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		<title>Happy Holidays to All</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish all of you the very best of the holiday season. 
That said, I&#8217;ll probably find time for a post or two before we cross the threshold into 2010. 
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		<title>Avaya Wraps Deal for Nortel Enterprise Business, Prepares for Post-Merger Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Avaya has closed its acquisition of Nortel&#8217;s enterprise business, it must figure out how to meet new challenges as a bigger company with weightier expectations. 
Owned by private-equity concerns Silver Lake and TPG capital, which bought the company for approximately $8.2-billion in 2007, Avaya now has paid $900-million for insolvent Nortel&#8217;s enterprise assets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2316&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diverging Prospects for RIM and Palm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research In Motion (RIM) and Palm both reported their latest quarterly results yesterday. RIM produced third-quarter results and guidance that were better than what the market expected; Palm disappointed. 
As the smartphone market becomes more fiercely contested, these sets of results were analyzed for more than their immediate trading utility. Analysts and pundits carefully scrutinized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2310&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McAfee Commits to China, Establishes Wholly Owned Subsidiary</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/mcafee-commits-to-china-establishes-wholly-owned-subsidiary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Malware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve discussed previously in venerable forum, security-software vendors face unique challenges in trying to crack the potentially lucrative Chinese market. 
Notwithstanding those challenges, security-software market leaders such as Symantec, McAfee, and Trend have every intention of pursuing opportunities in China. To do so, they must find the right mix of product offerings (including localization), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2308&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco&#8217;s Chambers Says Tandberg Acquisition Went According to Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come on, John. Just admit you were temporarily flummoxed. We all make mistakes, take a wrong step from time to time, and you and your boys got knocked back on your heels before regaining your balance on this one. 
That was my reaction when I read a few days back that Cisco CEO John Chambers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2306&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CommVault CEO Says Company Not Interested in Being Acquired</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rumors abound that Dell is poised to acquire a software company, most likely of the enterprise variety. 
CommVault Systems, a Dell partner and data-management software firm that had been mentioned as a Dell acquisition candidate, apparently will not be subject to a takeover. 
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, CommVault CEO Robert Hammer said the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2304&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glassdoor Compiles List of Best and Worst Technology Employers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adobe Systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glassdoor.com, the online career and workplace community, has polled employees across America and compiled its second annual list of the best and worst companies for which to work. 
Om Malik has listed the highest-rated and lowest-rated technology companies. Juniper Networks ranks at the top among technology employers, though technically it finishes in a dead heat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2302&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lurid Bribery Case Doesn&#8217;t Reflect Poorly on Gartner</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/lurid-bribery-case-doesnt-reflect-poorly-on-gartner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a headline nobody at Gartner wants to see. Thankfully, the underlying story isn&#8217;t nearly as distressing. 
The well-known consultancy and IT market-research concern probably is mortified that a news story posted on the Network World website &#8212; and covered elsewhere, too &#8212; offers the lurid headline, &#8220;Former Gartner manager gets jail for accepting bribes.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2300&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gartner Sees Better TImes Ahead for Smartphones in 2010</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/gartner-sees-better-times-ahead-for-smartphones-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gartner says smartphone sales didn&#8217;t quite meet its expectations in 2009, even though the high-end handsets continue to account for a growing percentage of overall mobile-phone sales. 
In 2013, according to Gartner, more than every third phone sold will be a smartphone. The market-research firm says the biggest threat to that forecast is represented by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2298&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Latest Privacy Betrayal Shouldn&#8217;t Surprise Anyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business models]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the latest privacy-related Facebook controversy exploded in shards of anger, righteous indignation, and disappointment, I was reminded of the lyrics to an old Archers of Loaf song, &#8220;What Did You Expect?&#8221;. 
The chorus is good, but near the end of the number, the following words are barely intelligible amid the din: 
You aren&#8217;t listening
To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2296&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Phone Could Give Microsoft Reprieve with Handset Licensees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Electronics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that Google will release a mobile handset of its own. 
Reports suggest that the mobile phone, called the &#8220;Nexus One,&#8221; will be manufactured by HTC, a licensee of Google Android, and will work on the T-Mobile network.(From a technical perspective, it probably could work on the AT&#38;T Wireless GSM network, too, but Google [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2281&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise-Switching Dilemma Behind Cisco&#8217;s Strategic Shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Goldman Sachs is right, Cisco will be faced with a dilemma in 2010. Under mounting pricing pressure from emboldened competitors in enterprise switching, Cisco will have to choose between defending is margins or defending its market share. 
If it chooses to defend its market share &#8212; which slipped from 75 percent in Ethernet switching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2273&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avaya Must Avoid Distractions in Nortel Integration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If all goes according to plan, Avaya will take possession of insolvent Nortel&#8217;s enterprise assets, won at auction for approximately $900 million in September. 
It&#8217;s at that point that Avaya will face some difficult decisions and daunting challenges. As it integrates and assimilates Nortel products and employees &#8212; not to mention its channel partners &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2265&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Finally Announces Opalis Acquisition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure what took so long, but Microsoft today finally announced its acquisition of run-book-automation software vendor Opalis. 
Although terms of the deal weren&#8217;t disclosed, sources told me back in October that Microsoft would pay about $59 million for the Toronto-based software concern. 
What delayed the announcement of the acquisition? I&#8217;m not sure, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2263&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Consumer Entropy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must be doing something wrong. Actually, I know I&#8217;m doing something  wrong &#8212; a few things, if truth be told. 
Still, I never get invited to speak at industry dinners, and I don&#8217;t understand why. While I get some things wrong, and will continue to do so, I occasionally get some things right. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=2251&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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