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Mobilestar Less Mobile; Excite@Home Less Exciting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the companies-in-freefall dept.

jc1 writes: "MobileStar, provider of 802.11b wireless LAN connectivity throughout 500 of the USA's Starbucks cafes, has laid off 88 of its staff, which a source described as "everybody". With the demise in August of Metricom's Ricochet service, one is left to wonder if there is a business to be made in providing public wireless Internet services." Or any broadband internet access at all - Excite@Home, currently in bankruptcy proceedings, has stopped taking any new orders.

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  1. And this comes after... by narfbot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It must be Bert. He's plotting against internet now that his story is out.

  2. I just got cable installed... by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I moved from DSL to Cable - mostly because of the price/bandwidth issues of DSL. Yes I have got over 441kilobytes per second - quite often too over cable. That much bandwidth on DSL would cost me (if I could get it - which I can't) anywhere from 240-400$ per month. I've purchased 7mbps dsl for a company I used to work for - and I've rarely seen it go over 300kilobytes per second and just the bandwidth cost 240$.

    I sure hope they don't shut down the cable networks - because I kinda like it here :).

  3. the path of least resistance is XP by jonbrewer · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I believe most of the functionality you mentioned has been "assimilated" into XP. :-)

    Another point: linux distro CDs will cease to be readily available in the coming months. Stores are realizing that they are full of out-of-date stock of various distros that aren't selling. Don't believe me? Go to Staples/OfficeMax/GenericOfficeStore and look in their clearance section. It's sad.

    So I think that the loss of broadband providers will have no positive impact on OSS.

  4. Re:Let's see how they like jihad at 400,000,000C by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Trident II (D-5) Fleet Ballistic Missile will be delivered from Ohio class ("Crimson Tide" anyone?)

    Actually, "crimson tide" USS alabama SSBN-731, is an older Trident that carries the C-4 missle. The newer, more potent D5's are carried by the newer Trident subs based in Georgia (Alabama's homeport is in Wash state).

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  5. Along these lines by Microsift · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They have crapless craps at the Stratosphere Casino...unfortunatel they haven't figured out how to take the Rou out of Roulette.

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  6. wow almost a palindrome by Microsift · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (message number)

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