Cometa Pulls the Plug on Wi-Fi

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AOL pulls plug on AOL TV

AOL pulls plug on AOL TV 02/21/2003 07:49 PM
Google Inc. of Mountain View, the popular, Internet-search company, agreed to acquire San Francisco-based blogging software developer Pyra Labs. ...

Lithuania pulls the plug

Lithuania pulls the plug 09/21/2004 03:14 AM
USA Today Sep 21 2004 6:12AM GMT

AOL Pulls Plug on Usenet

AOL Pulls Plug on Usenet 02/01/2005 09:15 PM
"AOL is pulling the plug on servers hosting newsgroups. AOL subscribers will no longer be able to access such groups directly.."

DoCoMo Pulls the Plug on AOL

DoCoMo Pulls the Plug on AOL 12/17/2003 06:10 PM
Wireless Watch Japan Dec 17 2003 3:56PM ET

Microsoft Pulls Plug on MSN for Mac

Microsoft Pulls Plug on MSN for Mac 03/14/2005 04:41 PM
Microsoft announced Friday that it is no longer supporting the Mac OS X version of MSN after May 31. The company said it will send a notice to all of its Mac-based subscribers through the next several weeks. While MSN is ending its run on the Mac, Microsoft said it still intends to support Apple's flaghsip OS.

Cisco pulls plug on Comindico

Cisco pulls plug on Comindico 09/24/2004 12:05 PM
Melbourne Age Sep 24 2004 3:45PM GMT

Apache Pulls the Plug on Avalon

Apache Pulls the Plug on Avalon 12/24/2004 12:17 PM
Extreme Tech Dec 24 2004 3:24PM GMT

UK uni pulls plug on Oracle project

UK uni pulls plug on Oracle project 09/13/2004 07:07 AM
And demands £2m refund

JP Morgan pulls plug on $5bn IBM deal

JP Morgan pulls plug on $5bn IBM deal 09/16/2004 11:31 AM
Computer Business Review Sep 16 2004 3:46PM GMT

Internet exhibitionist pulls the plug

Internet exhibitionist pulls the plug 12/10/2003 10:22 AM
ONE News Dec 10 2003 9:01AM ET

Apple pulls plug on CRT iMac

Apple pulls plug on CRT iMac 03/19/2003 10:43 PM
Apple today quietly removed the original G3-based CRT iMac from the online Apple Store...

S.D. Pulls Plug on Part of Library Site
(AP)

S.D. Pulls Plug on Part of Library Site
(AP) 07/13/2004 03:25 PM
AP - The governor shut down the teen section of the South Dakota State Library's Web site, saying it included links to material he doesn't believe young people should see.

Google Pulls Plug on "onmouseover" Pages

Google Pulls Plug on "onmouseover" Pages 06/29/2004 10:19 AM
"... several sites that used the increasingly popular tactic of creating keyword stuffed entry pages that forward to the true home page via the onmouseover javascript command are no longer found at all in the index."

HP officially pulls plug on e3000 series

HP officially pulls plug on e3000 series 10/31/2003 05:14 PM
As of today, Hewlett-Packard is ending sales of its midrange e3000 systems. Loyal fans are marking the event with wakes, barbecues and drinks.

Microsoft pulls plug on XP SP2 after
users say they're not ready

Microsoft pulls plug on XP SP2 after
users say they're not ready 08/17/2004 11:47 AM
silicon.com Aug 17 2004 3:34PM GMT

Microsoft Pulls Plug on Windows 98
Support

Microsoft Pulls Plug on Windows 98
Support 12/15/2003 03:17 PM
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will stop supporting Windows 98 on January 16th, although the software giant has said it may continue to release security patches for the older operating system if security problems warrant it. The company ceased its free Windows 98 support on July 1, 2003, and began charging callers US$35 per incident. After the January 16th cut-off date, users will need to consult the Microsoft Web site for help.

Microsoft Pulls Plug on 'True Fantasy'

Microsoft Pulls Plug on 'True Fantasy' 06/04/2004 11:43 PM
Enterprise Windows I.T. Jun 5 2004 3:43AM GMT

Sony Pulls the Plug on Clie PDA's

Sony Pulls the Plug on Clie PDA's 06/02/2004 12:09 PM
June 01, 2004 Sony Pulls Out Of Handheld Market By Mobile Pipeline News In the face of declining overall sales of handheld devices, Sony said Tuesday that it is backing out of the handheld business in the United States. The company said in a statement that it will not release any new models of its Palm OS-based Clie handhelds in the U.S., although it will continue to release new models in Japan. “Sony is reassessing the direction of the conventional PDA market, and Sony will not introduce any new Sony Clie handheld models in the United States this fall,” the company said in a statement released Tuesday. Read more…

"Microsoft Pulls Plug on Windows 98
Support"

"Microsoft Pulls Plug on Windows 98
Support" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

Microsoft Pulls Plug on Mythica MMORPG

Microsoft Pulls Plug on Mythica MMORPG 02/16/2004 04:48 AM

Court Pulls Plug on SMS Lottery Scammers
(Reuters)

Court Pulls Plug on SMS Lottery Scammers
(Reuters) 05/11/2004 10:50 AM
Reuters - Two Chinese men have been jailed for using cell phone text messages to swindle money from subscribers by telling them they had won lottery prizes, Xinhua news agency said in a report available on Tuesday.

