March 08, 2007
VoIP Roundup - Thur Mar 08, 2007
Skype Founder Janus Friis: Mile-High Bad Boy
Valleywag reported
a couple of days ago that Janus Friis, one of the founders of Kazaa,
Skype and Joost, and a millionaire by all accounts, got drunk and
frisky with his girlfriend while on a Virgin Airlines flight. Get this:
his girlfriend is the daughter of Roger Moore. As in Bond, James Bond.
Clearwire IPO Snags $600M
Intel may have come up with WiMax but Clearwire is the company building the networks in the United States. Doing that cost them $240M last year, but their IPO today generated $600M.
RIM's Balsillie Steps Down
Sort of. Jim Balsillie of RIM,
maker of the BlackBerry line of mobile communications devices, has
stepped down as a Chair of the Waterloo, Canada, company. This is due
in part to an error in earnings reporting that will cost RIM US$250M.
[Source: Kitchener-Waterloo local TV] Maybe Balsillie can spend the
extra time finding a hockey team.
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