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15th March 2003 Archive

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  • Carriers conspire to cage 800lb reindeer

    What's the platform? The service or the phone?

    The political power struggle between the cellular networks and the handset manufacturers continues to get ever more fiendishly complicated. As if it wasn't complicated enough to begin with. Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens all supply back-end infrastructure to the carriers too, so it's always been a tangled, symbiotic arrangement. …

    Mobile 15 Mar 2003, 01:08

  • Can Bill Gates' ‘turd world’ ambassador help sell Windows in India, China?

    Let's find out

    The Bush administration has decided to hire a New York-based advertising executive to 'sell American diplomacy' and promote US values abroad. Apparently, the core values behind "Brand America" are not getting through. This won't be cheap, but it must be done. But why waste more taxpayers' money? The United States already has …

    Bootnotes 15 Mar 2003, 11:21

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