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Filed under: Competitive strategy, Technology

This week, EarthLink Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK) announced its Q4 results. There was a loss of $9.5 million, or $0.08 per share, which included a $31.1 million write-off from its wi-fi assets.

And, yes, now the company wants to offload the segment. So what does this mean for EarthLink, as well as the space?

Well, I had a chance to interview Craig Settles, who is the author of After Muni Wireless Comes to Town. According to him:

Probably the most common question this sale generates is, why would anyone want to purchase the business? It ultimately depends on how much is the asking price, and what actual assets come with the deal. If you look back at Metricom, who marketed Ricochet, they didn’t get a whole lot when they sold their business out of bankruptcy court.

Assuming there’s something worth buying, what company steps up to the plate comes down to who has the right perspective on this thing. There are a lot of local governments assessing the business case for building a network that primarily facilitates mobile government worker and asset management. If a small service provider or a company with an active hotspot business can see a way to repackage and remarket the EarthLink business to meet this need, they’re a logical buyer.

I think EarthLink’s position that there’s no money to be made with muni wireless is true, to a point, if the only thing you want to do is sell a general consumer service. And I think that anyone who buys this business with that in mind is in for trouble. There were three successive buyers of Ricochet post-bankruptcy, and I don’t believe any one of them had a winning business strategy when they plunked their checks down. But selling muni wireless as a local government resource, this can be the ticket to success.

Tom Taulli is the author of various books, including The Complete M&A Handbook and The Edgar Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements. He also operates DealProfiles.com.

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Filed under: Competitive strategy, Technology

This week, EarthLink Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK) announced its Q4 results. There was a loss of $9.5 million, or $0.08 per share, which included a $31.1 million write-off from its wi-fi assets.

And, yes, now the company wants to offload the segment. So what does this mean for EarthLink, as well as the space?

Well, I had a opportunity to interview Craig Settles, who is the author of After Muni Wireless Comes to Town. According to him:

Probably the most common question this sale generates is, why would anyone want to purchase the business? It ultimately depends on how much is the asking price, and what actual assets come with the deal. If you look back at Metricom, who marketed Ricochet, they didn’t get a whole lot when they sold their business out of bankruptcy court.

Assuming there’s something worth buying, what company steps up to the plate comes down to who has the right perspective on this thing. There are a lot of local governments assessing the business case for building a network that primarily facilitates mobile government worker and asset management. If a small service provider or a company with an active hotspot business can see a way to repackage and remarket the EarthLink business to meet this need, they’re a logical buyer.

I think EarthLink’s position that there’s no money to be made with muni wireless is true, to a point, if the only thing you want to do is sell a general consumer service. And I think that anyone who purchases this business with that in mind is in for trouble. There were three successive buyers of Ricochet post-bankruptcy, and I don’t believe any one of them had a winning business strategy when they plunked their checks down. But selling muni wireless as a local government resource, this can be the ticket to success.

Tom Taulli is the author of various books, including The Complete M&A Handbook and The Edgar On the internet Guide to Decoding Financial Statements. He also operates DealProfiles.com.

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Filed under: Industry, Competitive strategy, Ford Motor (F), General Motors (GM), Toyota Motor Corp. (TM)

Chrysler has now decided to cut up to half of its brands and a third of its dealers. According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), “over the next three years or so, the now closely held automaker plans to drop as many as half of the approximately 30 vehicles it now produces.”

The decision could cut Chrysler’s sales for some time, so the auto company is betting that savings can more than offset that. If the move works, it will be a template for other U.S. vehicle companies. If its does not, it may go down in business history as one of the most idiotic moves ever made in the industry.

If there’s early evidence that Chrysler has gone the right direction, it will certainly catch the eyes of management at Ford (NYSE: F) and General Motors (NYSE: GM). Chrysler has about 12% of the U.S. vehicle market to Ford’s 15% and GM’s 25%. GM, in particular, has dozens of brands, some of which are certainly money-losers.

The question becomes whether U.S. automobile companies can afford to shrink. Toyota (NYSE: TM) can keep a massive brand portfolio here and each sale that domestic automobile companies give up by dropping a brand could go Toyota and its Japanese rivals. Recovering from that probably won’t be possible.

Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.

