Investing in the future of the open Internet
$3.2 Billion WiMax Deal Goes Through.
feeds.feedburner.comFound 8 days, 19 hours, 47 minutes, and 27 seconds agoThe deal to combine Sprint Nextel's and Clearwire's fledgling WiMax businesses that was rumored last March is finally expected to go through. Comcast and Intel are supposed to put in $1 billion each; Time Warner, $550 million; Google, $500 million; and regional cable provider Bright House Networks, $100 million. The new company, which will be valued at $12 $14.5 billion, will be run by Clearwire and take its name. As I said before, this is a disaster waiting to happen. Sprint and Clearwire need the deal to try to salvage the billions they've already sunk into their money-losing WiMax networks.
Glass Lewis recommends against Obrem's slate for Micrel
techconfidential.comFound 9 days, 5 hours, 55 minutes, and 17 seconds agoAnalog chipmaker Micrel Inc.'s [MCRL] fight to stave off Obrem Capital Management LLC's board slate got a shot in the arm Tuesday after shareholder advisory service Glass,...
Sprint, ClearWire merging WiMAX operations
feeds.arstechnica.comFound 8 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes, and 49 seconds agoSprint and ClearWire are combining their WiMAX business to form a new joint venture. Sprint will have 51 percent ownership, ClearWire 27 percent, and new investors Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House, Google, and Comcast will own 22 percent. Sprint is a step closer to fulfilling its plans ...
'Clearwire' Rises From The Ashes Of Previous Failed WiMax JV
informationweek.comFound 8 days, 11 hours, 22 minutes, and 7 seconds agoIt's almost poetic. Like a phoenix reincarnated from the ashes of its former self, Sprint and Clearwire have formed a new joint venture to roll out mobile WiMax to the masses. And this time its more than just words. ...
Israeli user interface startup receives $20.4M
techconfidential.comFound 9 days, 12 hours, 52 minutes, and 59 seconds agoOn the cusp of launching its first chipset and software products next month, Israeli user interface technology developer Prime Sense is expected to announce on Tuesday, May 6, that it has closed a $20. ...
Sonic Boomers site targets older music fans
techconfidential.comFound 9 days, 12 hours, 22 minutes, and 22 seconds agoMany startups are trying to take advantage of generational shifts in the music business, typically aiming for younger consumers who would rather download songs than buy records. Bill Bentley, a...
Google Pays for Android Support
eweek.comFound 8 days, 3 hours, 42 minutes, and 26 seconds agoGoogle's $500 million stake in the new Clearwire could give it a major platform for its wireless OS.... See how EASY REMOTE SUPPORT can be. Try WebEx FREE! DELIVER SUPPORT MORE EFFICIENTLY. Remotely Control Applications. ...
Sprint and Clearwire merge next-gen wireless businesses, goes by Clearwire
engadget.comFound 8 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes, and 53 seconds agoFiled under: Wireless Well, what do you know? Sometimes even the most repetitive of rumors finally comes true. Barely 12 hours after the Wall Street Journal reported that a deal between Sprint, Clearwire (and just about everyone) else was dangerously close to going down , it seems as if the ...
WiMax saved: Sprint, Clearwire form joint venture; Google, Intel among backers
blogs.zdnet.comFound 8 days, 5 hours, 53 minutes, and 32 seconds agoSprint and Clearwire have combined their WiMax businesses to form a new venture that will be focused on next generation broadband services. The company will be backed by $3.2 billion from the likes of Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. ...
PrimeSense could add 3D vision to consoles
crunchgear.comFound 9 days, 9 hours, 2 minutes, and 38 seconds agoThe console would understand if you were behind an object and images would move accordingly and you could reach out with your hand to "touch" items on the screen. The technology is real and it works and PrimeSense, a small Israeli company, is trying to release it into the wild. Gaming is a hard industry ...
Sprint and Clearwire to Combine WiMAX Businesses, Creating a New Mobile Broadband Company
newsreleases.sprint.comFound 8 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes, and 28 seconds agoIntel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks to Invest $3. Access details are provided near the end of this news release. The new company, which will be named Clearwire, will be focused on expediting the deployment of the first nationwide mobile WiMAX network to provide a ...
