"Innocent" Steve Jobs - no, he can't be canned!

When Guy Kewney at NewsWireless.net asks:" Can Apple manage without Steve Jobs?" - he's joking, right?

"CEOs have been fired for doing what Steve Jobs is supposed to have been caught doing at Apple: backdating their share options to a time when they were worth less. Suppose it's true; and suppose he has to carry the can - will Apple manage without him?"

Summary:

"Even if they were legally required to appoint another CEO (they aren't) they'd make sure he stayed in charge, and obviously so. The alternative would be a collapse in the share price. Of course, there might be those who are already shorting their options in anticipation. Not inside Apple, of coure! - they wouldn't understand that, would they?"

Technorati Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple, iPhone, Mac, backdating, options

Is "patent vampire" going to become part of the language?

Looks like the CSR vs Broadcom story is getting some air: Business Bluetooth and the vampire ran in Science Business:

The choice of firms sued suggests that the WRF is interested primarily in deep pockets, rather than in the merits of its case. A UK journalist from The Register, a specialised publication that covers IT, asserts that the WRF is not just a patent troll, it is a patent “vampire”, scavenging second-rate IP from its members and then looking for soft-touch companies who would rather settle than litigate.

Technorati Tags: bluetooth, broadcom, CSR, patent, patent vampire, patent troll

What's a "SIM box"? Here's a clue...

SIM boxes, also known as GSM gateways, are used to bypass the interconnection and divert international calls to national GSM calls, thus evading revenue that operators are entitled to. Losses can easily amount to €3,500 per SIM box annually.



More details in the PR releases section of Newswireless

Ghent, 12 January 2007. – In 2006, the company Meucci Solutions, who specialise in quality measurements between telecom networks, detected over 50,000 SIM boxes, predominantly on European mobile operators.

Technorati Tags: SIM boxes, meucci Solutions, European mobile, GSM gateways, fraud

Proper Bluetooth headphones for iPod, iPhone

I don't like in-ear earphones. I like over-the-ear things like the iMuffs - the Bluetooth stereo headset for your iPhone « Dirty Bytes reports:

Now you have your iPhone ordered, how … about some accessories?

So, you’ve graduated beyond the “I’m wearing white earplugs” look? You want a good stereo headset, for music, but it has to be wireless? AND it has to be phone-friendly? iMuffs!

Yes, a new model, at Macworld, too…

Technorati Tags: iPhone, iPod, iMuffs, headset, Bluetooth

fair warning...

I'm about to try linking Performancing to this blog again.

It used to work. Then I ran Writeley, which was then included in Google.

Result: immediately, I found my Google identity subsumed with another Google gmail account, and I was forced to pick one. Next thing I know, I can't log into this site except from my other Google gmail identity.

Naturally, that screwed up Performancing