RIMs real problems center around two big issues: its market is saturating, and it seems to have lost the ability to create great products. This is a classic problem that eventually faces most successful computer platforms. The danger is not that RIM is about to collapse, but that itll drift into in a situation where it cant afford the investments needed to succeed in the future.

via Mobile Opportunity: Whats really wrong with BlackBerry and what to do about it.

What Happened to Yahoo.

Apples blow-out quarter: The bloggers called it. The Street blew it. – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech.

The plane slowed and leveled out about a mile aboveground. Up ahead, the Viennese castle glowed like a fairy tale palace. When the pilot gave the thumbs-up, Gerald Blanchard looked down, checked his parachute straps, and jumped into the darkness. He plummeted for a second, then pulled his cord, slowing to a nice descent toward the tiled roof. It was early June 1998, and the evening wind was warm. If it kept cooperating, Blanchard would touch down directly above the room that held the Koechert Diamond Pearl. He steered his parachute toward his target.

Fascinating…

via Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief | Magazine.

In Case You Haven’t Figured It Out, Immigrants Are Good For The Economy « Questing for Atlantis.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

—Emma Lazarus, 1883

via The New Colossus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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