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Sprint completely missed the ball on their acquisition of Nextel, resulting in an awful acquisition that also laid waste to the main brand.  Now, SK Telekom or Deutsche Telekom is poised to do exactly the same thing.  You want due diligence, come to the true experts for answers.

Some things will be cloud based, MSFT, GOOG and AMZN are all betting on it.  for middle market companies having computing in the cloud may make sense. But it comes with risk

Sure, Google gets the best out of the deal with a weakened Yahoo and a non-strengthened Microsoft, but I'm not sure if this deal would have been good for Microsoft anyway.  They showed a lack of brutish eagerness that has hurt Yahoo, near fatally, and that hurt could help Microsoft climb up the...

Buyers beware is an understatement with Sprint Nextel.  They have so many gashes in their underbelly that I have difficulty seeing how they could be a worthwhile acquisition, unless the price drops much further.  T-Mobile is not in a powerful position in the market, and combining the two seems...

Yahoo's move into Yahoo Glue is a smart concession in the basic textual search world and a desire to innovate the search experience.  Good for them.  But this is a complicated delivery in a world dominated by simple user experiences, and that is what Yahoo must concentrate on in order to succeed....

Employees posting full profiles at work certainly poses dangers to employees, should they be arrogantly drawn and rudely sketched. But this and other elements of the Social Web allow for benefits to both employee and employer.  More importantly, this two-way conversation is inevitable, so it is...

In the short-term, Sprint has salvaged their WiMax opportunity, but a quick look back shows you how much they have really lost.  On the other hand, sly Google had another ace up its sleeve, and their wireless strategy is becoming clearer by the day.

Did I help kill the local daily? The Capital Times, an afternoon daily in Madison, Wis., this weekend folded its print edition and became an online-only newspaper.  As an online marketer do I think this is a likely to continue trend and more so, do I feel a tad bit responsible or...

Wireless researchers keep getting the voice to data point wrong, and they shouldn't still be making this mistake.  Consumers aren't using data because they have been given poor devices with poor interfaces, not because they wouldn't use the Internet or other data if the device was better. ...

The delay in Sprint's Xohm initiative is absolutely telling, telling that there are many problems with WiMax.  The truth is that the U.S. needs faster broadband speeds to compete with Japan and Europe, but I'm not sure if Sprint has the answer.  This article discusses some of the major problems,...