2 posts and columns on Interead

Insider Pushes Ma Bell Beyond Just Phones

in News on December 16, 2009 at 9:35 am PT

Glenn Lurie spends most days thinking up ways to put cellphone chips everywhere but phones. Picture frames, computers, even children’s toys. He dreams up new, untested calling-rate plans and develops strategies to put stodgy AT&T atop new and unproven markets.

Kindle Rival Cool-er to Hit QVC

in News on October 7, 2009 at 5:20 pm PT

The e-reader is going home-shopping for the holidays. Shortly after Amazon cut the price of its Kindle e-reader, Interead, maker of the rival Cool-er device, said it has signed on with home-shopping network QVC to help it launch Cool-er in the U.S.