this was my comment, did not notice that FF4.0 have not took over the cookies from the 3.6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namcub
How long does it take before there is a hotkey combination for Emacs? And until it is applicable to humans?

I am working in a big corp myself. Pretty much everybody who can get an iPhone drops BB.
Only the geeks like me keep the BB. :-) :-(
And for me the reason is twofold:
- I am a data analyst so my email and data really have to be secure.
- And I am a Linux user at home and at work need to have Windows. So no Apple laptop and no use of iTunes too.
My case is really a exception where I work, though.
So no, general office folks don't care about all this stuff and get themselves an iPhone.

If BB platform becomes unattractive for lack of apps and goes belly up there will be nothing to compete for.

I totally hear what the article author is saying about the Playbook.
Just to give BB credit, where it's due, development and deployment for BB _handsets_ is actually free. The only thing you have to pay for is for inclusion into the BB app store. And this, only after the 10th release currently.
For the handsets you need a key to sing your apps if you want to use BB API. The keys registration fee was lifted just recently. To deploy you can put your app on any web-server and share the link for installation.
Unlike iPhone there is no jailbreaking needed for "out of app store" install.
I have just written a BB app and offering it for free under GPL for installation here

Download a free (as in the beer) app http://www.qlikview.com/us/explore/experience/free-download and see for yourself what current commercial software can do. I load as much as a hundred GB into the RAM for analytics with this application. Just keep in mind that star schema is the best for this software. Get your tables from an existing database as flat files, load them "as is" and start analysis immediately.

Russia seems to fullfill the proverbial "In Soviet Russia" joke. So much "leaked" stuff is being published there in the official press that nobody cares anymore. Especially because authoryties were mostly not impressed either and did not do anything after the articles were published.

Interesting enough recent blog posts in the livejournal tend to get direct attention up to president and prime minister level (Medvedev /Putin). I would explain it with the elitarist stucture of Russian society. The online crowd represents mostly the middle/upper class of it and so gets real attention. Whereas newspapers and TV are for the unwashed masses.

So if you'd need to impeach Obama, Georgia is a place to go to?

Russian is my mothertongue and Google has an acceptable translation of the article (originally in Russian). The OP has got the citation in a wrong context. Second part of the article is almost completely dedicated to the situation in Russia and its dominant oil export industry.

FYI: Some are talking about the "oil damnation" of the country in Russia a.k.a. as Dutch disease. Good news is that current Russian President openly aknowleges it in a way. Shifting weight of the Russian export from natural resources to the innovative and industrial production is a topic for active discussion in Russian media. This is the context of that problem.

until recently ISP were reasonably quiet about your serving habits. Don't you agree?

Very large companies need to have a disaster recovery plan in place, and contacts to call when downtime is costing money. ... So you don't modify the code, and you buy the support package.

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Very large companies would die if they loose their key personnel, because it's the very reason they grew big. I doubt any vendor can do enough to rescue such a company in a case of a disaster.