US Mobile Internet access prospects looking up
blogs.nmscommunications.comFound 8 days, 14 hours, 45 minutes, and 3 seconds agoThis is a very good week for the mobile Internet in the US. Our best prospect for open mobile Internet access is not legislation or regulation, but having four or more competing networks that are technically able to offer mobile broadband access. We have three such networks today - Verizon, AT&T and Sprint - but three is not enough to break the walled garden mentality. What's changed? 1. T-Mobile USA has launched their first 3G service using the spectrum they won in the 2006 AWS auctions.
Sprint Wins In WiMax Deal, But Risks Still Loom
informationweek.comFound 8 days, 5 hours, 53 minutes, and 31 seconds agoHow it will actually get built, and benefit the companies involved and mobile users, remains to be seen. Benjamin Wolff, the CEO of Clearwire who will retain that title under the new ownership structure, said the company will reach 120 million to 140 million people by 2010, and 200 million shortly thereafter. ...
Sprint, Clearwire To Create New Mobile Broadband Co.
money.cnn.comFound 8 days, 11 hours, 26 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
Clearwire and Sprint
businessweek.comFound 8 days, 14 hours, 39 minutes, and 21 seconds agoWhen Clearwire forged a partnership with Sprint Nextel last year, the deal was viewed more as a bonus than a must. Sprint Nextel was offering an extra set of hands, with money in them, to help Clearwire accomplish what it had set out to do anyway-build a nationwide high-speed wireless network based on ...
Big Tech Firms to Invest in Wireless
online.wsj.comFound 8 days, 14 hours, 34 minutes, and 15 seconds agoThe race to bring consumers ultrafast wireless Internet service is on. The deal gives the cable operators and Google prominent roles in shaping the future of mobile Internet access and a new outlet as growth begins to slow in their traditional content businesses. The deal is most of all a coup for Sprint ...
Clearwire, Sprint Nextel to form $14.55B wireless company
ap.google.comFound 7 days, 22 hours, 8 minutes, and 9 seconds ago28, 2008 file photo, a woman walks past a Sprint store in Los Angeles. It was announced Wednesday, May 7, 2008 that Sprint Nextel and Clearwire will combine their wireless broadband units to create a $14. The two companies announced Wednesday they will combine their wireless broadband units to create ...
Sprint, Clearwire Announce $14.5 Billion WiMax Deal, Terms
alleyinsider.comFound 8 days, 14 hours, 32 minutes, and 12 seconds agoThe company hopes to build out a network that would reach 120-140 million people by the end of 2010. Sprint's initial WiMax plans, announced almost two years ago, were to reach 100 million people by the end of this year. Sprint will have 51% equity ownership of the new company, Clearwire's existing shareholders ...
Sprint Nextel, Clearwire form WiMax group with Google, others
news.yahoo.comFound 8 days, 53 minutes, and 8 seconds agoIn a major bet on WiMax wireless Internet, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire said Wednesday they would combine their networks in a new company with investment from Google, Intel and others.
iht.com
The new company, to be named Clearwire, will receive a $3.2 billion investment from Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
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paidcontent.org
Over the last year, Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) has made its presence known in the wireless industry, not for its applications, but instead, for its position on open access. The internet giant has been extremely vocal, arguing that wireless networks should be more like the Internet-they should be available ...
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blogs.barrons.com
Sprint (S) and Clearwire (CLWR) this morning made it official, an announced the combination of their two projects to launch a nationwide wireless broadband service using WiMax technology.
The WSJ had most of the terms in their story yesterday, but the details are worth reviewing. ...
Found 8 days, 9 hours, 34 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
marketwatch.com
Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House
Networks to Invest $3. The new company, which will be named Clearwire, will be focused on
expediting the deployment of the first nationwide mobile WiMAX network
to provide a true mobile broadband experience for consumers, small
businesses, ...
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intel.com
Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks to Invest $3. Access details are provided near the end of this news release. The new company, which will be named Clearwire, will be focused on expediting the deployment of the first nationwide mobile WiMAX network to provide a true ...
Found 8 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
webworkerdaily.com
For people who work on the web, getting access to the Internet is vital. Mobile phone operators in the United States have been investing billions into building out their mobile broadband networks. The cost of 3G data access is in addition to whichever voice plan you have with AT&T, and varies depending ...
