How the mighty have fallen! Is it me, or does the whole 360 Networks thing smell a lot like LEDCOR making a lot of money from a subsidiary’s IPO and generating a lot of construction business worldwide? I’d be interested to know how many of 360’s...
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news/ap/20010626/ap-avalanche-bourque.html Bourque retires after 22 years in NHL, Stanley Cup win By JOHN MOSSMAN AP Sports Writer June 26, 2001 DENVER (AP) — For 22 seasons, Ray Bourque performed like few others on the ice. On...
As your humble listmaster predicted, it was only a matter of waiting until dot com euphoria subsided before the big boys would move into the market. They just waited out the tide as the valuations of these grocers dwindled to nothing and swooped in to take HUGE chunks...
Well, they call Jonathan Fram, the dink that left Net2Phone (which is like a Post-Doctorate school for assholes) to “fix” eVoice, the “Framinator”. Looks like he done fixed it alright.. Purchase price by AOL: $23 Million minus liabilities...
iBeam really took it in the nuts to get their money in this round, but at least they’ll survive another year at their current loss rate. I’d hate to have employee shares in this company. -Ian.
AOL is now moving into the mobile information / telematics space in a hurry. Watch out, OnStar, “0 0 Info”, and others. The thing about InfoUSA’s databases is that by my experience they aren’t very up-to-date for things like Residential phone...
Scott Banister, who was when I met him a 25-year-old Prodigy at Idealab! who sat on the eVoice board, must be proud that he bailed out when his fucked company was bought by Microsoft during the heyday of dot communism. Anwyay, they shut it down. Listbot was actually...
—— Forwarded Message From: Tim Hardy Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:11:22 -0700 To: Ian Andrew Bell Subject: TFS Technology Fatigue Syndrome Strikes Computer Users By John Dvorak, Computer Shopper Are endless technological innovations wearing you out? You may...
Monday 18 June 2001 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac1851641145319&rtmo=lzFklAlt&atmo=rrrrrrrq &pg=/et/01/6/18/wfung18.html  Scientist finds fungus that eats through compact discs By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent  FIRST there was the...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
