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by Arik Johnson: Lessons, Thoughts & Observations
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Last Update: Sat Sep 30 07:20:29 2006

+ Arik Johnson's ReconG2 Weekly from Aurora WDC - 09 January 2006 - Competitive Intelligence for the Need-to-Know Enterprise + Happy New Year! I hope you all had as great a holiday season as I did, but I imagine you're also eager to get back in the swing ...

+ RIM's BlackBerry Under Threat from Rivals & Other Risks + Despite RIM's September win in its long-running patent dispute with NTP, the company suffered a real setback last week when a ...

+ Google vs. Microsoft + Even as Microsoft won a victory recently against its new and increasingly agile young competitor Google in the case of Kai-Fu Lee, ...

+ Sony vs. Toshiba in DVD Format Wars: Samsung Positions for Ultimate Victory with Dual-Format Device + Even as Sony renews its determination that its new DVD format Blu-Ray will not to relive the painful Betamax experience of losing to ...

+ Intel's AMD Antitrust Rebuttal: We're Not Bad, You're Just Stupid + Intel fired back at AMD in rebutting its antitrust lawsuit, saying the company has only itself to blame for not being competitive as ...

+ Labor Day 2005: The Sad State of Labor Unions + As we recall this Labor Day 2005, I'm inexplicably drawn to ponder the future of organized labor, which seems to have been dealt ...

+ Hurricane Katrina: Disaster Impact on Energy Markets + Hurricane Katrina made landfall Monday but avoided a potential "Worst-Case Scenario" for the U.S. energy industry... and, as an ...

+ The Long Tail + As I consider myself something of an "insider" on new and emerging trends (doesn't everybody?) I'm almost ashamed to admit ...

+ The Greenspan Era Confab in the Tetons: Easy Money & the Real Estate Bubble + Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's warning that the current housing bubble is by no means burst-proof. Home prices could ...

+ Northwest Airlines: Mechanics Strike Will Negatively Impact Future of Organized Labor + Thanks to savvy planning ahead on the part of Northwest Airlines (thank goodness I'm not traveling much in August) it would ...

+ Google Talk: the VoIP/IM Extension and how it will Impact Skype, AOL, MSN & Yahoo + Back when I heard Google was raising $4 billion more dollars in a second offering I thought one of the targets might be erstwhile ...

+ AMD vs. Intel: the Abuse of Monopoly Power & a Dual-Core Chip Challenge + The grudge-match between AMD and Intel continues - although AMD is the clear aggressor in all of it. This week, in a follow up to ...

+ General Motors Success in China Proves Company Can Compete After All (Free of Union Labor, At Least) + General Motors has apparently figured out how to build the right car for the right market - in this case, $5,000 minivans that get 43 ...

+ China on the Prowl: CNOOC Bid for Unocal Must First Overcome Chevron + China's $700+ billion current account surplus is calling out for application to something besides U.S. bonds, so the Chinese ...

+ AMC + Loews = Consolidation Hitting the Slumping Theater Business + AMC Entertainment and Loews Cineplex Entertainment have decided to combine to see if maybe, together, they can beat the biggest ...