http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid12&e&u=/nm/ 20020928/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_dc&sid•573503 Consumers See Deals in Internet Calling Sat Sep 28, 3:44 PM ET By Eric Auchard NEW YORK (Reuters) – Telephone calling via the...
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20020930/ RNORT/Headlines/headdex/headdexBusiness_temp/2/2/23/ ‘Ultimate supplier’ Nortel may be out of demand By DAVID AKIN Monday, September 30, 2002 – Print Edition, Page B1 In 1885, just...
Nasty URL below. In a great tribute to the mediocrity currently being propagated by the Music Industry, rock fans are spreading an old garage track recorded by Nirvana just prior to Cobain’s suicide like wildfire over GNUtella. It’s further testimony to...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/28/opinion/28EPST.html Think You Have a Book in You? Think Again By JOSEPH EPSTEIN EVANSTON, Ill. According to a recent survey, 81 percent of Americans feel they have a book in them — and that they should write it. As the author of 14...
Introducing ORIGINS… a new feature on FOIB that is even more trivial than the rest of FOIB. Ever wondered where expressions come from? Ever wonder why people use such funny slang? Ask now, and FOIB (okay, Google) answers:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020926.html Steal This Column Criticism Won’t Change the DMCA, but Breaking the Law Will By Robert X. Cringely After last week’s column about BayTSP and its CEO, Mark Ishikawa, I received hundreds of critical...
http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/27/0927sbc_print.html Telecom The Bells Sing The Blues, On Cue Mark Lewis, 09.27.02, 12:16 PM ET When a firm announces bad news, generally it crafts a news release brimming with positive spin to put the best possible light on the...
I’m going to take some risk here and go on record stating that although I am 100% conviced that there is an “iPhone”, this ain’t it. I’ll even go further to say that the logical partner to build the iPhone is SONY/Ericsson, and not...
A direct quote from Yours Truly in 1994, when I was building the web presence for a company that later became InfoWave Wireless Networks: “This is stupid. Nobody’s going to want to just access their email on mobile devices — people want to surf the...
http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/learnmore/hardware/ prod_specs.asp?p_id Overview With the Pocket PC Phone Edition from T-Mobile you can achieve the next level of productivity. A combined phone and organizer, it includes pocket versions of Microsoft Word and...
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.
