Company says it is taking a $485 million charge because they are selling the Blackberry Playbook at around $200. The good news is that they are actually selling. The bad news is that they are sold about about a $150-$200 loss per unit. A $485 million writedown for the discounting, along with costs related to [...]
December, 2011:
A new perspective on crime
The NYPD is doing 360 degree panoramas of crime scenes now. In 2009, to better record crime scenes, the New York City Police Department began using the Panoscan, a camera that creates high-resolution, 360-degree panoramic images. Each panorama takes between 3 to 30 minutes to produce, depending on the available light, and is added to [...]
All-22
The camera angle that the NFL doesn’t want you to see. Without the expanded frame, fans often have no idea why many plays turn out the way they do, or if the TV analysts are giving them correct information. On a recent Sunday, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith threw a deep pass to tight [...]
Should we revisit the legacy of John Turner
From iPolitics on a new biography of John Turner. It sounds strange now, but Turner actually had collegial relationships with members of other parties. In fact, as Paul Litt notes, Turner once saved John Diefenbaker from drowning while on holiday in Barbados. With the current PM on the beach, and an opposition leader floundering in [...]
In praise of high priced consultants
Dan Gardner writes in the Ottawa Citizen. Remember the story of David Rotor and Douglas Tipple? As Stephen Maher recalled recently on these pages, they were the two experts on procurement hired by the Martin Liberals – at a cost of $330,000 a year each – to find savings in the federal government’s procurement process. [...]
The race to the bottom
The Blackberry Roundtable with Kady O’Malley and Scott Reid has some interesting thoughts on the Conservative Party push polling the Irwin Cotler’s riding with the suggestion he had resigned. AP: When Montreal Liberal MP Irwin Cotler heard that someone was making phone calls to his constituents suggesting that Cotler had resigned and that there would [...]
