New Fundings:
- End2End, a provider of managed hosting services for applications to European wireless network operators, completed a EUR 10.5 million fourth round of financing. Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures led the round; DB Capital Venture Partners and Hewlett-Packard also contributed.
- Telco Exchange, a provider of software and services to large and medium-sized businesses to manage their telecom operations, completed a $5 million first round of financing. The round included investment from Valhalla Partners and Columbia Capital.
Liquidity:
- SkyGo, a provider of technology that enables instant interactive response to any traditional media ad on any wireless handset, was acquired by London-based Enpocket. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. SkyGo's prior investors included Ironweed Capital, Vanguard Ventures, and individuals. Enpocket is also venture backed and its investors include GrandBanks Capital and Nokia Venture Partners.
Main Dish:
- The Future of Money conference
http://www.isen.com/blog/archives/2003_10_01_archive.html#106735842921675721
- more notes from the Money conference
http://craphound.com/fom2003-decentralizedeconomicsystems.txt
- why bad things happen to good strategies... a collection of essays about business strategy
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/se.asp?seid=15
- I think I might have already posted this, but a Wifi gridlock is predicted. I don't know, this sounds like another version of the "we're going to run out of IP addresses soon" which of course was a variant on the "we're going to run out of telephone numbers soon"
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031024S0011
- a pointless study about varying degrees of "politeness" among Americans when it comes to their cell phones. I wonder which part of the country is more likely to throw their cell phone out the car window because they can't get a @$$@%# good signal on i280 for that board call they had to take, or did Cingular not include that question?
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/10000.shtml
- Carly Fiorina pumps up HP's Adaptive Enterprise marketing, nobody knows what the hell she's talking about... news at 11. "Adaptive enterprise is the state in which fundamental technologies in the enterprise enable anything that business wants to do," Fiorina says... I think she should have run for Governor.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-5098241.html?tag=nefd_top
- Novell tried to buy SuSe, accoding to LinuxWorld.
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35554.htm
- Now SCO is saying the entire GPL is unconstitutional... I guess they are saying that giving something away is un-American. I have also heard them argue that you can't license something for nothing...
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031027193958740
- Nokia came out with a raft of Symbian phones, the 7700 is kind of weird.
http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?id=718
- Ubiquity Breeds Utility, an interesting looks at wireless by the Ventureblog guys. This reminds me of one of the truisms of the technology culture in that developers will find a way to fill bandwidth if they have the bandwidth. Remember back in the day when Intel was coming out with new and faster processors (this is going back to the i386 days) and "the experts" would chime in about how unneccessary all that power, and memory, was because people were just recalculating spreadsheets and such. The same arguments came with 10mb Ethernet, then 100mb, and lately gigabit Ethernet. What these critics miss is that in technology the applications backfill into the latest advances in the technology. Same with wireless technologies, many of the apps that will become mainstream will be developed in response to what wireless technology brings to the table. This is different than many industries where the "bandwidth" is developed in response to some advance in the end-user application.
http://www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2003/000203.html
- This research paper suggests that the illegal copying and distribution of movies originates with industry insiders... perhaps the MPAA will hire the RIAA lawyers and start suing the Academy Awards voters?
http://intel.si.umich.edu/tprc/papers/2003/185/MovieSecVulnerable3.pdf
- VC investment tapers off in recent reporting period... not from my vantage point.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27871-2003Oct28.html
- electronic leashes for youngsters... weird.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7116015.htm
- the disposable DVD that Disney came out with last year has been a bomb... just like their other attempts to control the technology behind the content. Don't they get it that I'm not going to pay $7 for a DVD that expires when I can get all the DVD's I want from NetFlix for just over twice that amount?
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,60983,00.html
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