It's a well-known fact that all automobiles, no matter how well-maintained and -loved, eventually die and need to be replaced. The day comes when the maintenance costs become untenable and off to the dealer we go. Car sales are in the dumper right now, a function of the overall macroeconomic picture and high fuel prices, and this situation isn't going to improve anytime ...
You know how sometimes you start down a particular path and things just get more interesting as you go? And you wind up spending a lot more time than you thought you would, as the problem gets deeper and more complex? And you look up, after a few weeks, and wonder where all the time went?
As I first noted back in January, Sprint is in fact now officially spinning off its WiMAX project as a joint venture with Clearwire (and that's the name of the new company), Comcast, Time-Warner, Intel, Google (that's interesting) and others. This should given the new company enough money to build out many US markets, so WiMAX really is coming to town, perhaps in 2010. ...
See, this is just what I meant in my recent entry on mobile applications. RIM and SAP have formed one of those all-too-common partnerships/alliances/whatever (a colleague of mine from long ago used to refer to these as the "rules of engagement") that basically puts SAP code on BlackBerrys. First question - why is the porting of an application such a big deal? Obviousl ...