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RoB Magazine declares victory on the Smartphone Plains of Abraham
RoB Magazine has declared Apple the victor over Research in Motion in a presumed battle between Cupertino and Waterloo for the smartphone Plains of Abraham. … I understand that for an investor, the likely more profitable performer in the short term is an important determination; but to pronounce the industry a zero-sum game is foolish. That said, the author raises an important point that if followed in combination with RIM’s existing advantages could shoot it back up to leading Apple around a marketplace of its own design. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Communications, Information Technology
Tagged Apple, blackberry, Business, Communications, Information Technology, iPhone, Research in Motion, Torch
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Research in Motion’s Opportunity to Promulgate Freedom
Several countries, none of which is a finalist in the Freedom to the People sweepstakes, are considering blackballing the BlackBerry for being too secure… The better route for BlackBerry is to work with these governments to reshape their privacy policies in favour of citizen rights. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Civil Liberties, Communications
Tagged blackberry, Business, Civil Liberties, Communications, encryption, Information Technology, Privacy
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Technology (law) is everywhere!
At the firm where I’m working, I deal a lot with wills & estates, family law, and small business. “But wait!” you say. “Where’s the intellectual property and information technology?”
And I answer, “Everywhere.” Continue reading
How to save a drowning business
In a state of economic decline – the cold water – companies will shed their appendages to keep whatever oxygen remains for the vital organs. Like the human body, this results in drowning, as without those extremities, the company can no longer manoeuver in the water. Unlike the human body, this relfex is not hard to reprogram. By trimming the oxygen needs of the vital organs, the extremities can be kept functioning until the water warms. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Info Dynamics Intelligence
Tagged Business, corporate vision, equity, ethics, Info Dynamics Intelligence
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Information is the Good, the Currency, and the Era
I’m reading “Business @ the Speed of Thought,” by Bill Gates. (Chapters-Indigo Link Here) He wrote it ten years ago, which allows me the critical distance I prefer when reading a book that prognosticates. Say what you will about MS … Continue reading
Opening the Scope of Employee Contribution
Just because an employee has a job with certain assigned tasks for which he is responsible, it is nowhere mandated to limit the scope of that employee’s contribution to those tasks. Continue reading
Who carries your Web 2.0 banner?
What’s at stake when you let others step in your online footprint? Goodwill has to do with the perception of your enterprise, and liability has to do with getting into real legal trouble. How are they connected by this Web 2.0 stuff? … Being obnoxious, opinionated, or siding with one side of a contentious debate will not likely create more than a bad taste in the reader’s mouth. Being wrong, when you carry a banner of knowing better, can create a problem. Continue reading
Does WOM or Social Network Marketing Create Agency?
With WOM and social network marketing, we move from getting people to wear branded clothing to transforming them into fans banding together to pontificate, not on the merits of your product, but on the social imperative of being a fan of the brand. … We do have something that looks a lot like agency… Once you let someone use the stuff you’re supposed to be protecting, and you let them use it to an extent that gives them a fair bit of potential power because of the near-instantaneous and viral nature of the networks used, you’re actually handing over some pretty hefty reins. Continue reading
Shysters be Gone, part III
In part II, I identified two types of antisocial behaviour which we attempt to prevent, restrain, correct, punish, etc., with law: “those which harm the integrity of society, potentially leading to its collapse; and those which alter the dynamic of … Continue reading
Posted in Business Law, Legal Explorations
Tagged Business, contract, ethics, lex mercatoria, mercantile law, positive duty, shysters be gone
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Shysters be Gone! part II
We ended the first post in this series with the question, “Whence comes the ethical imperative, ‘Don’t be a Shyster!’?” Now we will get into it: I would like to draw an ephemeral line between moral and ethical laws – … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, contract, ethics, lex mercatoria, mercantile law, positive duty, shysters be gone
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