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Monthly Archives: November 2005
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 [...]
Posted in Wireless/Research in Motion 1 Comment
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 [...]
Posted in Advertising/Marketing, Web-based Services 3 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Main Page, Nortel Networks 5 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Google 2 Comments






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