Om Malik of GigaOM, among others, are reporting today that Cisco has finally announced their $330 million acquisition of WiMAX vendor Navini Networks. Navini will join fellow acquirees (?) Linksys, Sipura Technology, and a few others in the growing Wireless Networking Business Unit.
This is an interesting buy for Cisco, because WiMAX isn’t in widespread use here [...]
Cisco to the WiMAX
Comcastic?!? Not So Much…
The blogosphere continues to boil over last week’s findings by The Associated Press that Comcast is actively blocking traffic for BitTorrent, Gnutella, and even LotusNotes (what?). I could understand, but not necessarily approve, the logic if the activity was limited to legally copyrighted material, but the Bible? Come on. The evidence is looking pretty damning at this [...]
SF Tech Rocks Out… Mostly
Last night, I headed to the October installment of SF Tech Rocks Out, at Fat City. As most people know, the traditional music industry is in major turmoil due to the disruption of digital media. Depending on who you talk to, that’s a good and a not-so-good thing. So, the event showcased five new and not-so-new companies that are making multimedia [...]
Starting Out…
After leaving the great folks at Eastwick Communications, and after taking a very, long week off, I’m happy to say that today is my first day at The Conversation Group. It’s great to be back in action, and to be working with the TCG team. I will be working with some really great clients in the telecom space, [...]
