54 posts and columns on Nortel
Aww, Canada
Between Nortel and RIM, we’ve seen $500 billion in market value vanish from Canada’s tech scene. We’d get a complex but we already have one.
— Mathew Ingram, tweeting about BlackBerry’s $4.7 billion buyout offer
Canada’s Worried About BlackBerry, and It Should Be
The Canadian government is “paying close attention” to BlackBerry’s downward spiral.Voices
Patent Trolls vs. Progress
Microsoft announced this week that it’s paying America Online $1.1 billion in cash for 800 of its patents. This comes just nine months after Apple, Microsoft and others beat out Google and Intel for control of Nortel Networks’ 6,000 patents, paying a then astounding $4.5 billion in cash. And in August of last year, Google announced a deal for Motorola Mobility along with their 24,000 patents for $12.5 billion. What’s going on here?AOL Has Some Pretty Sweet Patents, Too, Tim Armstrong Tells Wall Street
“Beachfront property in East Hampton.”Voices
Chinese Hackers Suspected In Long-Term Nortel Breach
For nearly a decade, hackers enjoyed widespread access to the corporate computer network of Nortel Networks Ltd., a once-giant telecommunications firm now fallen on hard times.News Byte