Regulated radio frequences are a thing from the past. Obviously governments were making loads of money a few years back thanks to 3G-menia. Maybe this boom could be avoided in the future. Forget the regulation part... Andrew Lippman of MIT Media was talking about the same issue in the spring.
European VC market is recovering according to the recent Amsterdam gathering of some 400 private equity investors from 30 countries (reg. req.)
My own barometer is telling the same: this time the metrix is an amount of invitiations to various corporate parties and inaugurations... For a second I thought I was so popular but then the reality hit (unfortunately). It's the economy, stupid!
BTW, Yesterday Hyppönen of F-Secure was telling that the blackout in States was due to Lovsan virus - well the magnitude at least. Sounded like the usual conspiracy theories but you never know...
Posted at October 7, 2003 02:51 PM