Orlando Pulls Plug On Free Internet
Service

Orlando Pulls Plug On Free Internet
Service 06/22/2005 02:07 AM
Cfadvocate.com - Tue Jun 21, 12:42 pm GMT

As other gadgets proliferate, Sony pulls
plug on its PDAs

As other gadgets proliferate, Sony pulls
plug on its PDAs 06/12/2004 08:35 PM
Los Angeles Times Jun 12 2004 11:38PM GMT

Cometa and Toshiba: And Then There Was
One

Cometa and Toshiba: And Then There Was
One 04/20/2004 02:01 PM
With tiny scattered networks and the loss of McDonald's, Toshiba's SurfHere locations fold into Cometa Networks: As rumors surfaced a few weeks ago about a reduction in force at Toshiba's SurfHere division coupled with the inevitable reason--McDonald's had already informed them that Wayport would be their anointed partner--Toshiba is essentially exiting their poorly formulated and executed hotspot strategy. While Toshiba couldn't gain traction on its turnkey hotspot offering, Cometa gains the ability to include "some or all"--as the press release puts it--of SurfHere's hundreds of locations. Reading between the lines, they can cherry pick outlets that make sense to Cometa's mission. Cometa's current count of hotspots in their directory is about 100 excluding the McDonald's that will be taken over by Wayport. The Barnes & Noble deal, a year in the making, will eventually add 500 locations in the U.S. to Cometa's list. Toshiba is a massive computer manufacturer, however, and the press release pledges their involvement in promoting Cometa Networks' hotspots. A tricky affair, since Cometa has long said that they weren't branding their hotspots, but rather pushing through resale to brands like cell operators. Publicly held companies rarely like to admit defeat as it can open them up to shareholder lawsuits and stock drops. But the press release pushes a little too hard. "Having helped stimulate the emerging hotspot industry, we believe we can best continue with the strategic intent of the SurfHere Network through this alliance with Cometa Networks," says Chris Harrington, vice president, strategy and business development for Toshiba's American operations. Out of between 8,000 and 10,000 current U.S. hotspots a handful of locations scattered around the country were Toshiba locations. They had no major initiatives. They came late to the party. They secured no chains of stores or major venues. They had, let's be honest, an almost (but not quite) zero effect on the emerging hotspot industry except to show that at the end of the day you can fire hotspots out of a gun and hope they stick....

Cometa falls from the sky

Cometa falls from the sky 05/18/2004 07:36 PM
Cometa Networks Inc. plans to announce Wednesday that it will shut down, after its investors and board of directors decided to pull the plug on the fledgling Wi-Fi hotspot service provider, a spokeswoman for the company said Tuesday.

How We Got That Cometa Story

How We Got That Cometa Story 05/22/2004 03:38 PM
For those interested in navel gazing journalism, read my account of how Wi-Fi Networking News broke the Cometa Networks story: Other sites and publications were sometimes gracious, sometimes not about assigning us credit for having been the first to report on the event. Why does this matter? Because more and more breaking news important to the people particularly interested in the subject is appearing on Web logs, not in newspapers or on media Web sites. Trying to subtract from this forum and similar fora's ability to report is an attempt to lessen the legitimacy of the work we're doing here....

Wi-Fi provider Cometa shutting down

Wi-Fi provider Cometa shutting down 05/21/2004 05:17 PM
Cometa Networks Inc., which had hoped to bring nationwide wireless access in the U.S., plans to shut down because it hasn't been able to attract enough capital to continue operations.

Cometa confirms closure

Cometa confirms closure 05/19/2004 07:24 PM

Boingo CEO Critiques Cometa

Boingo CEO Critiques Cometa 05/18/2004 06:18 PM
Boingo Wireless CEO issues statement critiquing Cometa Networks' failures: In a rare case of this sort, Sky Dayton, Boingo's founder and CEO, issued a brief statement reiterating the overall growth in revenue and use of public Wi-Fi hotspots, and critiquing Cometa's missteps. The statement notes, "Cometa had the potential to become a leading wholesale hot spot provider. The company's business plan made a lot of sense -- build lots of hot spots on the cheap and wholesale them to brands who shoulder the costs of marketing, support and billing. But they didn't execute well. They spent too much money before they needed to and demanded carriers pay high minimums for access to a network that wasn't yet built. No carrier wanted to go along with that." Dayton also noted that despite Boingo's ability to sign up networks worldwide as part of their roaming and aggregation system, that Cometa wouldn't work with them. Cometa signed a roaming deal with iPass, but reports indicate that this was more theory than an implemented reality. Dayton wrote, "Boingo had attempted to strike a roaming agreement with Cometa, but they claimed to not be interested. Even though their network wasn't much more than a promise, they were acting as if they were already the market leader. They succeeded in alienating the very people they needed to help them succeed." We've heard now from other sources that Dayton's experience was consistent with Cometa's approach to other firms....

