Driving Me To Cable

AT&T announced a new privacy policy today. AT&T’s new policy states: “While your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others or respond to legal process.” Safeguard others or respond to […]

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June 21, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Uncategorized

Shadoobie, Flattered

Great progress with the Alele concept over the past couple of days. The ATDC asked me to apply to become a member company. Which to me is big, big news, and I am literally flattered that they think enough of the concept and the team to think we could be a valuable addition to the […]

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June 15, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Uncategorized

KO’d

Coke does not get it. Mentos is tickled pink that they are getting $10 million in free buzz from an experiment. Coke’s reaction: “Craziness with Mentos does not fit with the brand personality of Diet Coke.” The folks over on North Avenue need to loosen up. Speaking of lossening up. Check this out:

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June 13, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Uncategorized

I am a Business Geek

Back when he was at OmniSky and before we got to how each other very well Elan Amir and I were in a meeting discussing something or the other. Out of nowhere he looked at me and asked. “Are you a marketing person or a technology person?” After a brief bit of thought I replied, […]

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June 9, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Uncategorized

Said

I was forunate to have lunch with Said Mohammadioun today. Said goes way back. The first company he founded Samna was the first, yes first Windows based word processer. Said was kind to spend some time with me. I was looking for some advice on Alele. Alele is a company concept that I have been […]

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June 6, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Uncategorized

Net Neutrality Picking Up Steam

According to Siobhan Hughes at the WSJ the Web toll was voted down by a house panel. WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to ban the nation’s phone and cable companies from charging extra fees to companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Google Inc. for speedier delivery of their content. [no wides] […]

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May 25, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Uncategorized

Nicer Pants

I won the Bills baseball memories contest this week. You can read my entry and others. They are shipping me a pair of M1 twills in cement. They are the best. Made my day. It’s the little things. And they got me to talk about their product. And I will continue to do so for […]

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May 23, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Uncategorized