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Carriers and bankers not liking Nokia’s chances against iPhone/Android. Is it over? (Poll)
9to5mac.com
Although Nokia may or may not be having some success in the US with its heavy Lumia 900 marketing campaign with AT&T, it doesn’t appear that it is making any headway in its home turf of Europe. AT&T will give you $50 to take one of its Lumia 900 phones...
Analysts on RIM Q1 earnings: Expect a bloodbath
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Things haven’t been going well for RIM and they likely won’t get any better when Thursday’s earnings report comes out. All Things D has talked with a couple of high-profile analysts and they both say the same thing: RIM is screwed. Jefferies analyst Peter Misek, for one, says that RIM’s near-term...
Does RIM's BlackBerry have a future? What the analysts say about its results
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'Like watching a puppy die', says one analyst, as smartphone maker delays new software and sees handset sales plummetResearch in Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry handsets and PlayBook tablet, announced financial results which were well below analysts' expectations. Excluding impairment charges, the latest loss was 37 cents per...
RIM (RIP?) is in its death spiral
9to5mac.com
There is no way to sugarcoat today’s announcement from once great Blackberry maker, RIM. They are, after years of putting their heads in the sand, finally taking drastic measures to change course including getting rid of former Co-CEO and current board member Jim Balsillie as well as their their CTO and...
RIM shot: Can BlackBerry regain its corporate ripeness?
arstechnica.com
It's not dead yet—RIM is showing signs of reversing its dramatic 2012 dive. RIM In case you didn't catch it last week, the news that Research In Motion is in a "death spiral" has been greatly exaggerated. After the company announced its latest financial results, some analysts have changed...
Apple and Taxes: What the New York Times Missed
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I have never seen the exterior of the offices of Braeburn Capital in Reno, Nevada, and so I have The New York Times to thank for the photograph of its offices that that accompanied its Sunday front-page story on how Apple avoids paying certain taxes, among them California state corporate...
Engadget Mobile Podcast 145 - 07.09.2012
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A sub-90-minute Engadget Mobile Podcast is a rare breed, and a sub-90-minute Engadget Mobile Podcast with Joseph Volpe is a sighting of albino liger proportions. Take in this breath of fresh air, tinged with the sweet confectionist scents coming down from the Mountain View and the smell of money...
RIM delays BlackBerry 10 until 2013, cuts 5,000 jobs
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The death spiral of Research in Motion appeared to get even more steep as the device maker reported a huge miss Thursday in its quarterly earnings and reported that its savior platform, BlackBerry 10, will not be ready until next year. The new operating system was supposed to debut at...
Jaron Lanier And Gobbledygook Economics
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Okay, okay. So many people have been submitting Jaron Lanier's latest Wired opinion piece, which is really an excerpt from his new book, Who Owns the Future?, that clearly it needs some sort of response. As you may recall, Lanier trades on his cred as an early-digerati-turned-contrarian to sell lots...
Next question after Scott Thompson's departure: what is Yahoo actually for?
www.guardian.co.uk
Since the advent of Google, and then Twitter and Facebook, the company hasn't had a unique selling pointAs the furore swirled around Scott Thompson a few days ago, the previous Yahoo chief executive, Carol Bartz, told some of the media: "You know, I actually do have a computer science degree."...
Inside ShowStoppers at CTIA – The show within the show
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This post is part of a series sponsored by Internet Explorer 9. Learn more here. Missed the tweet and just now seeing this post? Pin this page in IE9 to see all of the content as it happens. I’ve been attending trade shows from this blogger perspective ever since...
New telescope array reveals death spiral of old star
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Gas shed by the dying star R Sculptoris forms a lumpy spherical shell with a strange spiral interior. Such a pattern indicates the presence of a hidden companion star. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) As stars like our Sun die, they swell to a huge size and shed much of the gas...
Thorsten Heins talks BB10 delay, promises to 'reinstall faith in RIM' in January with full touch device
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Despite all the doom and gloom at RIM of late, CEO Thorsten Heins is a long, long way from throwing in the towel. After denying a "death spiral" and responding directly to Globe & Mail reader questions, he sat down with CIO's Al Sacco to talk about what he...
Thorsten Heins talks BB10 delay, promises to 'reinstall faith in RIM' in January with full touch device
Why Amazon Is Borrowing $3 Billion (AMZN)
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Amazon is seeking to raise $3 billion in debt, the Wall Street Journal reports. And why not? It's paying 0.38 to 0.93 percentage points more than comparable Treasury rates in interest for the bonds, which mature in 3, 5, or 10 years. As of the last quarter, Amazon had $5.25...
Delusional RIM CEO Says 'There's Nothing Wrong With The Company As It Exists Right Now' (RIMM)
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Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins says, "there's nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now." He was speaking on CBC radio, and his comments were picked up by the Canadian Press. He also said RIM is not in a "death spiral." Either he's completely out of touch,...
