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FW: Sell Me a Class 5 VoIP Switch

—— Forwarded Message From: Ian Andrew Bell Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:30:17 -0700 To: PULVER-RPT [at] LISTSERV.PULVER [dot] COM Subject: Sell Me a Class 5 VoIP Switch Back in 1997, while I was working at Canada’s 2nd Largest local phone company (now...

FW: Buy beer AND beer stocks

—— Forwarded Message From: Shiuman Ho Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 15:50:48 -0700 To: hello [at] ianbell [dot] com Subject: Buy beer AND beer stocks http://ca.news.yahoo.com/020502/5/m62f.html It would appear that if I had bought Molson (the beer and the stock)...

FW: AT&T Canada cuts 1,000 jobs…

AT&T Canada is stuck between a rock and a hard place. In 1999, with the creation of BT and AT&T’s now failed Concert venture, BT invested 50/50 with AT&T in Rogers Cantel, which brought the AT&T Wireless brand to Canada. BT also bought 10% of...

Kissinger’s Travel Itinerary is Getting Dodgy..

It’s getting harder and harder for Henry Kissinger to make travel plans these days… Here’s the smoking gun on Kissinger’s “green light” for Suharto’s invasion of East Timor: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB62/...

Broadcasters Miss FCC Digital Deadline..

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncidR8&e=5&cidR8&u=/ap/20020 501/ap_on_hi_te/digital_tv_12 Broadcasters Miss Digital Deadline Wed May 1, 6:12 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) – A U.S. senator Wednesday criticized television broadcasters for...

The Rise And Fall of Bernie Ebbers

—— Forwarded Message From: Jeff Pulver Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 15:33:25 -0400 (EDT) To: Ian Andrew Bell Subject: Being that this was a Canada paper, I thought you might enjoy this… Hey Ian, Sometimes they print the stuff you just don’t expect...

IdeaLab Will Have Its Day In Court..

Idealab needs to hire Johnny Cochrane for their civil defense: “If the startup fails, Bill Gross must prevail!” “If the stock don’t split, you must acquit!” Er… That’s bad stuff, right there. Late in the day. YES… I...

Oh, IF ONLY…

…the Microsoft Trial had gone the other way… http://www.mugshots.org/misc/bill-gates.html -Ian.

Canada – USA Relations

Is it me, or are relations between the people and the governments of both Canada and the USA worsening? I have several pieces of circumstantial evidence: – the Booing of the Canadian anthem at New York Islanders and Detriot Red Wings home games last week –...

Ebbers Gracefully Ousted from WorldCom

I don’t know about you guys, but I might be inclined to take it a little bit personally if my resignation as the CEO of WorldCom caused the entire telecommunications industry to spike. -Ian.