Jerry Yang meet Carl Icahn, the venerable corporate financier. You may have heard of Mr. Icahn; he’s the rarest kind of shareholder; the one who is able to promote change.
I’m not sure if you’ve run into each other but you’ll get to know the name very well over the next several weeks and months. […]

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Lost amid the roar from investors and users after Monday’s big BlackBerry Bold product announcement was the start of a competition that will help determine what company becomes the leader of the smartphone market.
The $150-million BlackBerry fund, announced Monday, was established to encourage and ultimately fund the creation of mobile applications that will run […]

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It’s been almost a year but RIM has responded to the iPhone threat and wow, it looks like a good one. For those gadgets lovers or business readers that took an extra long weekend, RIM earlier Monday introduced the BlackBerry Bold, part of its 9000 series of smartphones and one of the worst-kept secrets […]

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It doesn’t matter whether Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s bombastic CEO, walked away from the negotiating table over the weekend, as Jerry Yang says he did.
The Yahoo! Inc. founder and CEO should’ve never let the talks get to that point. Yes it’s true Rule #1 of negotiations is to never take the first offer from a […]

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Message to Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer: we don’t believe you.
A steadfast, hypercompetitive person such as yourself doesn’t give up on what could, will easily be the largest takeover in company history that easily.
Yet that’s exactly what Mr. Ballmer claims Microsoft did last night when the company said it has withdrawn its US$47-billion […]

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Here at kevinrestivo.com, experimentation in the name of reader satisfaction and ultimately increased traffic is the name of the game. To that end, I’m going to begin a series of small experiments.
The first such trial begins today (Saturday) with a brief wrap of some of the major wireless news stories/events that happened in […]

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So Rogers Communications can do no wrong. It’s easy to see why such an opinion is held by many cell phone users and investors at the moment.
The company is slowly pulling away from competitors Bell and Telus in the lucrative cell phone service game in Canada and the company’s stock is moving towards its […]

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Gadget geeks in the Great White North are rejoicing today after Rogers Communications said it will bring the much-anticipated iPhone to Canada later this year.
Rogers didn’t say when the device will be launched or provide other details such as pricing. Expect the iPhone to be released no earlier than July. (Note to readers: I […]

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The New York Times published a borderline bizarre story today that seems to suggest RIM’s best days are days are behind it given increased competition.
The timing and content of the story is odd for a number of reasons. BusinessWeek and other publications have already beat its readers over the head with the topic.
The thesis […]

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Poor overworked engineers buried deep within the confines of various cell phone manufacturer’s research and development arms have been trying for year to turn the simple cell phone into a full-fledged communications device without much success.
Despite best efforts, the traditional cell phone is still primarily used as a device to make voice calls, store calendar […]

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