Briefly: Cometa confirms closure

Briefly: Cometa confirms closure 05/19/2004 08:39 PM

Cometa: Seattle is a Crucible of Its
Future

Cometa: Seattle is a Crucible of Its
Future 04/21/2004 06:22 PM
Cometa Networks is one of the most talked-about hotspot builders, and the least well understood. Their CEO and their VP of sales and business development talked about the present and future dispelling some of the mystery: In an interview today with Cometa Networks' CEO Gary Weis and vice president Jeff Damir, the two executives provided context for their recent decisions, apparent setbacks, and their future planning. Cometa Networks is a hotspot infrastructure builder, signing contracts with venues to build Wi-Fi network locations that they also provide technical and customer service for, and then resell access to those locations to service providers such as aggregators (like iPass, with which they have a relationship) and cell carriers (such as AT&T Wireless). I've been one of the strongest critics of Cometa's ongoing development in part because of the initial hype (not all theirs) and the ongoing obscurity with which they have proceded. I came away from this interview quite convinced that Cometa's plans are much more in line with how the rest of the industry has matured and the needs of both venue owners with whom they must negotiate and service providers to which they have to sell their offering. If anything, Cometa and Wayport have swapped places: Wayport is aggressively building as many as 17,000 hotspots in the next three years under contract, while Cometa's Weis and Damir said they are looking for the right partners to more cautiously build out a network in which every hotspot has the value that their upstream service provider partners want. Weis joined the firm in March 2003, several months after its public launch. Weis stated at the outset when asked about the previous projections of Cometa's network growth, "I have taken a lot of time to work with the team we built to get it right, if you will, instead of shooting from the hip and talking off the cuff." Even though Cometa started serving McDonald's locations around the time Weis joined the company--as part of the publicity associated with Intel's Centrino rollout--the main thrust of their current approach to which venues to partner with began in June 2003 when the firm decided to start a few months later in Seattle. Weis said that Seattle was selected to "get us more information about what venues are really valuable, not just to our perception but to our service providers' perception." In September, they had 100 locations...

Cometa Networks to halt operations

Cometa Networks to halt operations 05/18/2004 04:12 PM
The Wi-Fi pioneer is set to announce Wednesday that it is suspending its service, as the company has been unable to raise additional capital to fund expansion nationwide.

Wireless Internet Co. Cometa Closes

Wireless Internet Co. Cometa Closes 05/19/2004 05:43 PM
AP via Baltimore Sun May 19 2004 9:25PM GMT

Cometa Says Will Shut Down Wi-Fi
Business (Reuters)

Cometa Says Will Shut Down Wi-Fi
Business (Reuters) 05/19/2004 10:35 AM
Reuters - Cometa Networks, a joint venture set up to wholesale high-speed wireless Internet access, said on Wednesday it would close because of a lack of funding.

Cometa Networks suspending operations

Cometa Networks suspending operations 05/18/2004 06:19 PM
ZDNet May 18 2004 9:09PM GMT

Wireless Internet Co. Cometa Closes (AP)

Wireless Internet Co. Cometa Closes (AP) 05/19/2004 04:15 PM
AP - A company that equips coffee shops and bookstores for wireless Internet offerings is shutting down, casting doubt on a business niche many analysts had considered a sure bet.

Stardust caza las partículas del cometa
Wild 2

Stardust caza las partículas del cometa
Wild 2 01/03/2004 03:27 PM

Cometa crash bursts hotspot bubble?

Cometa crash bursts hotspot bubble? 05/21/2004 05:22 AM
Analysis Public WLANs 'overhyped'

Cometa Ends Its Short, Over Hyped, Life

Cometa Ends Its Short, Over Hyped, Life 05/18/2004 06:16 PM
The fine folks over at Wi-Fi Networking News have found out that Cometa is shutting down tomorrow. Cometa, of course, was the massively overhyped me-too play in the WiFi space that didn't make sense to a lot of people since the day it was announced. When Cometa first launched we were incredibly underwhelmed - noting that they had nothing special to distinguish themselves from every failed offering, other than their three big name backers (Intel, AT&T and IBM). However, in the early days the company focused a lot more on talking about its pedigree than talking about how they actually planned to come up with a business model that worked. In many ways, the company imitated Metricom, the failed provider of Ricochet broadband wireless. They picked a market with some hype, but could never figure out what the real business model would be. When people started questioning their announced plans to install 15,000 WiFi hotspots by 2005, the company insisted they would make it. Turns out, by 2005 Cometa won't have any hotspots. We have nothing against companies trying to get more WiFi out there, but just because you get money from Intel, AT&T and IBM, it doesn't mean the rules of business don't apply to you.
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