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The company said today that 100 of the 6,200 it sold through Woot.com between October and December of 2011 may not have been properly reformatted.
In other words, they still contained the personal information of their previous owners — everything from email and social networking passwords to photos and documents.
Refurbished Motorola Xooms Sold With Data From Previous Owners – John Paczkowski – News – AllThingsD
Continue reading: Refurbished Motorola Xooms Sold With Data From Previous Owners – John Paczkowski – News – AllThingsD
Scripta manent…
What you’ll find is a lot of information that goes to the core of Oracle’s argument that HP has a lot to lose if the Itanium chip goes end of life, which is exactly what Oracle has said Intel plans to do. As the only major server vendor who sells boxes running Itanium chips, HP makes a lot of money — billions of dollars, according to a newly unredacted statement in the filing — on service-and-support contracts with its Itanium customers. As one HP executive is quoted on page four of the filing, without Itanium, HP would be “strategically screwed.”
Filing: Without Itanium Chip, HP Is "Strategically Screwed" – Arik Hesseldahl – News -… Continue reading: Filing: Without Itanium Chip, HP Is "Strategically Screwed" – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD
From a stark RIM reality check
RIM has two, maybe three ways forward.
The first — the one that Mr. Heins is clearly aiming for — is a triumphant comeback after a near-death experience. Think Apple and its iMac. RIM is on the verge of upgrading its PlayBook operating system — now with, among other things, e-mail, a feature that the original PlayBook bafflingly lacked — and will release the BlackBerry 10 OS this year.
Behind Door No. 2 is a gradual decline and diminution as rivals like Apple, Google and Microsoft devour most of the market; to some degree, they already have. BlackBerry would keep the… Continue reading: BlackBerry, Aiming to Avoid the Hall of Fallen Giants – NYTimes.com
This is likely to please at least RIM’s competitors
But while Mr. Balsillie and Mr. Lazaridis, who have become the targets of some disgruntled shareholders, are stepping aside, investors and others looking for changes in the company’s strategy may be disappointed.
The company named Thorsten Heins, currently one of RIM’s two chief operating officers, as chief executive. He pledged during an interview on Sunday to follow the strategy Mr. Balsillie and Mr. Lazaridis set in place.
RIM’s Balsillie and Lazaridis Step Aside – NYTimes.com
Continue reading: RIM’s Balsillie and Lazaridis Step Aside – NYTimes.com
Interesting times
In a series of tweets after the agreement was announced, some with the hashtag #anotherandroidlicense and making reference to the Occupy movement’s catchphrases, Microsoft execs teased Google and chided Apple for its penchant to sue instead of sign licensing agreements.
"Hey Google — we are the 70%," Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s vice president of corporate communications tweeted, referencing Microsoft’s assertion that it now has deals on 70 percent or more of the Android smartphones sold. Shaw later posted on Twitter, "Can we just agree to drop the patents-as-weapons meme? When effective licensing enables companies to share IP, the metaphor falls apart."
Microsoft execs jab at Google after signing Android… Continue reading: Microsoft execs jab at Google after signing Android patent-licensing deal – San Jose Mercury News
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