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We’ve written previously about how founders can get into trouble when they aren’t completely honest with their customers or investors. Blogging under an assumed name earned Whole Foods CEO John Mackey some heat from the media and regulators, too. Some of you found Mackey’s disingenuousness unseemly for an executive. Others said that in a blog […]

I was in San Diego this week, and the wildfires there were extraordinary. Hundreds of thousands of people — normal, suburban, it-can’t-happen-to-me people — were displaced, stuck on roadways and desperate for information. The nature of the emergency — multiple fires, moving quickly — meant information was often conflicting.

Traditional media have been hopelessly outdated in […]

Location-based services (LBS) are one of our favorite topics here at GigaOM. We have covered the business extensively, including the recent mega-billion-dollar acquisitions made by Nokia (NOK) and Tom Tom. In other deals, Google (GOOG) bought Jaiku and last week, Platial acquired Frappr. All of this activity indicates that “location” is becoming increasingly important […]

Earth2Tech: Academy Award-winning movie star Tom Hanks is promoting the eBox, a retrofitted electric car — on his MySpace profile page.

WebWorkerDaily: One in 10 U.S. online consumers tag something on the web every month. Five tips on how to integrate tagging into your web business.

NewTeeVee: Wyclef Jean on your phone, mobile Weather Channel and 3G-rich […]

Pair-bonding for faster DSL, 3G wireless, and a beefier backbone using OC-768 (40 gigabits per second) technology are some of the things in the immediate future for AT&T (T), the San Antonio, Texas-based phone company, according to CEO Randall Stephenson, who was in San Francisco last week for the Web 2.0 Summit.

Looking fit as […]

After being skeptical of WiMAX for quite sometime, Cisco Systems (CSCO) is changing its tune, and has decided to play the WiMAX game. It is doing so by buying Navini Networks for a whopping $330 million in cash and stock. It was apparently one of the worst-kept secrets out there; the analyst community had been […]