Quick Takes: The RIM Tragedy, Lame Market Research, Ebooks Closer to Tipping, Flip vs. Cisco, Google as Microsoft, Nokia and the Word "Primary"

Short thoughts on recent tech news... RIM as Greek tragedy I wrote last fall that I was worried about RIM's financial stability ( link )...

RIM's Q3 Financials: A Tale of Two BlackBerries

People have been asking for my take on RIM's latest quarterly earnings, which were reported last week ( link ).  The short answer is tha...

What's really wrong with BlackBerry (and what to do about it)

Just a couple of weeks after Research in Motion turned in a good earnings report, the death watch over the company has resumed, with Busines...

Four questions about the Microsoft-Nokia alliance

The Microsoft-Nokia alliance turned out to be a lot more interesting than the pre-announcement rumors made it out to be. Rather than just a...

Symbian: Evolving toward open

It's fascinating to watch the evolution as Symbian remakes itself from a traditional OS company into an open-source foundation. They...

Checking in on smartphone and Twitter usage

Over at Rubicon, we just did a quick consumer survey to check the status of a couple of hot topics in the tech industry, smartphone adoption...