UK Technology Startups

My colleague Melanie Reynolds recently spoke to a California-based start-up that appears to be flying. The firm is shipping a million chips a month and only founded has recently as 2004.

Richard Irving, a partner at venture capital firm Pond Venture Partners, says the walls are coming down in the US to allow any device onto carrier's networks

Unlike some European wireless carriers, their US counterparts have always ensured that voice and data traffic carried on their networks came only from approved devices: the so-called walled garden. That way they control which applications and services are offered.

Always hiding behind the issue of network quality, carriers have steadfastly refused to compromise. After all, if they let any traffic on, people could start streaming whole movies to each other and crash the network. Verizon's recent promise to open their network seems to be a huge change.

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has named SiBeam as its “Fabless Start-Up to Watch for 2007”.