopping comparison, speedy delivery — whatever came my way, I was going to try it. And no, there was no Monopoly money or corporate expense account involved.
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