2 posts and columns on burning

Nokia's Stephen Elop Didn't Start the Fire–But His "Burning Platform" Certainly Lights One

in News on February 9, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

Memo to tech CEOs everywhere: Now that’s how to write an internal memo. That would be the 1,300-word one that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop apparently penned for employees at the Finnish telecom giant, which inevitably leaked to the media. In it, he uses the harsh but cogent metaphor of a burning oil platform to take a bracing opening shot at turning around Nokia.

The Swiss Army Knife of Portable Videos

in The Mossberg Solution on June 30, 2009 at 3:50 pm PT

RealPlayer SP grabs videos from the Web and converts and transfers them to over a dozen portable devices. While other software programs perform two or just one of these tasks, RealPlayer’s trio of talent make it like a digital Swiss army knife.
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