Wednesday June 6, 1:03 am Eastern Time Netscape: We’re in media, not browser business now By Reshma Kapadia NEW YORK, June 6 (Reuters) – AOL Time Warner Inc (NYSE:AOL – news) is remaking its pioneering Netscape software business into an Internet...
Bet you hadn’t thought of this.. Petroleum companies are leveraging their billing relationship with customers (via gas cards, etc.) to become banking and credit institutions on a much grander scale. And they are actually pioneering electronic currency with...
Saw this on another mailing list. It’s really cool! (Imagine if it was big enough to store your OS install — talk about emergency recovery options…). IBM rules. ——— http://www.diskonkey.com/ The DiskOnKey utilizes a standard...
Interesting tack. Why fight the technology and copyright battle when you can just kick their ass on a trademark infringement. Far more expedient. -Ian.
On 5/23/01 8:12 PM, “Ian Andrew Bell” wrote: > There is indeed a serious glut of bandwidth on the horizon and not too many > avenues of escape. Among the many missed hurdles is the fact that consumer > broadband growth is way behind projections....
All of the IXCs, especially fibre carriers, are being hit especially hard now that the perception of business data’s growth has slowed.. Now Level3 is facing difficult questions about whether or not they’ve actually built something that people need. While...
Buried in this otherwise boring (why was I reading it?) press release is a funny quote: “TELUS has now established a strong and liquid financial base from which to continue executing our national growth strategy in the areas of data, IP and wireless”...
BT tried to sustain too many new ventures at the same time, and they overpaid for 3G. They also built some of these ventures to comply with the rules of the old new economy (ie. Dot coms) and their corporate makeover blew up in their faces. Now it’s going to...
Months from now this will be an embarrassment to carriers. Listening to some text-to-speech engine mangle one’s email is not going to be a really effective tool to drive consumption. It’s a gimmick. -Ian.
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.
