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Archive for November, 2005

Canadian Blog Awards

Hey, I almost forgot that round one voting is taking place today
for the Canadian Blog Awards. I'm nominated in two categories - Best
Business Blog and Best Media Blog. If you want to vote, click here.
 

Bad News for RIM

It is not a good day for Research in Motion after it was spanked by a U.S. judge,
who said a $450-million settlement reached earlier this year between
RIM and NTP over a patent dispute can't be enforced. U.S. District
court judge James Spencer will now decide whether and/or how to impose
an injunction that could prevent RIM from [...]

What's Craiglist Really Worth

Everyone loves Craigslist
- the Web's biggest classified service. What makes Craigslist unique is
its quasi-public service approach to business. The only fees it charges
are for listing jobs in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.
Everything else is free. It seems like a strange approach given how
more revenue it could generate by charging for other things such as
aparment [...]

Nortel Management Shuffle Underway

It looks like Mike Zafirovski is wasting no time revamping Nortel's
management team. According to UBS Securities, the executives shown the door recently include
chief research officer Brian McFadden and Sue Spradley, president of
global services and operations. Both McFadden and Spradley were
long-time Nortel executives who had been shuffled around recently. They
were also among the group of senior [...]

Cringely's Big Google Thoughts

Robert Cringely
is such a big, high-level thinker, my brain hurts when I read his
columns - and I mean this in a good way because he raises ideas that
force you to pause to recalibrate your own thinking. Take, for
example, his column on Google Cubes, which comes on the heels of his Google data-centre in a shipping container [...]

Wired Magazine: Barometer of Industry Health?

I started to leaf through the latest Wired magazine
last night when it suddenly struck me it was a nice, hefty,
advertising-packed 296 pages. This took me back to the height of the dot-com
boom when magazines such as Wired, Business 2.0 (which went bi-weekly), Fast Company and the Industry Standard
regularly published heavy, back-busting issues. In fact, they were so
big, I [...]

Google-Tivo?

With Tivo prepared to offer searchable, downloadable advertising, I wonder if it enhances or detracts from a Google acquisition? In a previous post,
I thought a Tivo-Google marriage made sense because it would offer
Google an easy and relatively inexpensive way to establish a foothold
in the television market. Now, I'm not so sure. If Google is interested
in [...]

Skype's eBay-ization Continues

How long do you think Nikas Zennstrom and Janus Friis will be sticking around Skype? It probably won't be long given how Skype's management team is being eBay-ized. The newest Skype senior executive is Henry Gomez, who has been appointed general manager of Skype North America. Gomez had been eBay's senior vice-president of corporate communications and [...]

RIM Loves Halifax

Has Halifax becomes the hot, new high-tech centre in North America? The
city certainly has to be feeling pretty good after convincing Research
in Motion Ltd. to create 1,200 jobs there over the next five years.
These aren't low-paying call-centre jobs but “technical service”
positions where people handle problems that the carriers' customer reps
can't resolve. The Halifax facility will [...]

Blogging for Fame and Fortune

So why do you blog? For fame? To have a creative and public outlet? To make the world a better place like my friend Tyler Hamilton? Vanity? Or, perhaps, for fortune? The New York Times
put the spotlight on the money yesterday with a story looking at how
advertising and market dollars - estimated at $50 million [...]

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