Coop's Corner

If Apple can go home again, why not Dell?

Charles Cooper — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:26:00 GMT

An unexpected bump in the head landed yours truly in the emergency ward recently, and when they wheeled me up to the CAT scan, I handed over my cell phone.

"Oh, we don't need that," the attendant told me. "We only take iPhones."

Wow, I thought. Of all places ...

Why Uncle Sam must stop subsidizing inefficient companies

Charles Cooper — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:57:00 GMT

From time to time, I'm going to open up this space to guest writers with an interesting point of view. This week, Gregory L. Rosston is taking a turn in the spotlight. Rosston is the deputy director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and of the Public ...

Slouching toward telecommuting: IT's newest challenge

Charles Cooper — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:39:00 GMT

It was simply happenstance but this headline crossed the wire just as I was boring a colleague with another doom-and-gloom update on the skyrocketing price of energy.

"Fortune 500 Visionaries Speak at Woodside Private Home Theatre for Discussion on Smart Energy & Grids."

Telecommuting's best argument

(Credit: CNET

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The founder's dilemma: How to play the final sale

Charles Cooper — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT

You're sitting in a conference room negotiating the sale of your company, still haggling at the 11th hour over a price. But wait: Should you even be there to begin with?

Jerry Yang and David Filo apparently thought so. They flew up to Seattle last weekend to meet Steve ...

Decider 1, RIAA 0

Charles Cooper — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:58:00 GMT

Hand it to "The Decider" for nailing it.

"The model of the future is what Trent Reznor is doing today. What that means for the RIAA and its members is that it renders them obsolete."

His is the second TalkBack post commenting on our story about an executive from the ...

Why Intel's betting its chips on 4G

Charles Cooper — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:01:00 GMT

At first blush, it sounds as if Intel's throwing good money after bad. After all, why pay $1 billion to join a consortium which has "squabble-fest" written all over it?

4G has been a slow train coming and the latest attempt by Sprint and Clearwire to speed the transition ...

Gates on Yahoo: What part of 'no' don't you understand?

Charles Cooper — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:54:00 GMT

Bill Gates must be thrilled the day is near when his every sound bite about Microsoft won't be subjected to something akin to biblical exegesis. (Starting in July, he goes to work full time for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Truth be told, we'll likely continue to ...

If I had a nickel for every Yahoo rumor

Charles Cooper — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:47:00 GMT

What would we do with ourselves if the spigot of Yahoo rumors ran dry? Not to fear, boys and girls. Maybe we just can't imagine that "Microhoo" is dead and done and pray that it's ready to stage a Lazarus-like revival.

A late afternoon report in TechCrunch reports ...

Colliding worlds: RIM and Apple

Charles Cooper — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:11:00 GMT

I once asked Steve Jobs why Apple was so indifferent toward corporate customers. At the time, big companies were in the beginning stages of one of their periodic PC upgrade cycles, leaving Dell virtually alone to clean up.

So, didn't it make sense to more aggressively pursue that business? ...

Living with Internet trolls: Get used to it

Charles Cooper — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:20:00 GMT

Credit Jim Brady for speaking truthfully about a controversy even though he's never going to win in the court of cyber opinion.

In an interview with my colleague Greg Sandoval, Brady, who is the executive editor of the Washingtonpost.com, suggested that online anonymity can foster abusive, locker room ...