I’ve been traveling over the last couple of weeks. So that’s been keeping me from posting. I’ll catch up on that in one post. Here’s the highlights of the week:
- Yahoo made the news by laying off 600 people. I’m guessing that Carol Bartz’s efforts to turn the company around aren’t making a dent. Speaking of Yahoo, some of their old product lines are about to die. So products like AltaVista, Yahoo! Buzz, and shockingly Delicious are going bye bye. I guess that they’re not helping them make money either.
- Rogers hit the news for all the wrong reasons this week. Word on the street is that their traffic management is a bit overly aggressive by going after non peer to peer applications. Rogers says it’s an accident and they’re trying to fix it. But this has been going on for a couple of months now with no resolution in sight which really damages their street cred. Really Rogers. You need to fix this quick and then take some of that advice that I offered a while back as this really isn’t helping your cause.
- The Nokia vs Apple patent lawsuit circus continues with a new lawsuit being filed by Nokia against Apple covering 13 patents. Nokia specifically cites the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch as violating its patents. The lawyers are really going to clean up with all these lawsuits back and forth.
- Remember when Novell got sold to Attachmate a while back and I said at the time that the real story was in a bunch of patents that were sold to a Microsoft backed group for $450 million? According to this story, the rest of the members of that group are Apple, Oracle, and EMC. None of them are lightweights. I wonder what these companies will do with all of that IP?
That’s it for now. I promise I’ll be back on the rails next week. In the meantime, I’m off to see Tron:Legacy. If that’s not your speed, another movie computer types is The Social Network. That’s a great movie that has some Oscar buzz around it.
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Back On The Grid With The News Of The Week
I’ve been traveling over the last couple of weeks. So that’s been keeping me from posting. I’ll catch up on that in one post. Here’s the highlights of the week:
That’s it for now. I promise I’ll be back on the rails next week. In the meantime, I’m off to see Tron:Legacy. If that’s not your speed, another movie computer types is The Social Network. That’s a great movie that has some Oscar buzz around it.
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