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		<title>Survival Strategies for RIM</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/survival-strategies-for-rim/2153</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 22:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maurice Amzallag</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3) Tablets and Mobility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As illustrated in my previous post, companies adopting a closed ecosystem (eg. Apple and RIM) will find it increasingly difficult to compete against the combined R&#38;D and marketing budgets of the Android Army. This is of concern to us for two reasons: (a) RIM is the crown jewel of the Canadian tech industry, and (b) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to buy a Playbook or a Chromebook? Can you really trust reviews?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 12:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pashuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I drink my coffee black.  I didn&#8217;t always take it this way. When I started, I was like many who would enjoy a Timmee&#8217;s DD (This is a Canadian colloquialism, it has nothing to do with cup size), but then I dropped the sugar.  Then the cream. When I first decided to drop the cream, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BYOT &#8211; what are your requirements?</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/byot-what-are-your-requirements/1756</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/byot-what-are-your-requirements/1756#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 21:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Van Holst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about this week&#8217;s theme of BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) to work, and how I can add value to the excellent posts already written. So it&#8217;s inevitable; not only will devices be selected by end users (even purchased by end users), these devices will take increasing diversity of form.  Desktops, laptops, servers [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>BYOT &#8211; Encouraging CIOs to BYOB</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/byot-encouraging-cios-to-byob/1784</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/byot-encouraging-cios-to-byob/1784#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 13:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pashuk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conference]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IT management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, maybe it won&#8217;t drive you to drink, but you may want to locate the headache pills. This week&#8217;s topic is Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT), a trend that was forcast by Gartner Group and others at least 4 years ago, indicating that by 2012, over one half of endpoint technology decisions would be made [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tablets and Mobility &#8211; A Personal View</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/tablets-and-mobility-a-personal-view/1612</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/tablets-and-mobility-a-personal-view/1612#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been off-line for a week now&#8230;&#8230;..I couldn&#8217;t find any way to complete a physical move from a condo to an apartment using the Internet.  Got stuck with doing physical work!  Thank goodness I wasn&#8217;t moving far. I also see that time is passing quickly for the Blogging Idol contest and, frankly, the last two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: RIM Playbook</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/review-rim-playbook/1441</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/review-rim-playbook/1441#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2) Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3) Tablets and Mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4) Social Media Service]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blackberry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After getting a Playbook early last week (thanks to the community support here) , I wondered what it would have been like to compete on blogidol this year if writing entries on a tablet. In addition to responding to topics posted by other competitors, responding to others&#8217; posts, and trying to keep up with the level [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where you born this way, baby?</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/where-you-born-this-way-baby/1290</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/where-you-born-this-way-baby/1290#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gerochi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogidol.ca/?p=1290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You are an early adopter. Here are 3 reasons: 1.  You are reading this blog. 2.  You are already enjoying an illustrious career in IT or are working on one. 3.  You haven&#8217;t made it this far without being an early adopter. What specifically is an early adopter? Everett Rogers wrote a book in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>RIM Blackberry Launches Playbook Giveaway Contest on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/rim-blackberry-launches-playbook-giveaway-contest-on-twitter/1142</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/rim-blackberry-launches-playbook-giveaway-contest-on-twitter/1142#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2) Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4) Social Media Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, blogidol contestants. Research in Motion this morning launched an usual contest on twitter, leading to the Playbook launch on April 19th. Is this advertising strategy bleeding edge, or viral? Blogidolers, be aware that this post will not count for ComputerWorld&#8217;s own blogidol.ca contest. I was last year&#8217;s winner, but this year&#8217;s judge. My contest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on the HP acquisition of PALM</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/05/notes-on-the-hp-acquisition-of-palm/855</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/05/notes-on-the-hp-acquisition-of-palm/855#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lau</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[android]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement on HP’s purchase of PALM was a surprise. Yet, the PALM purchase makes good sense. Will HP be able to Grow Palm? Will HP Succeed?]]></description>
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		<title>Will Palm Slap HP?</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/05/will-palm-slap-hp/864</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/05/will-palm-slap-hp/864#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 05:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maurice Amzallag</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Elevation Partners, the private equity firm who dodged a bullet when they unloaded their 40% share of Palm in HP’s $1.2 billion buyout.  This investment was widely expected to go south, so a 5% return over 2 years, a dud by any other standard, is considered quite the save.  But will HP be [...]]]></description>
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