You can all Xohm now — and call it Clearwire. The much talked about WiMAX joint venture between Clearwire and Sprint Nextel is going to happen and the news is going to come as soon as tomorrow. The combined company is going to be worth $12 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. Here are some [...]
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X-Novell CEO Buys Provo’s MuniFiber Network
, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 1:57 PM PT Comments (2)
Please don’t tell me that municipal fiber networks are destined to meet the same fate as MuniFi networks. Today there is news that Broadwave Networks, a company co-founded by former Novell CEO, Robert Frankenberg, is buying the much-vaunted iProvo fiber network from the city of Provo, Utah, for $40.6 million. Broadwave is in the business [...]
Global Telcos Plotting a Skype Rival?
, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 8:12 AM PT Comments (39)
AT&T, in conjunction with some 10-15 incumbent telecom carriers, is plotting to launch a Skype competitor, according to a research report issued this morning by ThinkEquity analyst Anton Wahlman. He argues that big shifts in the telecom landscape are forcing the carriers to think along these lines: Voice has become a losing proposition, and they’re losing fixed-line customers at an alarming rate. Continue Reading
Verizon to Power Qwest Wireless
, Monday, May 5, 2008 at 6:30 PM PT Comments (3)
In what looks like yet another blow to Sprint, Qwest said today it will resell/re-offer Verizon Wireless’ services to its customers in a four-play package. Residential customers will be able to choose wireless only and be billed directly by Verizon Wireless, or include Verizon Wireless service as part of a Qwest bundle with their home [...]
Mosso Launches CloudFS Storage Service
, Monday, May 5, 2008 at 6:00 PM PT Comments (6)
Mosso, an on demand hosting start-up is embracing Cloud Computing with open arms, and today launched the beta of CloudFS, a new web-based storage offering that will compete with Amazon’s S3. Mosso plans to charge $0.15 per gigabyte, and will remain in beta till end of third quarter.
Finally, T-Mobile Launches a U.S. 3G Network
, Monday, May 5, 2008 at 9:00 AM PT Comments (9)
T-Mobile USA, the company known for its ultra-affordable voice plans, is launching its 3G Network in New York City, ushering in what we hope will be competition in the market leading to the lowering of 3G data costs for mobile phone users.
For now, the new UMTS/HSDPA network is available only in New York, but there [...]
Yahoo is Friendless On Wall Street
, Monday, May 5, 2008 at 8:54 AM PT Comments (17)
Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s CEO, this morning posted what can be described as an emotional blog post about the Microsoft-Yahoo buyout saga. He reinforces the points he has made all along: that Yahoo needs to execute, innovate and develop more focus. Good intentions, but apparently not many are buying it. You should read the comments in [...]
Amazon Now Serving OpenSolaris on EC2
, Monday, May 5, 2008 at 6:42 AM PT Comments (7)
During our on-stage chat at Startup Camp, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted at some big news involving Amazon and its web services. Today, the company officially announced:
Sun’s OpenSolaris OS will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers for free. It is in beta for now.
Sun will provide premium technical support [...]
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