Comcast invests in WiMax company Cartiza

Comcast invests in WiMax company Cartiza

Comcast announced today it has invested an undisclosed sum in seed-round funding to mobile WiMax company Cartiza.

Founded in late 2006, the Boston, Mass. company has previously raised $12.6 million in funding, according to the Boston Business Journal. Cartiza is reportedly in stealth mode, working on infrastructure software for the next generation of mobile broadband. While the company website doesn’t say so, it is working with WiMax: Cartiza is listed in the WiMax Forum membership roster.

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Roundup: Floating data centers, Xobni, Jaffe, Lanzone, Revver & more

Roundup: Floating data centers, Xobni, Jaffe, Lanzone, Revver & more

Here’s the latest action:
1. Data centers floating in the SF Bay?
2. CEO of search engine Ask goes to Redpoint
3. Xobni’s Outlook plugin enhanced
4. Microsoft dealmaker Bruce Jaffe to join startup life
5. Yahoo’s browser-based player now public
6. Readburner lets you see what’s shared on Google Reader
7. Nextreme keeps chips cool
8. Planting hairy plants may help prevent global warming?
9. Intel to launch WiMax PC card by June
10. LiveUniverse buying video sharing site Revver?
11. Terry Semel restarting investment… Continue Reading

Roundup: Six Apart’s memo, VCs and sex toys, WiMax in 2008, Newser.com & more

Roundup: Six Apart’s memo, VCs and sex toys, WiMax in 2008, Newser.com & more

Here’s the latest (updated) action:

Six Apart’s headaches — The blogging software market is highly competitive, so small differences in quality can make a difference in user adoption. Six Apart, a Silicon Valley start-up that offers several blogging software platforms, including Movable Type, has released a product after acknowledging internally it could make developers mad. [Six Apart’s Anil Dash has since responded in comments, saying the company took time to fix the bugs for the release. The… Continue Reading