Fortele
After Metabox, Haynie did a number of consulting gigs. Some paid well, some didn't pay, and none of it was terribly exciting. In 2002 he got back together with Andy Finkel and two other ex-Commodore people, Robert Russell and Neil Harris, to form Fortele, Inc. The plan here was whole house media networking. Their approach was to make every audio/video appliance just a node on the network, make the system know the user and learn his habits, etc. But despite the technology working well, the business part failed even before the dog and pony show had been finished.
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