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Every now and then I come across something fun and innovative, and have to write about it. There’s a school bus service called The Green Bus in Birmingham, UK which operates double-decker, low-carbon emissions buses that carry over 1400 kids to school every day (saving over 2000 car journeys). The Green Bus is now providing [...]
Nortel, the Canadian telecom equipment vendor, has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code. Nortel’s shares had been trading under $1 on the NY Stock Exchange for several weeks. The NYSE threatened to delist it. Worse, it’s facing over $100 million in interest payments to bond holders this week. Telecom [...]
Freedom to Connect, the annual event organized by David Isenberg, will be held on March 30-31, 2009 in Washington, DC. I am partnering with David to make this event fun and informative. This year is a very important one because President-elect Barack Obama has made broadband — its cost, quality and availability — a major [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Barack Obama is set to nominate Julius Genachowski, who has served as Obama’s tech advisor, to chair the FCC. Genachowski attended Harvard Law School with Obama and worked as an executive at IAC/InterActive Corp. He is also the founder of LaunchBox Digital, a VC firm. The next FCC chairperson [...]
A study conducted by the UC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society reveals that the surveillance cameras installed around San Francisco have failed to deter violent crime. They have been effective, however, in lowering property crimes within 100 feet of the cameras by 24 percent. But before you conclude that all [...]
Happy New Year! I am sending out the newsletter again as promised. If you have not been to the Muniwireless website in months, you will see that it has been redesigned. The biggest change is the addition of a WiMAX section, whose editor is Paul Kapustka, founder of Sidecut Reports. 2009 is going to be [...]
This belongs to the “you’ve got to be kidding me” news of the day. Nokia announced that it is stopping production of its wildly popular N810 WiMAX Tablet, stating that “[t]he Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition has reached the expected end of its life cycle.” Bizarre for two reasons. First, nomadic / WiMAX networks are finally [...]
We’re going to have lots more — lots more — news and analysis from Tuesday’s official Clearwire launch in Portland, Ore., but before we call it a night we had to break the product news that Clearwire chief strategy officer Scott Richardson forgot to mention during his prepared speech: A portable WiMax/Wi-Fi router for creation [...]
We are attending the Clearwire official launch of WiMax services in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, getting lots of fun stuff, videos and pictures. Good information too. Among the bits of info we will explore more later: Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff said the company will continue to experiment with pricing models in different markets, to find out [...]
WiFi Salon has announced that it is shutting down Wi-Fi service in several parks, including Central Park, because it has not found financing to continue operating the network. WiFI Salon won a contract from the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation in 2004 to wire 10 parks in four boroughs. WiFi Salon founder, Marshall Brown, [...]
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