No More Mr Nice Guy, Warns Telefonica CEO
No more Mr Nice Guy, is the message from Telefonica to MWC this morning.
Paranoia corner
Big Brother Is Catching Up
The killer app of the decade got closer yesterday with Facebook’s acquisition of face.com.
Who's Afraid Of The Foundries?
The semiconductor industry has known for decades that ‘only the paranoid survive’ thanks to the great Andy Grove, and the object of paranoia in the semiconductor industry is the foundry industry…
Good Luck Everyone
Tomorrow, unless a group of scientists led by German chemist Otto Rossler get an order preventing it from the European Court of Human Rights, CERN switches on its Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Rossler argues this may create a black hole into which we will all disappear…
Weak Dollar Surprises Bozotti (again)
Dear old Bozotti. Like a gramophone record which has got stuck, the boss of STMicroelectronics has blamed the dollar for poor results for the third quarter in a row…
Hungarians, Revolving Doors & Stroppy Waiters
According to a venerable English adage, Hungarians are the only people who can go into a revolving door behind you, and come out of it in front of you…
Suspicious Old Sod
It’s been lovely reading the coverage about the electricity cuts at the Samsung memory plant at Kiheung because every single report has been sympathetic to Samsung and thoroughly concerned about the effect on its business. It was not always like this…
World Leader
I notice that Intel has adopted the habit of putting at the bottom of every press announcement the words: ‘Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation…