Vonage getting close to settling with AT&T - Vonage is close to settling the latest patent infringement lawsuit with AT&T. The lawsuit was over a technology called “packet telephone system”, which allows VOIP to work. It looks like Vonage is making every effort to settle this and move on, stating in a news release that ?if negotiations of a definitive settlement agreement fail, [...]
Dell Acquires EqualLogic For $1.4 Billion - Dell has acquired data storage solutions provider EqualLogic for $1.4 billion. New Hampshire based EqualLogic makes internet focused data-storage network systems that use proprietary software “designed to simplify how businesses store and manage data.” EqualLogic offers virtualization solutions and is a minor partner in VMWare. Dell said that they would use the acquisition to increase their market [...]. .
Verizon Stops Challenge Against Open 700MHz Spectrum - Good news for Google, which is leading the fight for openness in the 700MHz spectrum being auctioned off soon, since Verizon, leading the fight for evil, has decided to back down. Verizon, pretty much the poster boy for closed networks (half the time AT&T looks like Linux next to Verizon), was fighting to have [...].
MYSQL IPO Chatter Picking Up Again - One of the most-anticipated tech IPOs of the year has been that of open-source database company MySQL. It seemed like they were ready to go public back in the beginning of the year. Now I am hearing chatter from hedge fund circles that the filing may be imminent
Behind the scenes at Apple Retail - Alex Frankel, a reporter for Fast Company magazine, recently undertook a two-year undercover project to investigate the ways companies train their retail staffs. Among his targets was Apple, and he has concluded that "Apple Stores, with their aura of cool, were in fact living up to their mission to 'reinvent retail' and setting a high bar for other companies in the retail world."