Linked List: December 15, 2011

Thursday, 15 December 2011

A Dollar Too Much 

Iain Marlow, reporting for The Globe and Mail:

Research In Motion Ltd.’s top executives cut their salaries to $1 as they delivered yet more dismal news to investors, telling the world the product that was supposed to save the company will come out almost a year later than promised.

The news that a new line of BlackBerrys with an upgraded operating system won’t be released until late 2012, combined with a weak outlook for the company’s fourth quarter, pounded RIM shares in after-hours trading. The stock fell more than 7 per cent to about $14 (U.S.).

Quote of the Day 

“Google products are machine-driven. They’re created by machines. And that is what makes us powerful. That’s what makes our products great.”

Yes, People Are Lining Up for the Galaxy Nexus 

Quite chivalrous of them to let all the women in first.

Merlin Mann Interviews Adam Lisagor 

Speaking of 30-something men recording intelligent discussion for your audio enjoyment, if you don’t like this interview of Adam Lisagor by Merlin Mann, you’re not hooked up right. (And man, what a great lineup of speakers they’ve got for Webstock this year.)

The Talk Show, Episode 71 

Topics on this week’s show include: yours truly’s appearance on On The Verge (including a brief interpolation on the verbal awkwardness of saying that one was on a show when the name of said show starts with the word “On”) the new Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal, objectivity in journalism and some introspection on just what it is I do here at DF, laggy interfaces in Mac OS X and Android, the new Twitter, a bit of James Bond news, and Louis C.K.’s indie content and success. I think this is a good episode of our show, I really like how this one turned out.

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