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Drastic iPhone price reductions and iPod refresh good long term moves; the gauntlet has been thrown down for other cellphone manufacturers

Microsoft has always led, retaining control over what it does and how it does it (for better or worse). An interesting aspect of having one's intellectual/proprietary property declared a 'standard' is that one loses control... 

Althought the source article is skimpy it points to a move that has, from my view, the potential to be a software battlefield where both sides keep shovelling resources - people, money, goodwill - into the trenches and assume that 'right' will prevail.

The window of opportunity has started to close for Metro-scale WiFi projects. WiMax is killing the demand for metro WiFi but still have power consumption issues. Earthlink needs a new purpose in life!

This is truly a market driven segment in which vendor/developer can differentiate their product feature, service and support from competitors.  Satellite navigation thrives on ingenuity and leveraging open source technology.  The "value add" of satisfying niche markets will improve...

The article provides food for thought about Acer, Lenovo and other Asian based technology firms moving out of low end design and production into fully branded 'cradle to grave' product lines through waht appear to be quite dramatic acquisitions. What this implies for the Dell's and HP's of the...

There is no or minimal real spillover from the subprime mortgage implosion into the general purpose and private label credit card arena and absent a recession, which will happen at some point, there’s little reason to expect significant credit card performance deterioration or for credit card issuers...

There are none.  The fact that he needed to change the hardware makes this a risky proposition for all but the most ardent hackers.

In my previous post I had not yet seen this: http://www.iphonesimfree.com/ A software only solution for the iphone. This will increase iPhone sales at the expense of other brands and will help Apple's revenue numbers.

If MasterCard wins US debit market share from Visa substantially through pricing concessions and upfront payments to retail banks that will not be nearly as good for the payment network's long-term economics than if it picks up share principally through hybrid debit card relationships.