Thursday, February 13, 2003

For the Smart Dresser, Electric Threads That Cosset You. Designers traditionally choose textiles based on their beauty, strength or cost. Now they can choose them based on their ability to conduct electricity. By Anne Eisenberg. [New York Times: Technology]
4:27:49 PM    comment   

Pocket PC's for Smaller Pocketbooks. Pocket PCs have generally offered more features than Palm devices, but they have also been bigger, heavier and pricier. Not anymore. By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]
4:27:29 PM    comment   

Wi-Fi with a French accent: saving rural areas: Rural dwellers in France are finding that the broadband gap is making them uncompetitive with city folk. The solution is fixed point-to-point wireless (which might not all be Wi-Fi, by the way; there's plenty of 2.4 GHz non-802.11 stuff out there). It's part of the ongoing lesson being taught to telecoms worldwide: your least profitable customers can be profitable to smaller companies with lower regulatory overhead than monopoly players.

[80211b News]
4:27:00 PM    comment   

Today's business environment is similar in ways to the early 1990s when private equity firms rose up to restructure mountains of bad debt and went on to cash out in the ensuing bull market. But while opportunities are out there, it is harder to make deals work than it was a decade ago, according to two leading private equity players who participated in Wharton's annual private equity conference held Jan. 24.
4:21:48 PM    comment   

© Copyright 2005 Omar Javaid .
Last update: 6/27/05; 11:57:37 PM .

Click here to visit the Radio UserLand website. Valid CSS! Subscribe to "Mobilog" in Radio UserLand. Click to see the XML version of this web page. Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.