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An anonymous reader writes “I’m a competent geek running a one-man-show for a small business. I do everything IT in this company; servers, email, desktop support, managing Ethernet switches, cash registers, inventory database, and the company website. My boss has asked me to ‘punch up’ the website to make it more appealing. Although I can hold my own with HTML, PHP and a couple SQL products, graphic design isn’t one of my strengths. I’m looking for some advice on how to improve the site without making it overstimulating for the webophobic. It’s also important that it conform to ADA accessibility guidelines. In particular, I’m looking for books or tutorial websites that teach the basics of good graphic design — how to make it more appealing without losing the capability to communicate effectively. Also, I would appreciate recommendations for tools to use to make this more efficient (Windows and Linux are both OK).”

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An anonymous reader writes “I’m a competent geek running a one-man-show for a small business. I do everything IT in this company; servers, email, desktop support, managing Ethernet switches, cash registers, inventory database, and the company website. My boss has asked me to ‘punch up’ the website to make it more appealing. Although I can hold my own with HTML, PHP and a couple SQL products, graphic design isn’t one of my strengths. I’m looking for some advice on how to improve the site without making it overstimulating for the webophobic. It’s also important that it conform to ADA accessibility guidelines. In particular, I’m looking for books or tutorial websites that teach the basics of good graphic design — how to make it more appealing without losing the capability to communicate effectively. Also, I would appreciate recommendations for tools to use to make this more efficient (Windows and Linux are both OK).”

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snake-oil-security writes “Last fall Amit Klein found a serious weakness in the OpenBSD PRNG (pseudo-random number generator), which grants an attacker to predict the next DNS transaction ID. The same flavor of this PRNG is used in other places like the OpenBSD kernel network stack. Several other BSD operating systems copied the OpenBSD code for their own PRNG, so they’re vulnerable too; Apple’s Darwin-based Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, and also NetBSD, FreeBSD, and DragonFlyBSD. All the above-mentioned vendors were contacted in November 2007. FreeBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD committed a fix to their respective source code trees, Apple refused to provide any schedule for a fix, but OpenBSD decided not to mend it. OpenBSD’s coordinator stated, in an email, that OpenBSD is completely uninterested in the problem and that the problem is absolutely irrelevant in the real world. This was highlighted recently when Amit Klein posted to the BugTraq list.”

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Angus McKraken brings us a Washington Post story about how travelers are seeking more well-defined policies and rules about the search and seizure of electronic devices by U.S. Customs officials. The EFF has already taken legal action over similar concerns. We recently discussed the related issue of requiring people to disclose their passwords in order to search their private data. From the Post: “Maria Udy, a marketing executive with a global travel management firm in Bethesda, said her company laptop was seized by a federal agent as she was flying from Dulles International Airport to London in December 2006. Udy, a British citizen, stated the agent told her he had ‘a security concern’ with her. ‘I was basically given the option of handing over my laptop or not getting on that flight,’ she said. ‘I was assured that my laptop would be given back to me in 10 or 15 days,’ said Udy, who continues to fly into and out of the United Says. She stated the federal agent copied her log-on and password, and asked her to show him a current document and how she gains access to Microsoft Word. She was asked to pull up her e-mail but couldn’t because of lack of World wide web access. With ACTE’s help, she pressed for relief. More than a year later, Udy has received neither her laptop nor an explanation.”

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The Knife writes “Amazon secretly canceled orders for a big jazz CD set after realizing that it had mis-priced the item at $31 instead of its MSRP of $499. At first, inventory shortages caused the on the internet merchant to string customers along for over a month after they placed their orders. But when Amazon realized that the box set was under-priced by $470, it simply erased all records of customers’ order in their account history. No emails were sent to customers informing them of the price change or of the order cancellation. Probably because it violates Amazon’s highly publicized price guarantee policy. A customer who called to complain and request the CD set at the $31 price was given a $20 discount off of his next Amazon order.” A caveat: there is no external confirmation that Amazon did what’s claimed here.

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Filed under: Pic, Web services, Microsoft, Yahoo!

When Yahoo! snubbed Microsoft’s first buyout offer last week, no one was happier than the 3,000-plus members of a Flickr pic pool called “Microsoft: Keep Your Evil Grubby Hands Off Of Our Flickr.” The group has posted a collection of funny images that protest Microsoft’s attempts to buy Yahoo!, which currently owns Flickr. Their pics range from clever to cynical to downright obscene.

Some of the running themes in the pool include mashups of the Microsoft and Flickr logos, parody Windows dialog boxes, and photos of Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates gloating about their impending domination of the photo-sharing market. It’s simple to see from the pics that a lot of users aren’t happy, but we also found some serious discussion in the comments about how Microsoft might change Flickr.

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