Archive for November 19th, 2008
The end must be near
19 November 2008When you pick up the telephone and it is a nice man from American Express (AXP:NYSE) calling, your mind immediately jumps between two places:
- did I pay my last bill?
- has someone bilked my card and run up huge internet poker debts?
Fortunately, it was neither. He was merely calling to remind me of an [...]
Obama, his BlackBerry and the spies
19 November 2008The New York Times ran a piece on November 15th about the likely pending separation of U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama from his Research In Motion (RIM:TSX) BlackBerry. The upshot was that Mr. Obama had thrived off of the device, and used it specifically to stay in contact with his extended circle of friends [...]