Archive for November 26th, 2004
Finally, the Smart Car is launching in the USA with a distribution company called ZAP. It seems kind of odd to me that they are being sold directly through the Mercedes dealers in Canada but being sold only through a distributor in the USA. That is the reverse of much of our business. [...]
Here is an interesting article on the differences between Japan’s NTT DoCoMo and Microsoft. One does R&D and then gives direction to a community of partners, developers, hardware suppliers, and content providers. The other starts from the same point but then develops (or acquires) the entire software architecture internally and then delivers it fait [...]
From the Register:
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Three “bored” German teenagers blew a staggering £80 million (₠130 million) in just two hours after they ran amok in an online spending spree.
Using stolen credit card details the trio bought airplanes, works of art, designer clothes, restaurants, industrial machinery, patents and sound systems.
They were arrested by [...]
