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The trials and tribulations of the Yahoo executive suite have been well chronicled in the media off late: from the recent exit of their sales ace to Terry Semel being replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang, as the top man on the totem pole. The management shuffle aside, Yahoo has a bigger problem on its hand: [...]

* Sprint, in an attempt to create some buzz for its EVDO has come up with a viral video site, CureCD.com. Its an extended version of their SuperBowl Commercial. The site has some funny videos, but the problem with the site is that you can’t embed it in your blog. Nothing viral about it!
* My [...]

Connected Mode: Multitasking for Productivity: Conventional wisdom from old-style journalists and not a few bloggers says that multitasking is bad. We need to firewall our attention, prevent interruptions, and work on one thing at a time. But what if this conventional wisdom doesn’t always apply in the new world of work that the web [...]

Vonage, the beleaguered VoIP service provider is in court today, trying to defend its position that it doesn’t infringe on Verizon’s patents. If Vonage loses, then things get really tough for the company, which has claimed that it has developed a workaround Verizon patents, and can still stay in business.
If the three Verizon patents - [...]

Big rumor of the day: Google is buying GrandCentral. We checked with GrandCentral and they declined to comment. If it indeed does happen, it would be delicious irony: Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet were with DialPad, which got sold to Yahoo. So this would even the score. GrandCentral has raised about $4 million from Minor [...]

Now we have written about Mobile TV quite extensively, but this quote just sums it up nicely.
“Everybody thinks mobile TV is a great idea, but when it’s time to get out the chequebook everyone starts to look at each other,” Peter MacAvock, executive director of industry body DVB Project.
Thanks to rich old guys who [...]