Apple's Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee's job, according to a court filin...
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Apple: the Numbers Behind the (Huge) Numbers
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) just came off its best quarter yet, in which its profit of $13.6 billion and revenues of $46 billion more than doubled its year-ago quarter, making it the second largest U.S. company by market cap. (See Apple Reports Q1 Revenue of $46B.) ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Now, What is Really Apple Worth
(Reuters) - Apple Inc shares surged the most in more than three years, after skyrocketing iPhone and iPadsales helped it smash Wall Street expectations, prompting analysts to raise their price targets on the stock by as much as $100.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Cisco Brings Smart Cities Within Reach
The concept of the smart city is one that holds a lot of promise and potential in terms of how computerized, networked public infrastructure might improve energy efficiency, resource management, and the overall quality of life in cities. Given the impact that computers and smart phones have had on our personal and professional lives, it seems that the application of computer technology to the infrastructure of cities has even greater potential to change the way we live. Despite this potential, and with only a few exceptions, smart city technologies have yet to be adopted in most places.&nbs...
Amazon, Again!, Uses Cheap Shot 'Sex Sells' Tactic For Kindle Campaign
Amazon's latest TV commercial for the Kindle Fire again features a female model distracting viewers from the device -- for all the wrong reasons. Whether it's deliberate or not is anyone's guess. (Video below.)At first glance, the Kindle Fire ad seems unremarkable: a career-type woman arrives at her brownstone townhouse to find that Amazon has left one of its familiar boxes on her doorstep. To her delight, it's the new Kindle Fire. And … scene!...
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RIM's New CEO Says: Not Different, Just Better
Just hours into his new job, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; Toronto: RIM) President and CEO Thorsten Heins took to YouTube Inc. to talk about his plans for the Canadian BlackBerry maker. (See RIM Co-Chairs Step Down.)&nbs...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
OS Watch: What's RIM Worth?
Analysts are pondering a realistic acquisition price for Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; Toronto: RIM) and other outcomes for the troubled company in this week's operating-system chronicle. ...
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Friday, January 20, 2012
If You're An Average Worker, You're Going Straight To The Bottom
The way we do business is changing fast and in order to keep up, your entire mentality about work has to change just as quickly.Unfortunately, most people aren't adapting fast enough to this change in the workplace, says marketing guru Seth Godin in an interview with the Canadian talk show "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight" (via Pragmatic Capitalism...
Posted in: Business Management
Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Top 10 Smart Cities On Our Planet
Crunching a list of variables about innovation and sustainability, we rank the world’s smartest cities, from New York to Hong Kong (and with an unexpected winner)
Last year, I spent considerable time researching best practices for climate resilient cities--an endeavor that culminated in what I believe was the first ever global ranking of resilient cities. Now, after extensive research on smart cities initiatives around the globe, I have developed what may be the first ever global rankings of smart citie...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Trust 300 Launched, Clear Vision & Well Established Boards
Trust 300, the Arab IT company established by “By Law Consultancy” and a group of its partners, has been officially launched this week, making it the first global Arab company specialized in the IT sector.
The official launch was announced during 15-16-17 January 2012 in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah under the patronage of H.H. Sheikha Hind Bint Abdulaziz Al Qassimi, Chairperson of UAE Business Women Council and Goodwill Ambassador of the Scientific and Human Development Program, H.E. Abdul Rahman Saif Al Ghurair,Chairman of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and under the patronage of Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industr...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
These CEOs Got Paid $100+ Million Each To Quit
When Gene Isenberg stepped down as CEO of Nabors Industries last fall, the company paid him $100,000,000 in cash as part of his employment agreement.
But that's chump change.
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Posted in: Business Management
Monday, January 16, 2012
Global Arab IT company set for launch
A new IT company, which is being described as the first global Arab IT company, is set for launch in the UAE next week.
Trust 300 will be launched by a group of partners, with an initial presence in the UAE, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, India, UK, US, and the Philippines.&nbs...
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City hears more smart meter debate
Meter readers outline lost jobs; Hydro pledges greater efficiency
Lost jobs or lost electricity? Two sides of the smart meter debate came to the City of North Vancouver to make their cases before council Monda...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
5 Ways The Smart City Will Change How We Live In 2012
Five predictions on how smarter buildings will impact daily life and efficiency of our cities, from IBM’s Smarter Buildings division.
By 2050, the world’s population is projected to be more than 9 billion, with roughly 70% of people residing in urban areas. With more people flocking to cities, there is an urgent demand for smarter, more sustainable cities.
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City Google ….. Coming soon? Smart Cities Search engine…
City Systems are getting more and more instrumented and becoming an intensive source of data. Smart meters, street cameras, traffic tolls, parking meters, mobile phones and other sensors embedded in all urban systems that forms cities generates huge amount of data which when intelligently analyzed valuable information can be produced for city leaders....
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Monday, January 9, 2012
6 Startups to Watch in 2012
An Olympic games, a U.S. presidential election and the end of the world are already planned for 2012, but we’re more excited about the startups.
Here are six of them (in no particular order) that we expect to help define the coming year. We chose companies based on the momentum they gained in 2011, promising new takes on old problems and, in one case, the possibility of an IPO.
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Posted in: Business Management
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Cisco Finally Drops ūmi
When Cisco
Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO)
started its restructuring last year, it wasn't hard to pick ūmi as likely cut.
Like the Flip camera, ūmi was part of Cisco's push to put video networking in
consumers' hands. But some of us contended from the start that this didn't have
to be Cisco's job. It's not as if video's success was a question, especially
with the iPhone having already become a big deal.
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