Sprint and T-Mobile Merger?

Rumors are going around about the possible acquisition of Sprint-Nextel by the parent company of T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, which recently merged T-Mobile UK and Orange UK to be the leading UK carrier. Both Sprint and T-Mobile have been losing subscribers due to the intense competition between the iPhone, available on AT&T, and the BlackBerry, available on Verizon. Let’s take a closer look. >>>

Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 5)

SM: “The Reader” was a commercially successful art movie.

RM: Yes. Also a British film. I think it was commercially successful and it was a beautiful film. I thought that “Julie & Julia” was a wonderful light comedy with a great deal of sophistication. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Infineon, Close Up

Nalini Kumar Muappala reports on the latest happenings at Infineon. Click on the full article for the rest of this week’s posts. >>>

Trademarks and Other Hazards: “About Jenga” (Part 2)

By Guest Author Leslie Scott

[Leslie Scott, author of “About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game that Became a Household Name”, continues her series with a discussion of a sometimes difficult but often unavoidable process that many entrepreneurs face: registering trademarks.]

Following Jenga, although most of the games I produced were published through my own company, Oxford Games Ltd, my business partner, Sara Finch,  and I designed and published many games on commission for a wide variety of venerable institutions, and successful businesses. >>>

Infineon (Part 4): Wireless Strategy And Outlook

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala

Infineon is in an enviable position with four of the top five handset makers as customers. Déjà vu? You recently heard it in this space in the context of ST-Ericsson. However, in addition to the above, Infineon also supplies to Apple and RIM – the two smartphone makers on a roll even in this year’s market turmoil. Sure, Infineon only provides a few parts to a just a few of the devices coming out of these vendors. But it has the reach to coax the big guns into buying exciting parts and solutions it can offer in the future. Infineon should leverage this reach. >>>

Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 4)

SM: I don’t have any disagreement that the human condition is universal. What is it that these other cultures can learn from the craft that Hollywood seems to have mastered to build their own film industries? Bollywood is unpalatable for anyone outside of a segment of the Indian consumer base.

RM: Let me mention two filmmakers. Satyajit Ray and Zhang Yimou. Ray is the Ingmar Bergman of India, and nobody in India knows who he is. >>>

Copyright and Cultural Heritage: “About Jenga” (Part 1)

By Guest Author Leslie Scott

[Many readers may have been surprised to learn in my recent interview with Henk Rogers that the rights to Tetris were originally owned by the Russian Ministry of Software and that it was no easy task for Rogers to obtain them. But of course all games, whether high-tech, low-tech or somewhere in between, are serious business. Leslie Scott, creator of the popular game Jenga and author of “About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game that Became a Household Name”, kicks off a series of excerpts from her book with some thoughts on the complex maze of copyright issues.]

When we devised and published Ex Libris: The Game of First Lines and Last Words for the Bodleian and the British libraries, my business partner, Sara Finch, and I had a number of interesting encounters with copyright. >>>

Infineon (Part 3): Holes In Wireless Portfolio

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala

In the previous post, we looked at Infineon’s strengths in wireless. However, Infineon’s portfolio is still incomplete in the area of connectivity solutions, which are playing a major role in the convergence trend. >>>