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...
PhoneFree http://www.phonefree.com has changed their business model and will no longer support PC-to-Phone traffic. Current users have received notice; once the allotted time, that was purchased, has been used up service will be terminated. They had almost 4,000,000...
Okay, PDF rocks. But it kinda sucked for a while because if you made a PDF and threw it up on the web, nobody would really be able to find it unless you wrote a really good description of it in HTML. Old bits, but I read this in the Industry Standard last night on a...
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.
