Well my friend Mark Williamson of Willi’s Wine Bar has an interest in Evening Land, which has Dominque Lafon and Sashi Moorman as winemakers. The 2008 Beaujolais Village is a stunning, but easy drinking red, that is full of cherries and raspberries. Low enough in alcohol that you can enjoy two glasses, or just sit … Read more
In what looks to be an asset sale based on the published reports, Agito Networks, an early pioneer in the concept of the mobile PBX, has been sold to ShoreTel for $11.4 million dollars and likely there’s a patent or two there that may bring them some value, plus market understanding of how to put … Read more
Laptop Magazine highlights the results of a telework study that Microsoft conducted this year (2010) and revels a lot of what I have been doing with my team, and saying, for the past eight years. 1. We get more productivity out of people. 2. The concept is more green. 3. The tools out there are … Read more
Back on October 4th I reported how I was seeing 4G service on my Sprint Overdrive in Los Angeles. Well it seems I was correct and that the uber-fast wireless service is indeed coming to the City of Angels soon.
If you were wondering why Apple’s stock jumped over $300.00 a share yesterday, all you need to do is see these two announcements: AT&T Verizon With these two moves Apple has added over 4,000 new retail locations. If each location sells 10 units a day, that’s 1,200,000 units a month. But it’s more telling. It … Read more
With 80 million users, a direct interconnect to Microsoft’s Messenger and the world going mobile Yahoo has taken a stab at making that very large community more connected with the launch of their new Mobile App for the iPhone and iPod touch. And is it ever sweet. Right now I’m using my Yahoo DID for … Read more
iSkoot, the company that powered Skype on the Skype Mobile phones originally, and which morphed more into a social networking player in mobile was acquired by Qualcomm today. Reports are that the sale was in the $60 to 65 million dollar range for all the remaining assets of the company. If that’s correct, the investors … Read more
The New York Times has brought to light a new FCC initiative to help cell phone users know more about their cell phone charges so what is called “bill shock” is avoided. This is a real world problem, promulgated by carriers technical issues, with technical solutions to the problem. Basically, all it means is that … Read more
I remember seeing MODU Mobile back in February at the annual GSMA’s Mobile World Congress. Back then they were drawing attention to their uber-lightweight mobile devices. To me the diminutive devices were about serving a market segments wants and needs. Ah. The essence of what Jagger and Richards sang in “Satisfaction.” Well it seems those … Read more
I’m all for believing what is in a press release, unless it comes out on April Fools Day, but when two giants in their respective sectors, telecom and hotels, allow a joint press release to be put out, usually that means reality, not fantasy. You see, if I want to read fantasy, I can get … Read more
