Yesterday in one of my blog entries, I opined about Cablevisions decision to provide some data services. The entry was titled Triple Play Becomes Quadruple and Quintuple Play. I mentioned that wireless was the missing piece of the puzzle and also that Sprint would be the likely network they should approach to resell the service.

Little did I know that TMCnets Johanne Torres was writing about a similar topic in an article titled Time Warner Cable to Resell Sprint Cellular Service. Sprint seems uniquely positioned in the wireless resale market as other carriers dont resell service at the moment.

It will be interesting to see how WiMAX service providers will change the face of competition in the wireless voice resale business.

I love the Internet because it is so democratic. What I love even more is that it is a self-documenting mechanism and nothing gets thrown away. I was researching for a blog entry that mentioned Y2K and came across the following site and post where I am personally trashed. I am not only trashed but an entire community of scholars chimed in.

They were all wrong of course.

Are we back? Is it true? I have seen the stocks of eBay and Google rocket ever higher and now this, Amazon logged orders at a rate of 32 items per second over the holiday season! This was their busiest Christmas in history. I read about this amazing achievement in the BBC article titled Amazon Trumpets record Christmas.

Yesterday, TMCs newest blogger Al Bredenberg also blogged this story titled Amazon's 10 Years: E-Commerce Revolution Continues. Palatino">In the entry Al talks about how many people thought Bezos was crazy when the Internet first started out. Now these people are all jumping on the Internet bandwagon.

From an investment standpoint it seems that the Internet stocks that made it to this point for the most part are going to grow and grow.

Getting back to events, my friend wanted to know how the different events stack up against one another. These days, every show on the planet seems to want to be a VoIP show. Knowing we launched the first event in this space focusing bringing in buyers, not industry insiders he asked my how I would explain our conference was the best one for his dollars.

These a great article from a site called rednova. I never heard of this site but this article gives great insight into Verizon and their VoIP plans. The article consists of an interview with Stuart Elby, Verizon Network Services vice president for Network Architecture.

One of the more interesting quotes attributed to Elby is:

"We're throwing as much out there as we can to see what's going to take,"he says.

It is great to see an entrenched player experimenting. In some ways VoIP makes it easier to play around with new services such as IP Centrex. The article also gives a unique view into the problems that todays VoIP service providers face when rolling out service.

I received this e-mail today and thought it worth responding to.

So should they listen to Tom and lower their price? No, in my opinion. I say this because the company has access to a virtually unlimited supply of remnant advertising. They have likely spent the equivalent of 100 million dollars this year alone based on my TV watching research. (I think I finally found a way to expense my cable bill :-)

In addition, customers want one bill and this is a way to provide that.

There cannot be a bigger fan of any technology that reduces the worlds addiction to oil. While billions are poured into R&D to find alternative power sources, is it possible that high school kid from California holds all the answers. Well maybe not all of them but it seems that a gyroscopic powerplant using the ocean as an energy source could be in our future. Way to go Aarin Goldin.