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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>
		<category><![CDATA[android]]></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>Android Army vs. Apple:  Why Apple Never Had a Chance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 06:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maurice Amzallag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Android&#8217;s dominance over Apple is effectively a fait accompli (see latest Neilsen data).  A post-mortem, so to speak, reveals that Apple never had a chance. Although a technical and design innovator, the mighty Apple cannot withstand the ongoing onslaught from the Android Horde.  It&#8217;s demise as the leading platform can be attributed to 3 factors: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Clouds over Canada</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/dark-clouds-over-canada/1864</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 18:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Van Holst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyber criminals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital economy strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friday the 13th]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Trend Micro seminar in Ottawa last week, where their CTO opened the talk on Cloud Computing security with the term &#8216;Dark Clouds&#8217;. Rafael Ruffolo covered that same seminar in Toronto the next day with this article, but he didn&#8217;t mention the dark clouds opening analogy (maybe he had a different opening for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gartner vs. Google&#8217;s Cloud: One of them didn&#8217;t float with IT Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 11:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pashuk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gartner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the privilege of attending Midsize Enterprise Summit in Orlando this week.  While the weather has been delightful, the long days of the conference made sure we didn&#8217;t really get time to enjoy it. The theme of the week has been cloud computing, and several notable experts from Gartner Research, as well as industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless tagging</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/shameless-tagging/1270</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pashuk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2) Strategies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[J-Lo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Layton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Bieber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motorcycle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shane Schick]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to watch a movie by Stephen Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, or starring Brad Pitt, J-Lo, or even (gasp) Justin Bieber without seeing product placements from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nike, RIM, Dell, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and others. On screen stars are using iPhones, iPads, iPods, Android phones, and you will soon even see Motorola tablets and RIM [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[android]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[research in motion]]></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>Office in the Cloud Showdown: Office Web Apps vs Google Docs</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/cloud-computing-showdown-office-web-apps-vs-google-docs/607</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/cloud-computing-showdown-office-web-apps-vs-google-docs/607#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Office 2010 is being released this week. Will its Office Web App beat Google's Google Docs?]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter to sells Ads to pay the Bills</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/twitter-to-sells-ads-to-pay-the-bills/556</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/twitter-to-sells-ads-to-pay-the-bills/556#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter began selling a service called Promoted Tweets today.  Will it work? Will Twitter be Profitable? ]]></description>
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		<title>ERP Software-as-a-Service: Choosing the Duck versus the Chicken</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/erp-software-as-a-service-choosing-the-duck-versus-the-chicken/469</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed the price premium of duck over chicken in restaurants? There are many reasons (e.g. numbers raised in captivity, diversity of usage across products, cost to domesticate, maintenance, etc.) and I am sure you can come up with more on your own,. Fundamentally though, ducks and chickens are both birds and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Drama of HTML 5 Standards</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/the-drama-of-html-5-standards/348</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google and Apple are pushing HTML 5 'standard.' Where does this leave Adobe?]]></description>
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