Highlights included Martin Scorsese getting passed over for the best director award -- again. But the Academy didn’t let an unresolved statutory rape charge get in the way of awarding the prize to Roman Polanski for his direction of The Pianist. A good flick, but the folks in NYC were pulling for our boy, Marty...
But who cares about all these glamorous and overpaid movie stars anyway? Let’s get to the real news: Who has been hired and fired recently in telecom? Now that’s interesting.
In an interview after the story appeared, Kennedy said his continuing employment with LuxN was news to him.
“If I’m a consultant, then all I am missing is a paycheck,” he said. “I haven’t had any business contact with them since I left in December.”
LuxN has tried to clarify its position and is calling the whole thing a misunderstanding.
“I apologize for what I said last week,” says Paul Zalloua, vice president of marketing for LuxN. “I did not mean to imply that Jim Kennedy was still working as a consultant for us. I take full responsibility for that. I think you misunderstood me.”
The bio for Trisha Mount, former VP of finance and CFO, was still on the company Website as of Monday morning. Mount left the company back in September 2002. Just another oversight?
“That was a stupid mistake,” admits Zalloua. “I take responsibility for that.”
Kennedy says that to the best of his knowledge, there are no direct sales people left at the company. David Wetzel, who was working the SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) account, left in mid-February. Others left before the end of last year. Kennedy says the company only has technical field support representatives and no real sales team.
Zalloua takes issue with this claim.
“I don’t know why ex-colleagues have to trash their former company,” he says. “They should be focusing on their new jobs."
"They want to provide as much time as possible to secure the new round of financing." Failing that, Waldern says, the directors might consider selling DigiLens's intellectual property.
Meanwhile, 11 ex-employees are telling the California Labor Commission that DigiLens never paid up on promised wages. They claim they signed contracts promising them "bonuses," then got laid off without receiving a cent. They're hoping to take the case through arbitration rather than go to court.
“This latest round of layoffs is unfortunate,” says Beth Mayer, a spokesperson for the company. “But Narad, like many in this market, is transitioning from a technology creator to focusing more on customer deployments and field trials.”
The company has recently announced a deal with StarCat Cable Network in Japan (see Narad Trials in Japan, Shuffles Execs).
Here's a summary of other employment news from the past several days:
- Dell Guy Named Sheer Chairman
- Tellabs Names Two to Board
- Pentagon Pal Perle Gets GX Paycheck
- IPass Gets Global Sales VP
- Charter Names SVP of Engineering
- Fortinet VP Supports Customers
- Riverstone Appoints Sales VP
- Sprint Gets a 'Restricted' CEO
- Sprint Names Forsee CEO
- Judge: Forsee Can Join Sprint
— Marguerite Reardon and Craig Matsumoto, Senior Editors, Light Reading
www.lightreading.com
Boy...you folks can really turn on a dime when you want to...