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digitaldaily.allthingsd.com
News, analysis and opinion about the digital revolution. Some of the advertisers and Web analytics firms used on this site may place "tracking cookies" on your computer. We are telling you about them right upfront, and we want you to know how to get rid of these tracking cookies if you like.
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paidcontent.org
Clearwire ( NSDQ: CLWR ) and Sprint ( NYSE: S ) Nextel confirmed this morning that they have a definitive agreement to combine their WiMax wireless broadband businesses to form a new company with sufficient resources to be a competitive force going forward. The $14.5 billion deal has a little bit of everything with outside investments coming from a wide-range of companies and pacts to use each otherâs products for services and devices that promise consumers the futureâ"connecting to the Internet at high speeds while on the go.
Found 8 days, 14 hours, 25 minutes, and 49 seconds ago
google.blognewschannel.com
Google entered into an agreement with Sprint and others (Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners), investing half a billion dollars in a new formation of wireless ISP Clearwire . The new company will be 51% Sprint-owned, taking Sprint's Xohm WiMax business. Google's a wireless provider of sorts, now, and will help get open devices, including Android devices, on the network, and provide search and applications for the network.
Google Home
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blogs.siliconvalley.com
If you're working with a still-unproven technology that despite its promise hasn't shaken some nagging questions and has defied previous efforts to turn it into a business, what's the next logical step? That's right -- gather a bunch of parties with some common interests and put together a $14.5 billion joint venture . Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have both been fumbling around with WiMax , a broadband wireless technology that, in theory at least, offers greater coverage and much higher speeds than current offerings.
Found 8 days, 5 hours, 53 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
moconews.net
: (via IHT ) This echoes the view that Sprint did well to limit its capex going forward: "The major issue for Sprint was the money… If Comcast ( NSDQ: CMCSA ), Google and Time Warner ( NYSE: TWX ) invest the money, you'll definitely see it taking off." (Well, eventually)
-- Tim Horan, Oppenheimer :
Found 8 days, 8 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
moconews.net
Over the last year, Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) has made its presence known in the wireless industry, not for its applications, but instead, for its position on open access. The Internet giant has been extremely vocal, arguing that wireless networks should be more like the Internet-they should be available ...
Found 8 days, 11 hours, 12 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
dotnetjunkies.com
Investing in Future of Open Internet
Found 8 days, 12 hours, 50 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
dealarchitect.typepad.com
The Sprint-Clearwire off again/on again WiMax offering is back on again. And that is welcome news for consumers as Verizon and AT&T dominate US telecoms. The fact that Comcast and Time Warner are also investors will mean more "bundles"via cable competition. Stakes in the venture from Intel and Google show increasing convergence between the historically open technology and historically protected telecom sectors. Who knows what will happen between now and 2010 as Verizon and AT&T roll out their own 4G networks and T-Mobile looks to acquire Sprint and on.
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blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com
Why Google Invested in Clearwire -- TechCrunch
Found 8 days, 11 hours, 41 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
blogs.pcworld.com
Some of the tech world's biggest players have formed an alliance to bring high-speed wireless Internet access to the masses by 2010 using the emerging WiMax technology. Firms Brighthouse Networks, Comcast, Google, Intel, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable make up some of the financial backers of the new venture to be called Clearwire worth an estimated $14.5 billion.
WiMax promises to bring faster wireless Internet speeds to mobile devices and computers. WiMax has the potential to deliver wireless service at broadband speeds over distances of up to 50 kilometres from the nearest connection point.
Found 8 days, 13 hours, 44 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
dailywireless.org
Analysis by Juniper Research indicates up to 12% of the global DSL installed base will be substituted by WiMAX by 2013. The Far East will lead with over one fifth of the 47 million subscribers in 2013.
According to Unstrung :
Found 8 days, 12 hours, 29 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
paymentsnews.com
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine their next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company. In addition, Intel Capital, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks - have collectively agreed to invest $3.2 billion into the new company to be named Clearwire. Google's Larry Adler comments on the Official Google Blog about Google's participation in the new company. It will be fascinating to watch how this affects mobile Internet usage for financial services applications.
Found 8 days, 11 hours, 12 minutes, and 13 seconds ago
blog.searchenginewatch.com
Google has been busy on the legal, tech and policy front lately, and there's a primary theme running through all of their pursuits: Google loves wide open spaces.
