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Obsolesence

Hello? When I was 5 years old we had a phone like the one pictured above. Like everyone else, we didn’t own it, we leased it from Bell Telephone. By the time I left home at 18 to go to college, it...

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Hello?

Mr. Watson, come here... I need you... Sometimes when new technologies come along, they overturn the world of conventional thinking - particularly when it comes to valuation. Take a look at the telephone.

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Do The Right Thing

Don’t point that cell phone at me! The New York Times is carrying a story today that Nokia and filmmaker Spike Lee have signed a deal to create content out of ‘User Generated Content” made on Nokia phones. Nokia...

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The Beat Goes On

hello? The irrepressible power of new technologies both to create and to destroy reaches into every niche. No one is immune. The phone companies were once the most secure industries and the safest investment you could make.  ATT or...

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