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Google buys Motorola and its giant patent portfolio
The official statement from Google says, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG – News) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:MMI – News) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, infrastructure, Technology
Tagged google, intellectual property, microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Patents
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Learnings from the Browser Wars
The question on Quora goes, What lessons can be learned from the first browser war between Microsoft and Netscape? I covered that war when it broke out, more than fifteen years ago. No magazine was interested in my writing then. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, history, Ideas, Journalism, Past, problems, Quote, Technology
Tagged "Dave Winer", browser war, DaveNet, microsoft, Mozilla, Netscape, Userland, war
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The longer view
We have two iPhones in our family. Yesterday we traded in the older one — my wife’s first-generation model, bought in 2007 — at Radio Shack. They gave us $72.94 for the phone and charger, against $199 for a new 16Gb … Continue reading
Posted in Business
Tagged "Bob Frankston", Apple, Fake Steve Jobs, microsoft, RIM, Steve Jobs
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We’re gonna need a bigger boat
WebTV was way ahead of its time and exactly backwards. The idea was to put the Web on TV. In the prevailing media framework of the time, this made complete sense. TV had been around since the Forties, and nearly … Continue reading
Getting real about fixing health care
I’m listening right now to On Point*, where the topic is Pushing E-Health Records. The only case against electronic health records (EHR, aka electronic medical recordsk, or EMR) is risk of compromised privacy. Exposure goes up. The friction involved in … Continue reading
Posted in Future, Health, infrastructure, problems, Science, VRM
Tagged Big Pharma, crypto, ehr, emr, google, hcrm, Health Care Relationship Management, Kevin Kelly, kieretsu, kk, microsoft, point of integraion, point of origination, projectvrm, silo, Technium, VRM
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May the best giants adapt
I may be alone in thinking that Microsoft’s offers for Yahoo were all mistakes. All were too much to pay for a company that would be hollow on Day Two. But don’t get the idea that I care all that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Future, Life, News, VRM
Tagged Bill Hicks, Dan Farber, Gillmor Gang, google, microsoft, Steve Gillmor, yahoo
13 Comments