YouTube Video Shows Flash And HTML5 On Blackberry Playbook

RIM posted a video on YouTube today showing off Flash and HTML5 on the Blackberry Playbook, thus proving that Flash can run on their device. But the question is what the battery life is as according to “El Jobso” the battery life of any device that runs Flash sucks.There’s other things that the video touches upon, so hit the video to see for yourself:

Motorola Splits Itself In Two…I See One Half Dying

Motorola today split itself into two halves. The more volatile consumer cell phone business is now called Motorola Mobility. While the much more stable commercially focused radio, barcode scanner, and cellular network business is now Motorola Solutions. Both are trading as separate entities on the NYSE. Both of which were up today. So, why do I think that one half will die? When it comes to the cell phone business, Apple and to a lesser extent RIM and anyone who makes an Android phone have already shoved Motorola out of the market. Face it, the high water mark for Motorola was the flip phone. It’s been all downhill from that point onwards and is facing a slow death. The Motorola Solutions half is much more stable from a business perspective, so I think that will be around for a long time. So perhaps this is an easy way for Motorola to get rid of a business that would eventually kill it outright.

We’ll see in a year or two. But I think I’ll be right on this one.

2010 In Review…. Rogers Has Some Work To Do…

I’m a stats sort of guy. So now that we’re two days into the new year, I decided to run the stats on all the posts that I posted in 2010 to see what was really popular last year. Here’s what I came up with:

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BREAKING NEWS: Rogers Plans To Change The Quick Start Guide February 2010
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Reaction To Rogers New Quickstart Menu Seems To Be Negative…. Why? [UPDATED] January 2010
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Parallels Desktop 5 Vs. VMware Fusion 3: Fight! November 2009
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How To Remove “Crapware” From Your PC March 2008
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Rogers Introducing “Quick Start Menu” For Digital Cable Customers December 2009
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What does this say? Seeing as three of the five most popular posts on this blog had to do with Canadian telco Rogers, and those posts were about the now infamous Quick Start Guide that caused them negative press. The circus that surrounded the Quick Start Guide is just the tip of the iceberg as they had other issues such as their overly aggressive traffic management system, their issues with Chatr to name a couple.  To be fair, the have a group of people who do nothing but try to get their message to bloggers like me. But it really doesn’t help their cause when their negative stories outdraw their positive stories on this blog by several orders of magnitude.

I’m no P.R. expert, but I’d say that Rogers has some work to do with making their public image much better. Here’s hoping they do a better job of that in 2011.