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eYak..

OK, I give up… Just what the hell are these guys doing and how are they able to raise so much cash? When I met them last summer they told me they were almost exclusively devoted to building a conference-calling service. Puzzled…...

Banner Ad’s Last Gasp

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010507/tc/net_ads_test_new_bells-and-whist les_1.html Monday May 07 05:00 PM EDT Net ads test new bells-and-whistles By Stefanie Olsen CNET News.com Last week, Yahoo proved Web ads can do more–perhaps even too much.   Visitors...

Quoted in Article: “Cisco’s Slump…”

Charles neglected to add some of the GOOD stuff I had to say about Cisco. 🙂 -Ian. ——- http://www.latimes.com/business/20010506/t000038149.html Cisco’s Slump Kills Off Some High-Tech Myths Technology: Unfinished buildings and a sagging stock price are...

Tom Cruise is NOT Gay

This has got to be the most persistent rumour in Hollywood. Maybe it’s because we believe he’d have to be gay to break up with Nicole Kidman. Maybe it’s cause taking him out of heterosexual circles makes all the rest of us guys look like champs....

An “American Patriot” is Actually a Canadian..

To further confirm that Americans fervently believe that all white people are born in the U.S., NASA chief Dan Goldin praises Canadian James Cameron as “an American Patriot” before a congressional inquiry. I saw “Titanic”. They can have...

FW: BT Selling Off Wireless?

—— Forwarded Message From: Ray Le Maistre Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:13:37 +0100 To: ‘Ian Andrew Bell’ Subject: RE: BT Selling Off Wireless? But imagine what would have happened to BT if it had not won a 3G license in its own back yard….its...

The Free Ride is OVER, Baby

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/technology/01FREE.html May 1, 2001 Free Rides Now Passé on Information Highway By SAUL HANSELL There never was such a thing as a free lunch over the Internet. But for a while a determined freeloader could find a Web site that would...

BT Selling Off Wireless?

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 —...

De-Lousing the Telephone Network.

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...