Time Warner Cable is close to a deal with Sprint Corp. to offer mobile telephone service under the TimeWarner brand to the cabler’s 11 million subscribers, according to a report in Wednesday’s The Wall Street Journal.
If such a deal is struck, Time Warner will be the first cable company to offer the so-called “quadruple threat”
Bill Miller is CEO of Valchemy, a San Mateo, California company founded in 2001 to provide application software to the M&A industry. Previously, he was an executive with Intel Capital, working with the company’s active equity investment and M&A programs.
Sharon Wienbar is a director at BA Venture Partners, the Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund for Bank of America.
Thanks to Sharon Wienbar, a director of BA Venture Partners, the venture capital arm of Bank of America. Familiar with the ‘Day in the Life…’ format, she forwarded eFinancialCareers this spoof email that has been circulating Silicon Valley’s VC community.
Wienbar says the original author is an anonymous CEO of a venture-backed startup firm; the email has been edited
As contract work for Mountain View-based Sage Technologies, I was tasked with designing the new look and feel for a web site of respected San Jose clothier Eli Thomas for Men, a small but successful retailer in the upscale menswear niche. I was only given a business card, 3 low-pixel JPEG snapshots and an email description of
Mobile handset sales have reached a half a billion per year, and the industry players are vying for the biggest slice of the pie
As the final figures trickle in, 2003 is turning out to be a better than expected year for wireless telephone handset manufacturers. Consumers worldwide snapped up about half a billion new cell phones.
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New, “blue” laser technology is magnifying optical storage, and spurring competition. Possible: The Lord of the Rings trilogy on a single disc.
A refined laser technology is giving optical storage an edge in the data space race, and two products – each with big-brand supporters – are vying to dominate the market.
When 4.7 gigabyte DVD-ROM storage technology was released
(The following was written on request for the Spring Newsletter for the Billy DeFrank LGBT Center) By David Speakman Typical of our Silicon Valley life, my recent marriage can be traded to an email. February 11, a note in my inbox said that San Francisco would grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Three days later
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XM and Sirius will continue to duke it out in the burgeoning satellite radio market – if they have enough cash to survive.
For music fans frustrated by the homogenous din of the Clear Channel-controlled universe, satellite radio seems to have it all: crystalline sound; more than 100 channels of music, news, and talk; the artist and song title
It doesn’t have much power and it’s relatively slow. That’s why the 802.15.4 wireless standard will soon be king of machine-to-machine communication.
The promise of wireless technology has always been hobbled by one flaw: wireless devices tend to be awful energy hogs. That’s where ZigBee steps in.
ZigBee is tech speak for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’
