Nick Hanauer. What to do About that Chip on Your Shoulder? I’m fond of saying that I look for entrepreneurs that have a chip on their shoulder.
That they have something to prove. That they’re not afraid to stick their noses up to the establishment. I have always felt this way. It’s something I kind of seek out. I guess my thoughts are that if you’re part of the country club you have a vested interest in protecting the existing order and that disruption happens more from those that are on the outside wanting to change the rules.
I’m ok with founders who have “father issues.” It’s a certain edginess that I like. In fact, I think those around me must tire of my repetitive advice, “Be careful of wanting to be liked too much. I’ve written about similar topics: 1. I have a healthy appetite for working with immigrants or children of immigrants. I’m looking for the Visigoths, not the Roman. And this is the point of this post – be careful about your chip. Here’s a story. I was at a conference 18 monts ago or so. Sure. And usually it’s much more subtle. p.s. 4G Wireless now faster than wired Internet. I have been using various forms of wireless data for nearly 20 years, starting with the first Mobitex networks with the precursors of the Blackberry that were the size of small bricks.
Today was a major milestone for me: the first time that I got better speeds over my phone than my computer with a broadband cable modem over ordinary wires. In my quick tests, my Charter 15 MB connection delivered about 9 MB for downloads, and about 3 MB for uploads. That is plenty fast for me, although I do notice that sometimes it is a lot slower.
Which is what you would expect from a shared cable modem connection. Now, I could purchase a faster package from Charter, they have a variety of offerings even up to 100 MB down but still only 5 MB up. My AT&T 3G iPhone delivered about 1 MB down and half a meg up. And it isn’t just me: PC World found multiple megabit speeds on the various 4G networks that it tested this week as well, with AT&T reaching close to 10 MB/sec averaged across 10 cities. News. National and Local Weather Forecast, Hurricane, Radar and Report. Investigating The May Sell-Off In Clearwire: Who Or What Is Responsible? Clearwire CTO: We'll offer VoLTE when we launch TD-LTE network. Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) CTO John Saw said the WiMAX provider will offer Voice over LTE technology when it launches its LTE Advanced-ready network by June 2013.
"It's really up to our wholesale customers," he said in an interview with FierceWireless. "If they choose to do Voice over LTE, our network would certainly be capable of supporting that. " He added: "Because we plan to be a wholesaler of LTE bandwidth, we need to make sure our network has the RF performance and metrics to support Voice over LTE. " Sign up for our FREE newsletter for more news like this sent to your inbox!
Clearwire plans to launch 5,000 TD-LTE base stations by the summer of next year in major metro markets including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. The industry overall is moving toward VoLTE technology as a way to make voice calls clearer and the transmission of voice more network efficient. China approves Google's purchase of Motorola, as long as Android stays open and free. The whole ordeal is finally over everyone.
Google is finally allowed to own Motorola. It's been a long time coming, both the EU and the US both approved the deal back on February 13th and the holdup has been with China. China's anti-monopoly bureau has taken its time in reviewing the purchase, but apparently all concerns have been sorted out. A Google spokesman has confirmed that Chinese regulators gave the okay for the purchase on Saturday (which at this point is technically yesterday for China), and the formal approval should be coming this week.
According to reports, there is one major stipulation given by the Chinese regulators which says that approval is based on the promise that Google will keep Android open and freely available to anyone who wants to use it for the next 5 years. Once the formal approval comes, Google will finally own Motorola Mobility and the 17,000 patents that go along with it.