Based on what’s been happening with the California Power Crisis I’m starting to develop the opinion that deregulation and competition don’t actually work very well, when one operator among a group of competitors has to actually build and maintain the...
Based on what’s been happening with the California Power Crisis I’m starting to develop the opinion that deregulation and competition don’t actually work very well, when one operator among a group of competitors has to actually build and maintain the...
Gee, isn’t that crazy? This is what the greed of governments (and short-sightedness of companies) in the recent auctions of 3G licenses is resulting in. It’s breaking carriers because the revenue that absorbs those licensing costs is decades away —...
Before Ncompass was spun out of Excite, I worked for Gerri and with Ncompass co-founders for a year or so. None of us had ever been able to figure out exactly what the tools they were building were until lately. It’s unlikely that the Ncompass folks are all...
For decades the US Military has maniacally pursued the pipe dream that Nuclear Wars must somehow be “winnable”. Why? Because secretly the US Military believes that, if there were an effective defense against retaliatory strikes, nuclear weapons could be...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
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