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Old January 7th, 2009
Larry
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Default Nokia pulls plug on N810 WIMAX tablet!

http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=5986

Someone pointed me to this, so just to make the fruitphoners drool I'll
post it for ya. As I understand it, Portland's Wimax is different than the
Xohm flavor installed in Baltimore, pre-Clearwire. Not sure how. There's
also a worldwide dispute as to what BAND the Wimax should be on....to
standardize the planet, JUST THIS ONCE!

Nokia recalled all the distributors' stock but the word I got about
recalling the sold units from users I haven't found. Nokia said the poor
WiMax rollout in the USA in only 2 cities is the reason.

In other news, Intel and Time-Warner are both claiming large losses in the
partnership deal they have with Clear/Xohm on financial news reports:
http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-in...off-clearwire-
investment-time-warner-350-milli/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1231...52760741.html?
mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo
This writeoff may be related to Intel's very poor performance in 4Q,
missing the target quite a bit and Time-Warner's $25 BILLION writedown on
assets as its business goes in the dumper from the depression....

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker...rner-Warns-of-
Net-Loss-for-08%3B-Expects-%2425B-Impairment-Charge

OUCH!@|

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