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Om breaks a story about the death of XOHM, the rebirth of Clearwire and a lot of interesting partners.

This story by Om is rather interesting on the possibility of a global telco led initiative to compete with Skype. My take is that it would have a better chance of succeeding if the cable companies were involved, and not on the sidelines. Here in the USA they control more of the access than the … Read more

Back on November 11, 2007 I called the possible merger/acquisition of Sprint by T-Mobile back when Rich Tehrani was postulating that Google as the possible. Now the blogosphere and media is abuzz that it may happen. Regulators aside, I have it on good authority, and did back then, that the two sides had begun having … Read more

The other day Jonathan Greene posted about the lousy performance when it came to Broadband that he had at the Hotel Monaco in Seattle. The Monaco, like the Palomar here in San Francisco where I am for the week are both Kimpton Hotels and have a long tradition of catering to technology types on the … Read more

With this post from Carl Ford, the long time VON Conference leader and evangelist, I think it is fait acompli that VON is not happening. Here are some other indicators: 1) There isn’t anyone left to run things. Jason, Jeff and Scott have reportedly through the whisper mill moved on. 2) Companies that were getting … Read more

This would be interesting if it’s true. Apple using WiMax. But what continues to be the untold story is how Apple keeps lining up with other chip makers separate from Intel.

When I first read this post from Stowe Boyd I remembered back to when Apple had a division for software called Claris and thought…hmmm.. Well now that Microsoft has told the crew leading Yahoo that “we know what you are, and all that we’re dealing with is the price” in so many words, the Valley … Read more

Check this out. This may be the best darn deal on wireless data anywhere.

I’m on my way to the Bay Area for a week’s worth of meetings, meet up and to also assist winemaker friend Sylvain Fadat of Domaine d’Aupilhac on Monday at the annual Kermit Lynch Client event that starts tonight. As I await my slightly delayed Southwest flight to SFO I ran a fast speed test. … Read more

I was picking some friends up at San Diego International Airport this past Thursday and took my Mac Book Air along as I knew they might be delayed. Having experienced their anemic speeds before in the East Terminal where SouthWest flies, and in the West Terminal when flying US Air and Jet Blue, I was … Read more