Wi-LAN Announces Third Quarter 2006 Financial Results: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Nobody has really been talking much about Wi-LAN, a tiny company up in Calgary, but it claims to have patents which are required for the implementation for CDMA 2000, 802.11g and 802.16 (WiMAX). Last year, the received a $10,000,000 settlement from Cisco. Most in the know say that this settlement was far below market value because Wi-LAN was in such dire straits financially. Wi-LAN was struggling with its equipment division business and losing millions each quarter. Several months ago, a shareholder coup, landed a revised BOD and Jim Skippen, the former CEO of Mosaid Technologies at the helm. Mosaid actively enforced their patent portfolio as their main source of revenue.

This most recent financial announcements shows Wi-LAN's cash burn at just $400K this quarter in stark contrast to the 2-4 million burns of yesteryear. With fewer than 10 employees and a recent warchest of 16 million, Wi-LAN is going after infringers without the financial burden of the equipment division.If Wi-LAN is able to announce some licensing deals and make some progress with the current D-LINK lawsuit, this stock stands to gain substantially. WIFI, WIMAX and CDMA are integral to the lives of literally hundreds of millions of people. This is not small potatoes.

Read more at biz.yahoo.com/ccn/06083...

Gabriel - How-to: Use your shiny new Treo 700p as a USB Modem for your laptop and get super-fast Sprint EVDO speeds

This looks like the page to help you connect your MacBook to the new Treo 700p. Happy surfing!

Read more at www.gabrielserafini.com...

UTVols News and Opinions

Just completed a site and direction redesign for the utvols.com domain. We're trying to improve the performance of the site by getting authors to post unique content. We hope to increase rss syndication and help increase traffic to the site.

Read more at www.utvols.com/

CodeWeavers - CrossOver Mac

I was just checking out all the options for running windows on the new Intel Mac Books. There are basically 3 layers.

1) A dual boot scenario involving Apple's Boot Camp2) A virtualized machine using parallels3) This product by codeweavers that runs the PC executable without a virtual machine.The Mac is just getting cooler and cooler.

Read more at www.codeweavers.com/pro...

GigaOM : » Sprint’ Super Fast EVDO This Fall

EVDO Rev A is the next gen from EVDO Rev 0. Expect 800 Kbps down by 300Kbps up. Sprint is promising deliver by 4th Q 2006.

Read more at gigaom.com/2006/08/04/s...

Syncbridge

A (hopefully) very promising app for Mac users to allow for syncing between machines as well as directly to Google Calendar.

Syncbridge Homepage

Treadmill Dudes

This is creative. Not sure where they find the time...but I am jealous.

A hugely inconvenient Google Accounts Bug

Friday, I felt the need to share a Google Spreadsheet with my wife. Based on the information that I had, it appeared that Google spreadsheets were only available to those with a gmail account, so I sent my wife a gmail invitation. She clicked the link from her invite and went through the registration process, but, since my Google Account was apparently logged in, my base account email address (a non-google domain) was changed to a gmail.com address. Well folks it got ugly from here. Now, many of the services that I use on a daily basis were linked to the same Account but with my wife's new email address as the login.

I sent an email to the Google Accounts support team requesting that they change my email back. Nope they said. I would have to create another Google account with my desired email address (the original one) and then re-link all my services to that. This was fine for adwords....there is a handy re-linking process under account prefs, but this feature does not exist for Google Calendar or Google Spreadsheets. Fortunately, it looks like adsense stands apart from the Google Master Account.

I admire Google for the most part. Right now, however, I am pissed off. They have a bug which allows a user to change their account to a gmail.com domain but does not allow me to change it back to a non-gmail.com domain. GRRR.