Arguably, the two companies benefiting the most from the .com ecommerce revolution are FedEx and UPS. These two giants have seen their infrastructure strained and their wallets fattened as the use of the web for buying products has grown. As Amazon well knows, the...
Iridium now toast? C’mon… maybe it’s too early for satellite-based voice, but how about lots of little low bitrate applications like paging? I can think of a thousand uses for a roving satellite signaling network that require very little bandwidth...
http://www.amcity.com/seattle/stories/2000/03/13/story2.html B.C. you later Net entrepreneurs are heading to U.S. Steve Ernst Staff Writer Speeding tickets are no longer a worry for Dimitri Sirota. Until a few months ago, the 29-year-old entrepreneur was driving 300...
Ummm.. what should we critique here first? o Lack of successful penetration of all video conferencing products over the last 25 years. o Lack of any credible plan to deliver sufficient bandwidth to sup- port video to mobile phones. o Lack of sufficiently miniaturized...
Check it out MSIE 5.0 has thoroughly kicked Netscape’s ass! http://www.thestandard.com/research/metrics/display/0,2799,12809,00.html March 13, 2000 The Right Tools For The Job Web site developers face the dilemma of balancing the most appealing online content...
Prediction: This is going to make NetPliance’s IPO huge. It has all of the buzzwords, ie. “Slashdot”, “Linux”, “Sub-$200 PC”, etc. http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener/ A little history: * Some dude figures out how to add a...
http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/poll/technology/index.html Survey Shows Widespread Enthusiasm for High Technology Americans Love Their Computers and the Internet; ‘Digital Divide’ Still Exists, but There Is Good News, Too […] Virtually all...
Word on the street is that Silicon Valley has picked up on Sir Arthur Eddington’s “Infinite Monkey” theorem. I smell .COM! More on the theorem: http://t2r.uwasa.fi/jargon/infinite_monkey_theorem.html RealAudio from Bob Newhart’s Infinite...
More of Adam’s decent analysis of the trends of the market. Everbody! Get to work on your “wireless strategy” press release. Wireless is HOT, for sure. Two Canadian companies, Research in Motion (RIM.TO) and Burnaby’s Sierra Wireless (SW.TO).....
So most of you are aware of my now embarrassing and well-publicized nautical disaster with the PALM IPO. My broker thought we could get in at $60 but we ended up getting in, uh… well.. in the $100 territory. So I’m a little bummed since those shares are...
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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