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Hybrid Fixed and Mobile Telephony
Iorek writes "Both Ericsson and BT have launched telephony products that erode the barriers between mobile phones and landlines. Ericsson's One Phone is a PBX system that can treat any mobile phone as an extension of the corporate phone network, while the BT Fusion handset behaves like a conventional fixed line cordless phone when it's near its base station (Bluetooth connection), and connects to the Vodafone network once it's out of range." -
Games Industry Venture Capital Plummets
Thanks to ElectricNews.net for a synopsis discussing the difficulty of raising venture capital for the games industry. They reference a Wall Street Journal article mentioning that only USD37 million was invested in games-related firms in the US in 2002, down from USD66.9 million the year before and a peak of USD295.3 million in 1999. According to the article, apart from the wider downturn in VC activity since the late 1990s: "'Historically, in the games business, a lot of companies really succeeded by hitting it big with one blockbuster,' says Jon Callaghan, managing director at Globespan Capital Partners. 'As a VC, it's very hard to invest in that.'"