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...
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/cn/20010430/tc/cisco_talks_up_net_phone_techn ology_1.html Monday April 30 10:00 PM EDT Cisco talks up Net phone technology By Wylie Wong CNET News.com Cisco Systems on Monday jazzed up its Internet-based phone technology with new Web...
Wine.com is finally toast. For those of you who’ve used the service, it takes a pathetically long time to get your order because it’s actually shipped from old-school wine distributors to your local wine merchant, who then ships the product to you. In this...
Interesting that Dennis Tito actually used to work for NASA before becoming a rich bastard and exploiting the Russian Space Agency. That said, if I was worth $200 million I might be tempted to throw down 10% of it to hang out on a space station listening to my Opera...
WOW! A slew of Class Action lawsuits is now being hurled at Cisco.. -Ian. ——— http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB987811491680455021.html April 20, 2001 Holder Suit Alleges Cisco Violated Securities Laws By Dan Goodin Staff Reporter of The Wall Street...
Apparently one of his last conversations was with U2’s Bono. How Banal. -Ian. http://www.sonicnet.com/news/archive/story.jhtml?id42818 [ Sun., April 15, 2001 5:50 PM EDT ] Punk Pioneer Joey Ramone Dead At 49 Lead singer of Ramones had lymphatic cancer. Joey...
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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