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The Hester-bonus/Goodwin-knighthood decisions were good because bankers have got to understand that they did something wrong.

Things are getting tough at RIM: the failure of its tablet; outages on its Blackberry service; a share price down 70% on the year, and mass terminations.

The new boss of ST-Ericsson is in his 50s. The out-going CEO is also in his 50s. Both have 
a list of qualifications as long as your arm but both lack a key ingredient for running a chip company - youth.

Is the Great Patent Boom over? Wireless patent troll InterDigital's bid to sell itself seems to be failing.

Last week the Cloud Computing operation of Microsoft went for a Burton.

Last week's Oregon confab between the US Secretary of State for Energy, various Deans of Engineering from top US universities and Intel CEO Paul Otellini produced the predictable response that the US should graduate more home-grown engineers.

Covad Communications, Clearwire, SpectraWatt - what have they all got in common? All were backed by Intel. And all failed.

If you were ever in doubt that we have to protect ourselves against the extreme financial toxicity of the banking industry, algorithm guru Kevin Slavin will put you right.

Is the iPad part of a new product segment called 'Tablet PC'? Or is it just the iPad -  the Galapagos Islands of  tech - something unique and uncategorised?  

We're told we're humungeously in debt. Well it may not be all that bad.

Will LED prices fall by 90% by 2015? Will LEDs account for 50% of all general purpose lighting by 2016?

Apparently 4% of CEOs are psychopaths. That's 4x the percentage of psychopaths in the population as a whole. Thanks to Robert Hare there is a check-list for judging if someone is a psychopath e.g. he enjoys firing people, he lies, lacks guilt or remorse, has an inflated sense of self-worth, lacks self-control, is easily bored, irresponsible, impulsive and promiscuous. Does it sound familiar?

Intel's efforts at diversification have become something of an industry joke. Ventures into consumer electronics (twice) ASICs (twice) telecoms (multiple) have gone sadly awry.

When anyone with a laptop, an iPhone or a Android phone can use Skype, what on earth is the point of owning it?

A lot of the time these top chaps just don't get it. Think what it would have done for Nokia's morale if they'd gone out and hired Jonathan Ive.

You've sent in some cracking entries to the 'Others' slot to last Monday morning's Poll on 'What's The Surest Sign The CEO Is Cracking Up?' Here are some of the best for which we are very grateful to all those who sent them in.

Funny thing the grapevine. You hear something from a colleague returning from a meeting. Then you hear it at a conference hotel bar. Then you see it on an Internet chat page. And then someone mentions it in public at a public meeting and it's all over the place.

KPMG, the accountancy and consultancy firm, has surveyed the chip industry and found that 78% of its respondents expect 6% growth in 2011.