Chart: The death spiral of solar bankruptcies (& counting)
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The solar death spiral has been long and ugly. Over the past year, there have been over a dozen stalwarts and startups that have headed to bankruptcy court. Two companies even filed for bankruptcies in this week alone: manufacturer Q-Cells, which was the worlds largest solar cell maker in 2008...
RIP, Nokia (1965 – 2014)
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Nokia is entering its death spiral. It’s running out of cash, it’s running out of time, and it’s running out of options. A year ago, incoming CEO Stephen Elop made a brave decision to break with the past. He ditched Nokia’s Symbian operating system and decided to focus all...
Zyngapocalypse Now (And What Comes Next?)
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Significant losses, declining ARPUs, failing mobile acquisitions and shareholder selloffs. A stock price down to $3.01. A product catalog repeating previous mistakes. Media coverage ranging from the mystified to “I told you so”. A vague promise to get into gambling. Last week was miserable for Zynga and, as the bellwether of social games,...
The Royal Nokia Screw-Up That Shouldn't Have Been
pandodaily.com
Anyone who cares about fostering a dynamic, competitive tech industry should be rooting for Nokia. Even if you’re not as gaga for Windows Phone as I am—I think it’s the best-designed mobile OS on the market—you’ve got to concede that the Finnish phonemaker has the capacity to be a...
Scoble on Apple-Samsung: "this is actually a sizable win for Samsung"
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Since when is getting sued, losing, and being forced to pay over a billion dollars in hard-earned cashed a … win? Author, blogger extraordinaire, and all-round social media rockstar Robert Scoble thinks that Samsung actually won the patent case of the decade — the one in which the Korean company...
RIM CEO Welcomes Critics to Happy-Fun Rainbow Land
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Despite a slew of evidence to the contrary — plunging market share , rapidly deteriorating fundamentals , mass layoffs, and a stock that’s falling like a knife, Research In Motion’s got bright future ahead of it. This according to CEO Thorsten Heins, who says RIM is headed for a...
RIM's Thorsten Heins denies company's 'death spiral,' predicts successful transition to BlackBerry 10
www.engadget.com
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has the unenviable task of, well, being the CEO of RIM. Still, in spite of some gloomy numbers, the exec thinks the company is on the right track. Heins told CBC Radio that, since taking over, the company has been implementing changes that are helping...
RIM's Thorsten Heins denies company's 'death spiral,' predicts successful transition to BlackBerry 10
RIM CEO denies company is ‘in a death spiral’
www.bgr.com
5,000 layoffs? Delays of major products? Quarterly losses totaling more than $500 million? “‘Tis but a scratch,” says RIM CEO Thorsten Heins. Canada.com reports that Heins gave his company a much-needed pep talk on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview on Tuesday morning, and said that “there’s nothing wrong with...
From bad to worse: jury directs RIM to pay $147.2M
gigaom.com
The hits just keep coming for Research in Motion Ltd. Late Friday, a San Francisco federal court jury ordered the struggling smart-phone maker to pay $147.2 million to Mformation Technologies Inc., after it came out on the losing end of patent litigation. Jurors determined that RIM’s Blackberry Enterprise Server application,...
Engadget Podcast 300 - 07.06.2012
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300 episodes ago, the Engadget Podcast existed, before podcasts themselves really even existed, amongst Treos, StarTACs, and O.G. RAZRs. This one is hanging out with Qs, 7s, and Beans. What hardware will 600 be accompanied by? Where on the time-space continuum will the hosts record from? Will their cortical...
RIM CEO: 'We're not in a death spiral'
news.cnet.com
Despite mounting financial and product problems, CEO Thorsten Heins says there's nothing wrong with the company. [Read more]...
RIM chief denies Blackberry maker is in a 'death spiral'
www.guardian.co.uk
Thorsten Heins defends company less than a week after it revealed an operating loss of $643mCrisis, what crisis? Thorsten Heins, chief executive of BlackBerry maker RIM, told a Canadian radio interviewer that he doesn't believe the company is in a "death spiral" and that "there's nothing wrong with the company...
RIM bets on quality, not speed, as it fends off death spiral
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In an interview with CNET, a RIM executive defends the company's decision to delay the release of BlackBerry 10. But will it arrive too late? [Read more]...
Anatomy of an Internet Death Spiral
www.pcworld.com
Analysis: Be forewarned, Facebook: When tech companies screw customers, tech companies die. See Zynga and Digg for proof....
Hopeful, or clueless? RIM CEO says there’s “nothing wrong with the company”
venturebeat.com
While anyone with half a brain can see that the BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is in trouble, the company’s new CEO Thorsten Heins doesn’t agree. “There’s nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now,” Heins told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp in a radio interview this morning...
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