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...many of the Crimson skaters. Assistant captain Ryan Lannon and classmate Rob Flynn honed their skills under the guidance of the U.S. National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Mich., as did sophomores Steve Mandes and Ryan Maki and recent graduates Kenny Smith ’04 and Dennis Packard...
...Spokane to meet the people behind its audacious experiment, principally a guy named Don Stalter, CEO of Vivato, the high-tech start-up that supplies the technology to make it possible. Stalter didn't found the company; it began with a Hewlett-Packard engineer named Skip Crilly, who lived in the hills outside Spokane and couldn't get anybody to run a high-speed line to his house. Like any good engineer, he thought outside the box: maybe he could get the speed without the wiring. The standard wireless Internet technology, wi-fi, was cheap and fast, but it worked...
...they had to do was figure out what to do with it. Hewlett-Packard wasn't interested in the project, so Crilly and Conley went out and started their own company. They raised around $65 million in venture capital, most of which they burned through pretty quickly. They sold a few hundred Little Joes, but not nearly as many as they needed to sell. Stalter came on board in October of last year. A fast-talking veteran of the high-tech scene, he specializes in taking over companies that have lost their way. Stalter's job: to figure out what...
...Tyler [Kolarik] ’04, Kenny [Smith] ’04 and Dennis Packard ’04 are recent grads who are dealing with that,” Lannon said. “It’s affected those guys somewhat significantly and it’s really unfortunate that they graduated when they did. It’s just bad timing—it’s something hockey players haven’t had to deal with for a while...
...launch. Microsoft jumped in last week with the U.S. debut of MSN Music, which is compatible with a range of players (iTunes files only work on the iPod). Hewlett-Packard has begun selling its own Apple-authorized iPod. And Asia may soon get its first regional digital-music store; Singapore's Soundbuzz, co-founded by a former MTV Asia exec, plans to move into Hong Kong, India and Taiwan by year's end. Have the music biz's blues turned to blue sky? Many think so. Downloading "will be as big as the cell-phone market," predicts Sim Wong...