Harry wrote:
I guess WSTL still is in ADSL; but if it was more, why is WSTL participating in these events?
Westell's announcement I take to indicate they are as committed to ADSL as ever:
go2net.newsalert.com
PR Newswire - March 04, 1999 16:45
AURORA, Ill., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Westell Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: WSTL) announced today that it has embarked on a new strategy to allow the company to participate actively in the DSL industry while continuing to grow its other businesses, Telco Access Products (TAP) and Conference Plus, Inc. (CPI).
Westell's restructuring IMO is a attempt to find some profitability in the way ADSL is rolling out so they can stay in the game. It clearly is not the way many thought and they can't continue selling below costs. RBOCs and regulations are not making for a rapid deployment and MOT and TI are not what we hoped.
Its hard to garner information from some of these tech threads. SI is pretty good, but Yahoo, and especially the Westell Yahoo, has become as informative as the toilet stall at a bus depot. It's sad to see that some people left unscrutinized have let an opportunity for meaningful sharing of information become a venue for smut, smear, and sleaze. Many hard working and dedicated professionals are slandered without accountability by anonymous posters.
dailynews.yahoo.com
Tuesday March 9 11:52 PM ET
Anonymous posting under attack
By Maria Seminerio, ZDNet
Two recent lawsuits against anonymous contributors to Yahoo! Inc.'s financial bulletin board have intensified the stormy debate over how far free-speech protections extend to the Web.
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The company sued 10 "John Does" Monday for making allegedly defamatory comments about it on the Yahoo! board.
One contributor named in the suit, who went by the pseudonym "Delusional5," posted an erroneous allegation that the company's founder had been arrested for accepting kickbacks, according to the lawsuit.
"Delusional5" and the other defendants "used the anonymity of the Internet to damage the reputation and undermine the business of a legitimate company," Wade Cook attorney Paul Anderson told Reuters.
Falsely claiming in public that a CEO had been dragged off in handcuffs -- regardless of the forum -- would clearly be defamatory, the ACLU official and other observers said.
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"Presumably if you're just a crank and you're just posting lies about a company to get back at somebody, it eventually comes out," she said. "But people have to realize the Yahoo! financial boards are not the Wall Street Journal."
Westell and ADSL still dating,
Michael |
