Robin Majumdar 2.0

HP has a pretty tasty promotion running right now with $349 on the HP Pavilion dv9700t notebook - this is a great laptop (I’ve handled it in store on a few occasions) and yes, this coming from a long time fan of Dell - yes I still love Dell, but it’s been a love-hate relationship with their business notebook machines.

The dv9700t is one of those really well-built and functional notebooks, a few of the things I like:
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Now I wish I would have (carefully) listened to his words a bit more attentively back in ‘94.

An attempt to push through significant levies on digital music players (up to CAN$75 per device) has been quashed by Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal. Innovators and consumers rejoice.

This is good news … and as someone who has spent 5 figures on a music collection over the last 20 years (DJ period in my life) I find it ludicrous to be arbitrarily taxed for something that presumes my guilt!

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No credit card needed either so they can’t auto-renew you…. it ends Monday night at 23h59 pacific time so even later for us guys (and gals) on the East Coast.

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Well, it’s not really a surprise that IBM and Cognos finally jointly confirmed the acquisition of Cognos by the Armonk, New York giant in IT services.

The deal was for “roughly” $5 billion or $58 USD per Cognos share. Nice arbitrage play on the plumetting US dollar .. kudos to the IBM accounting strategists

Cognos is one of those great Canadian success stories and it’s a bittersweet pill to see it go (like so many others) to foreign ownership. Their business intelligence products are Tier 1 quality.

edit: That title should reach “nears acquisition” and not “closes acquisition” since officially this is just an offer… mind you at a 15% premium on the stock price!