First up, as is being widely reported, Clearwire and Spring are combining their wifi and broadband services. But did you know Google is one of the companies behind the $3.2 billion deal? They've teamed with Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners to create the new company.
Sprint's 2.
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blog.clickz.com
Google has signed onto a venture, led by Sprint, to develop and deliver high-speed wireless Internet access for mobile devices, according to a published report.
Comcast, Time Warner, Intel, Clearwire, and others are set to announce they will invest $3.2 billion for the technology called WiMax, the WSJ.com reports .
The New York Times, quoting an unidentified source, said Google could provide the search engine for the wireless platform, enabling it to sell advertising there. Google is said to be contributing $500 million to the initiative.
Found 8 days, 14 hours, 34 minutes, and 12 seconds ago
venturebeat.com
Sprint and Clearwire have confirmed yesterday's reports that they're teaming up to create a new wireless broadband company . The new company, which will also be called Clearwire, should be the first to create a national mobile network using Intel's WiMax technology, delivering broadband Internet at a much higher speed than existing 3G networks.
Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner and cable company Bright House Networks will invest $3.2 billion in this new company, while wireless veteran John Stanton's Trilogy Equity Partners will invest directly in the new Clearwire's common stock, which has a target price of $20 per share.
Found 8 days, 11 hours, 11 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
tabletblog.com
Finally the US WiMAX market has some direction. According to CNN (via Engadget ) Sprint and Clearwire will merge their efforts with more investments from Intel, Google, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, and Bright House Networks.
Found 8 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
dubiousquality.blogspot.com
K Anderson sent me a link to a story about PrimeSense , an Israeli company, and this is very similar to what I've been writing about:
Found 9 days, 9 hours, 2 minutes, and 31 seconds ago
dealbreaker.com
You know the media expectations game. There were actually some polls that had Barack Obama winning Indiana. But, he so consistently collapsed on primary day that small poll leads for him usually translated into significant, 10-point losses. SO when that didn't happen, and instead lost by just 2 percent, in a race that went deep into the night, the media called him the victor. Russert called him the nominee and he ticked up about 8 points on Intrade to around $.88 on the dollar.
Sprint and Cle
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webmove.org
PrimeSense could add 3D vision to consoles
Found 8 days, 16 hours, 33 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
pehub.com
* Sprint and Clearwire announce a massive WiMax deal , but Erick Schonfeld calls it a disaster in waiting .
* Hillary attacks Wall Street . Maybe Wall Street responded by temporarily switching its voter registration to North Carolina.
* WPP won't be left out of the tech takeover drama.
* Evan Newmark on L egg Mason's earnings . My question: How is Legg being affected by its recent headfirst dive into big-money Web 2.0 investing?
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feeds.feedburner.com
It's official: Sprint Nextel (S) will roll its next-generation wireless network , which uses a technology called WiMax, into Clearwire (CLWR), in a $14.5 billion deal . The company hopes to build out a network that would reach 120-140 million people by the end of 2010. Sprint's initial WiMax plans, announced almost two years ago, were to reach 100 million people by the end of this year.
Sprint and Clearwire are hosting a conference call right now. See below for LIVE notes.
Sprint will have 51% equity ownership of the new company, Clearwire's existing shareholders will own 27%, and a host of investors from the cable and technology industries will own about 22% of the company.
Found 8 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
gadgetsonthego.net
Sprint, Clearwire To Create New Mobile Broadband Co.
Found 8 days, 11 hours, 26 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
nyquistcapital.com
Tech Trader Daily - Barron?s Online : Sprint, Clearwire Make It Official, Form WiMax Venture
Found 8 days, 9 hours, 33 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
brandingpost.com
OK, great. More wireless access is better than less. But a closer look reveals flaws that no amount of marketing will remedy, much less build a good business for. The measure here is a good old fashioned value proposition - a concept that's been lost in so translations it's absurd. The point: a relevant value proposition is the cornerstone of all successful brands AND enterprises, from start-ups on up to household names in global business (such as the investors in Clearwire!). The best value propositions for products or services contain the same three elements:
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gottabemobile.com
- Warner Crocker Are you, like me, one who gets confused about the differences between HSDPA and EVDO, which carrier offers which and what you might have to pay to use it? Web Worker Daily has posted what amounts to a primer on Broadband options available in the US that might help you sort through some of the questions you might have. The WWD post also includes some good info WiFi options out in the wild as well.
