Subject:  Former MS execs invest in wireless firm (Bedard)..
Date:     Fri, 10 Mar 2000 134450 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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........Here - our **archives** webmaster has found something about the
future of the "Blue World."  I wonder what these guys would do - if
someone were to say to them:  "You know ... we may have to call a halt 
to future wireless growth ... the environment is becoming saturated
("Blue") with too much electromagnetic radiation for the public
health....???"

Cheerio......  (Thanks, Robert -- and GOOD job on the Feb archives....!!)

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 07:44:26 -0800
From: Robert Bedard 
To: rbeavers@mail.llion.org, libbykelley@ccwti.org
Subject: Former MS execs invest in wireless firm

Former MS execs invest in wireless firm

Ignition is a holding company that will create
and fund startups working on wireless
Internet products.



By Margaret Kane, ZDNet News
March 9, 2000 7:40 AM PT



A group of former Microsoft Corp. and McCaw
Cellular executives has formed a company that will
invest in wireless firms.

Ignition Corp. has raised $140 million from a team of
strategic investors including Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq:
QCOM), Softbank Venture Capital and Madrona Venture
Group.

Ignition is a holding company that will create and fund startups working
on wireless Internet products.

The company, based in Bellevue, Wash., will be run by Brad Silverberg, a
former Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) vice president who oversaw that
company’s Internet development.

Other Microsoft executives on board include Jon Anderson, John Ludwig,
Cameron Myhrvold, Satoshi Nakajima, Chris Peters, Jonathan Roberts and
Rich Tong. The company has also signed up Steve Hooper from McCaw
Cellular and Kathy Iskra from Nextlink.

"Like the tidal waves before it, the wireless Internet will
fundamentally change the way we live, work and communicate," Silverberg
said. "We're eager to work with entrepreneurs to develop great software
and solutions that will power the wireless Internet revolution."

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2458205,00.html

rob't
Robert Bedard
WaveGuide
http://www.wave-guide.org/





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