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Archive for May, 2008

I have been writing about the coming increase in demand for Wi-Fi access from people walking around with iPhones, iPods, gaming devices and Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones. However, how many cities are gearing themselves up for this, especially for tourists and visiting business people?
I wrote a post on Muniwireless about what cities can do to [...]

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Paul Bragiel, founder of Meetro, has just posted one of the best post-mortems I have read in a long time, explaining in great detail why Meetro, his location-aware instant messaging application, failed. Read about it here:
Anatomy Of A Failure: Lessons Learned
Very few entrepreneurs ever post anything like this. Many are embarrassed about their “failure” and [...]

The conventional wisdom is that Apple has only about 5 percent of the market for personal computers. It appears that if you break down that market two segments, the sub-$1000 and the $1000-plus, that Apple has a massive 66 percent of the market for expensive computers. That means people who have enough money spend, go [...]

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16 May, 2008

I’m a dinosaur: I still love print

Posted by: Esme Vos In: Business models

I will admit that I love the printed word. I buy books, love glossy magazines with beautiful photos, especially love books and mags with gorgeous paper. Although I am a gadget freak and cannot live with the Internet, I still love print. So I think I will subscribe to this new quarterly magazine called Dispatches [...]

Andy Abramson reviews the IP communications landscape and surveys the Skype killer rumors, WiMAX and cable companies’ foray into wireless. He says (in part):
So here’s the way I see it. For the most part, the cable guys in the WiMax venture have the most to win because with the mobile WiMax play it gets them [...]


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This is the tech blog of Esme Vos, founder of Muniwireless, the resource for WiMAX and muni wireless networks, Mapplr, the travel site for finding the best boutique hotels, restaurants and cafes worldwide and Shopplr, the coolest shopping site on earth.


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