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Wokeness

Richard Martin January 12, 2023 No Comments

You’re free to say and believe what you want, but you’re NOT free to impose them on me or anyone else.

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What I (Re)Learned in 2016

Richard Martin December 19, 2016 No Comments

It’s always good to take stock when readying for the future. In the interests of sharing some of my recent observations, I provide this list of my “lessons learned” from 2016. Not all directly related to business, but still enlightening I should think.

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Meat and Potatoes Blackberry

Richard Martin April 30, 2013 No Comments

That’s not a new recipe to get your starch. According to this morning’s Wall Street Journal, the new Blackberry Q10 launched over the weekend in

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PCs – The Beginning of the End

Richard Martin April 12, 2013 No Comments

Most people don’t need a powerful desktop or laptop computer for everyday tasks. Email, messaging, reading news, talking on the phone or through video conferencing, scheduling activities, budgeting, etc., they can all be done on mobile devices. Even the occasional memo or report can be produced on a tablet.

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Imagine Christmas Music

Richard Martin November 3, 2012 No Comments

I just read that Shoppers Drugmart, the leading drugstore chain in Canada, has yanked its Christmas music after complaints from customers that it was way to soon to be hearing that in stores.

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Is Research In Motion Moving Away from the BlackBerry?

Richard Martin April 4, 2012 2 Comments

Research in Motion yesterday announced a new service to allow corporate IT departments to manage fleets of iPhones and Android phones using their secure management features. I wrote last year at about this time that RIM had to refocus on its true strength, which is the management and security of corporate and institutional mobile digital communications. I said at this time that it was the only way that RIM would be able to maintain its differentiation in the face of the Apple and Android onslaught.

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Richard Martin Quoted on Enbridge Oil Spill

Richard Martin July 31, 2010 1 Comment

I’ve been quoted in an article on the Enbridge oil spill in Michigan by Lauren Krugel of the Canadian Press. This article has already appeared

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Apple Is Getting Arrogant

Richard Martin June 25, 2010 No Comments

Apple’s (and ATT’s) difficult introduction of the iPhone 4 should be seen by the company as warning signals. Instead, Jobs and company seem rather more interested in minimizing problems and taking their customers for granted.

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Quoted by CBC on Gulf Oil Disaster

Richard Martin May 4, 2010 No Comments

I’m quoted in an article by the CBC on Guld oil disaster. My take is that we not overreact with a ban on offshore drilling,

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Divas of Doom or Realists ?

Richard Martin February 28, 2009 No Comments

Divas of Doom Article by Ian Brown   There is an article in today’s Globe and Mail about what the author, Ian Brown, calls the

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