Sprint’s XOHM mobile broadband service, based on WiMAX technology, is now live and operational in Baltimore. According to Sprint, the 4G network will offer high-speed mobile Internet browsing, social-networking tools, location-centric services and multimedia including music, video and on-demand at download speeds of 2-4 Mbps. This is faster than data rates available on Sprint’s EVDO [...]

Wachovia is the next big bank to fall and it’s banking assets have been acquired by Citi. Under the terms of the agreement, Citi will pay Wachovia approximately $2.16 billion in stock and assume Wachovia’s senior and subordinated debt, totaling approximately $53 billion. This will create a U.S. retail bank with 9.8% U.S. market deposit [...]

The first Presidential Debate is on Friday and we still have a lot of confusion on McCain taking part in the debate. After all, he has “suspended” his campaign, and has rushed to the Washington DC, to “help” with the bailout deal.
Assuming he does make it to the debate, I would like him to answer [...]

The news of the day is Senate Banking Committee questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson over their $700b bailout plan for the Finaincial firms on Wall Street. Political events revolve around that news.

Sarah Palin has not been available to the Press, has given only two interviews (compared to Joe Biden’s [...]

Samsung and Armani have launched the latest luxury mobile phone, the NIGHT LIFE. The two companies are working together as part of an alliance for creating designer portable and home consumer electronics. The goal: consumer devices with the aesthetic appeal of Giorgio Armani and the sophistication of Samsung technology.
The illuminating LED’s around the edge are [...]

The day begins with both Barack Obama and John McCain announcing new television ads to be used nationwide. Barack Obama’s ad “Article” links John McCain’s plans for health care to current financial crisis -

“We’ve seen what Bush-McCain policies have done to our economy,” goes the script. “Now John McCain wants to do the same to [...]

Google is one of the most popular web destination among internet users. The company continues to grow it’s online search market share and currently holds top spot. According to comScore’s August search engine rankings, Google increased it market share by 1.1% at the expense of Yahoo and Microsoft, which were down by 0.9 and 0.6 [...]

The Bush administration is trying to fix the recent financial meltdown by proposing a mammoth treasury bailout of unprecedented magnitude - $700 billion to buy bad assets using tax payer dollars.

The proposal has been submitted by the White house to lawmakers today, in a desperate attempt to address sliding investor confidence on the stability of [...]

The fed is working on, what amounts to the biggest bail out for banks in over a decade. With AIG, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Washington Mutual all falling prey to their own practices and a panic stricken economy, the fed and treasury have come together with separate measures to help struggling banks.
The Treasury [...]

Google maps now offers street view on java powered and Blackberry mobile devices. Street View can be launched from any address and if Google has photos in their database from that location, maps will display the street view for the address. Street View can be overlaid on the map or in full screen and also [...]

As HP integrates it’s acquisition of EDS, the company has announced restructuring of it’s combined workforce. HP will shed approximately 7.5 percent! of it’s employees or about 24600 heads. About half of the reductions will occur in the United States. HP says it will provide employees affected by this restructuring program with severance packages, counseling [...]

Intel has announced it’s 6 core Xeon high performance processors based on it’s 45 nm process technology. The Intel® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series, code-named Dunnington, will support up to 6 cores with 16 MB of shared cache memory. The processors come in frequencies up to 2.66 GHz and power consumption as low as 50 watts. [...]

Best Buy, the consumer technology retailer, has purchased Napster, a pioneer in digital music entertainment. Napster agreed to be acquired at $2.65 per share in cash for a purchase price of approximately $121 million.
This is good for Napster but where does it fit in within Best Buy?  Maybe Best Buy can offer Napster music solutions [...]

O3b Networks Ltd. has secured the backing of Google for it’s broadband satellite network. O3b Networks is building a new telecommunications infrastructure offering low-latency links from 1 Mbps to 10 Gbps for core trunking and 3G Cellular backhaul.
In telecommunications, backhaul refers to transporting traffic between distributed sites (typically access points like homes, schools, internet cafe’s [...]

Zetta, a provider of cloud storage solutions for enterprises, today announced that it has closed a $10.68 million Series A financing round led by venture capital firms Sigma Partners and Foundation Capital. Zetta plans [...]

Yahoo is changing it’s strategy in an attempt to woo users to it’s online properties. The Associated Press is reporting that the Sunnyvale-based company has been looking at allowing more content from other Web sites.
Yahoo plans to open up more with the first major redesign of its home page since May os 2006. The changes [...]

Ok, so the 2nd ad ( 1st ad review ) in the Microsoft and Seinfeld ad series is now out and we get the first message at the end of part 2. Microsoft has connected a billion people and that PC is Perpetually Connecting ( PC get it?). Hmm. Granted I loved seeing Mr Microsoft [...]

Sun Microsystems today released it’s xVM portfolio offering just in time for VMworld 2008 to be held in Las Vegas from September 15th - 18th.
The xVM portfolio includes xVM Ops center, xVM server, xVM Virtual Box and xVM VDI, a comprehensive software offering for server, desktop virtualization and remote management of virtualized infrastructure.

xVM Ops Center [...]