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Is RIM Blackberry the New Novell?
Posted by Thom in Business, IT, Technology on 2010/01/18
The big red Novell N used to control the enterprise market.
In 2010 – Blackberry is to Apple as Novell was to Microsoft circa 1994. As hard as it may be to remember back that far, Microsoft was once an upstart that was derided for not being substantial enough to effectively serve business server and networking needs – suitable only for stand-alone PCs. Novell was seen as the proper choice for enterprises looking to network resources together. Blackberry is in the same position today with regards to email-enabled smartphones and making many of the same mistakes that Novell made.
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Updates – Revisiting Past Topics
Posted by Thom in Business, Technology on 2009/11/08
Update columns are the crutch of columnists, both on and off-line.
A column of updates is every columnist’s favorite crutch when ideas aren’t flowing and blogging is no different. But of course, I am doing an update column because I think that some of the previous topics I’ve written about earlier are worth updating, not because I’m suffering from a lack of ideas.
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AT&T’s Missed Opportunity
Posted by Thom in Business, Technology on 2009/09/04
It's awesome, but is it cool enough to tolerate a bad cellphone carrier?
iPhone, iPhone, iPhone – some days that’s all I seem to hear. But underneath all the chatter I also hear this ongoing thread: “I wish Verizon had the iPhone because AT&T’s network is just plain awful” or “I want an iPhone but not with AT&T” or in a boon for Blackberry “I wanted an iPhone but AT&T’s network blows, so I got a Blackberry on Verizon”.
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