The BlackBerry is under attack and RIM’s giving the fight everything it’s got Last month, a posting appeared on the popular Business Insider blog that no doubt filled some Research In Motion executives with a sense of dread. Under the heading “How I Ended My Affair With BlackBerry And Eloped With The iPhone,” former tech analyst Henry Blodget described how he somewhat reluctantly went out and bought Apple’s latest “it” phone, the new iPhone 3G S, after 12 years of loyal BlackBerry service. Business users have long been skeptical of the sleek iPhone and its touchscreen display, which can make emailing and typing a chore, but Blodget wasn’t disappointed with his switch. “It’s nice here in Apple world,” he concluded. |
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Despite experts' gloomy predictions, tech darling tops list; Potash Corp. makes grade at No. 10 The technology industry is forever focused on tomorrow – so much so that it's easy to lose sight of what's happening today. It's a conundrum familiar to Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the popular BlackBerry. The Waterloo-based company is seemingly always at risk of being toppled by the latest so-called "BlackBerry killer" in the minds of some analysts and industry observers. |
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Whatever the merits of subsidizing Nortel’s past research, blocking the Ericsson sale won’t get the money back  Technology and nationalism are heady enough intoxicants on their own; combined, the high is very nearly fatal. Still, it’s rare that you get quite such a frenzy of nonsense as has attended Nortel’s bankruptcy proceedings. It’s not uncommon for those who inhale the techno-nationalist fumes to forget some basic principle of economics or other. But in this case they can’t even seem to get their facts straight.
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The U.S. patent office gets nearly 500 million applications every year. Figuring out who owns what, typically in court, has morphed into a business worth $10-billion (U.S.) a year in the United States, where the global patent war is mainly being waged. This summer's public feud between Research In Motion and Ericsson over the carcass of Nortel Networks, Canada's debased networking giant, underscores a new reality in the technology business. |
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'This iPod thing will never catch on'--and 9 more unbelievable (in hindsight) missed tech opportunities. Some of the biggest high-tech deals never happened. Some of the most promising products and services never came to be. Why? Because the people and companies involved didn't realize what they were letting slip through their fingers, or they simply couldn't foresee what would happen afterward. |
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Shares of Align Technology Inc. jumped Monday after the dental products company settled a patent infringement lawsuit regarding its Invisalign teeth-straightening system. Align agreed to issue $77 million in stock to Danaher Corp., and pay about $13 million to Danaher's Ormco business. |
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Technology stocks came to life in early trading Tuesday as many sector leaders rose in advance of the latest earnings report from computing giant Hewlett-Packard Co., due after the market close. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index /quotes/comstock/10y!i:comp (COMP 1,956, +24.72, +1.28%) rose 12 points to 1942, |
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