Yet another social networking site you’ve probably never heard of is - alas - shutting down. Following in the footsteps of Conde Nast and Verizon’s social networking communities, Monster.com’s personal networking community site, Tickle, is closing it’s doors. The company provides interpersonal content and services (self-discovery, matchmaking, career and social networking).
Silicon Alley Insider is reporting the story. Tickle apparently sent this email out to its 17 million members:
We will be shutting down Tickle as of June 30th 2008. You will no longer be able to access your saved test results after that date. If you would More»

Labels: conde naste, Social Networking, social networks, verizon, web 2.0

Sprint’s wimax initiatives appeared to falter last year as they faced serious challenges from ATT and Verizon and broke up with Clearwire, but there is a new broadband wind in Sprint’s sails and the New York Times is reporting that a major wimax technology consortium will be announced soon - probably tomorrow. The consortium includes Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner and Clearwire.
Two big advantages of wimax broadband is that it can provide extensive rural connectivity where a single tower can provide broadband coverage over an area of many square miles. Also, wimax offers great More»

Labels: ATT, broadband, sprint, verizon, wimax

The dust is finally settling from the recent US Government auction of licenses to operate using the 700MHZ spectrum that will be freed as Televisions move to “digital only” signals in 2009.
Verizon was the winner of most of the new spectrum by bidding the highest, and thus will have a new and commanding mobile presence. However Google has some ideas of their own about how to use the “white space”, or unused parts of the spectrum, for WIFI signals to handheld devices. Many analysts feel that Google was participating in the multi-billion high stakes auction for More»

Labels: 700mhz auction, open handset alliance, verizon