Demand Media, an internet how-to and general information provider with headquarters in Santa Monica, went public Wednesday to the tune of some $1.5 billion. The more time goes by, the more companies I was salivating over working at last year turn out to look pretty crummy. In 2010 they invited me to interview for theContinue reading “Santa Monica Content Provider Goes Public”
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Sprint CDMA Rev. A in Santa Monica
If you don’t look at the latency (“ping”) this could be an old school ADSL on copper – pretty cool. I hope to soon go back to the intersection of Fedora and Olympic (in my previous tests the strongest WiMAX signal between downtown Los Angeles and the beach) to see how the signal is withContinue reading “Sprint CDMA Rev. A in Santa Monica”
Hard Haunted Mansion 2010 at the Shrine Expo Auditorium
Sprint 4G / WiMax Service for Los Angeles Due in December
I bumped in to a guy on Saturday who said he worked for Clearwire. We got to talking about Sprint and 4G handsets. I asked him about the “private beta” 4G deployment in Los Angeles. He confirmed its existence and that it was working, but generally only available to employees of Sprint, their relatives, andContinue reading “Sprint 4G / WiMax Service for Los Angeles Due in December”
Civil Servant Salaries Stupify Citizenry
The Times reported Thursday that Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo earns nearly twice the salary of President Obama, Police Chief Randy Adams gets paid about 50% more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, and Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia receives more than the chief executive for Los Angeles County.Rizzo makes $787,637, Adams makes $457,000Continue reading “Civil Servant Salaries Stupify Citizenry”
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