Hat tip to jkOnTheRun
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informationweek.com
With its $500 million investment the $12 billion Sprint-Clearwire partnership , Google buys itself a hedge against the possibility that the open access rules it fought to link to the C Block of the 700 MHz spectrum might be flouted.
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wireless-weblog.com
Clearwire and Sprint today announced plans to combine Sprint's Xohm WiMax offering and Clearwire's WiMax network into a new $14.55 billion company, to be called - shockingly enough - Clearwire. Additional investors in the new company include Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
"For Sprint, which began testing WiMax earlier this year in three markets, the deal eliminates an operational distraction and allows management to return to salvaging its troubled wireless business," writes the AP's David Twiddy .
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googlereferral.com
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urmad.pagalguy.com
Yep. Am back to writing about my pet interest in blogging…..Although the tech world had been obsessed by the Micro(almost)hoo acquisition, it's quite interesting to see that Google has been doing all that is possible to ensure that it has a continued relevance when online search advertising starts to saturate and moves to different platforms ! Their latest announcement of a $500 million investment in Clearwire, is interesting…I, for one, have kinda taken a liking to google's strong arm posturing, considering the cash that they are sitting on….
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dj.riceweevil.com
Advice for 1985: how to survive a nuclear blast . (via delicious ghost ) ( link )
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disruptivetelephony.com
Google provides a statement on its blog: " Investing in the future of the open Internet " ( TechCrunch has commentary )
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bits.blogs.nytimes.com
Google has long said that its best hope for future growth comes from mobile devices. Today, Google moved to bring that future a bit closer.
The Internet search giant joined an industry consortium that plans to build a next-generation wireless data network. Google is investing $500 million in the project, which is led by Sprint and Clearwire, and will be run by a new entity also called Clearwire.
Google has pursued initiatives intended to promote greater Internet access -- preferably "open" access, meaning that users can choose what applications and services they use.
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mcguireslaw.com
Big Bell Dogma
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dsl.topics-blogs.com
Original post: US Mobile Internet access prospects looking up by at Google Blog Search: "broadband internet access"
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ikeelliott.typepad.com
It's a deal that had to happen. However, the history of joint ventures with widely-varied participants with competing interests is spotty, so success is far from certain.
Meanwhile, this development is just one of two big developments for mobile Internet access this week. The other is from T-Mobile, as reported by Brough Turner on his Communications blog :
Found 8 days, 14 hours, 44 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
news.good-stuff.us
Google has signed onto a venture, led by Sprint, to develop and deliver high-speed wireless Internet access for mobile devices, according to a published report.
Comcast, Time Warner, Intel, Clearwire, and others are set to announce they will invest $3.2 billion for the technology called WiMax, the WSJ.com reports .
Google is said to be the preferred software developer on the network. Its search service would be the default on new mobile devices, the WSJ.com reports.
Plans call for the wireless data-and-voice network to have the download speeds of cable broadband and the reach of a cellphone network.
Found 8 days, 14 hours, 34 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
informationweek.com
It's almost poetic. Like a phoenix reincarnated from the ashes of its former self, Sprint and Clearwire have formed a new joint venture to roll out mobile Wimax to the masses. And this time its more than just words. The companies are teaming up with a handful of cable operators, as well as Intel and Google (man, Google is just everywhere these days), to forge a $14.22 billion entity known as Clearwire.
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technologyowl.com
Link: feeds.arstechnica.com
5/7/2008 10:24:31 AM : permalink
Found 8 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes, and 32 seconds ago
informationweek.com
To help match some of the threats and one-up VPNs, Google used its Postini acquisition to create Web Security for Enterprise. Google may be denying that there's a brain drain going on, as the BBC reports, but that doesn't mean it's not happening. In case you hadn't heard, mobile employees are a threat ...
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techpolicysummit.blogs.com
It's official...Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are joining forces to create a new -- and, they hope, improved -- wireless broadband company under the Clearwire brand.
After a rocky partnership that was put on hold last November with the announcement that the two had ended their agreement to develop a nationwide WiMAX network, Sprint and Clearwire are once again on the WiMAX bandwagon together. And they're not alone.
The "new" Clearwire has help in the form of a $3.2 billion investment from Intel, Comcast, Google, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
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