Freescale: Motorola's Terrible Timing

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Terrible timing

Terrible timing 12/27/2004 04:34 AM
USA Today Dec 27 2004 7:02AM GMT

Motorola's Freescale Taps Texas Shop

Motorola's Freescale Taps Texas Shop 04/15/2004 09:05 PM
Adweek Online Apr 16 2004 1:11AM GMT

Motorola's Freescale Parts With Hill,
Holliday

Motorola's Freescale Parts With Hill,
Holliday 04/15/2004 04:55 PM
Adweek Online Apr 15 2004 8:42PM GMT

Motorola's Freescale unit sales in line

Motorola's Freescale unit sales in line 09/07/2004 12:42 PM
ChicagoBusiness.com Sep 7 2004 4:01PM GMT

The Terrible Teens

The Terrible Teens 06/18/2004 01:01 PM
Got any in your household? It's time to have "The Talk" -- the money talk, that is.

Terrible hunger

Terrible hunger 03/30/2005 02:47 PM
In plain and poignant language, Judith Moore's new memoir, "Fat Girl," chronicles her youth as an obese child starved of love.

Terrible news

Terrible news 07/08/2004 08:31 AM
Ted Knight, Chevy Chase and now Will Ferrell have all spoofed TV news. But it's their real-life counterparts who are really funny.

A terrible, buggy, monster.

A terrible, buggy, monster. 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

I found this very interesting read on the history of AWT, Swing, and SWT fom an undisclosed source via Roller user Jon Lipsky's blog. Here is a tasty excerpt:

Alan Williamson's mysterious "source close to IBM": At IBM we hated Swing from day one. Big, buggy, and looks [like] crap. Initially our tools such as VisualAge for Java were all written in Smalltalk ( which used native widgets ) so when we started to migrate these to a Java codebase we need a widget set. All of the IBM developers are the same crowd who used to work with Smalltalk, and we reluctantly under management orders built our WebSphere Studio tools using Swing. It was a terrible, buggy, monster. In our initial previews when it was demo'd against Microsoft Visual Studio products all our users hated it just because of how it looked, never mind what it let you do. Most shoppers don't like to get in car that looks and smells terrible, even if it does have a nice engine.

UPDATE: Jon Lipsky was contacted by somebody at Sun who claims there are many and major inaccuracies in the above story.

Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible

Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible 09/10/2004 10:54 AM
How will companies and investors fare if the storm spawns moderate damage?

_vti...Very Terrible Idea?

_vti...Very Terrible Idea? 09/08/2004 12:58 PM

Vermeer Technologies Gives Birth To FrontPage: Joe's mention of "FrontPage crap" in his Cy gwin post got me remembering the joy of having "_vti" directories scattered across my hard drive when working with the unabashed sucking that was early versions of FrontPage. (I was issued FrontPage 1.1 on five floppies by Microsoft back when I was a beta-tester for MSN.)

Did you ever wonder where the "vti" prefix came from? Why those letters? Turns out they stood for "Vermeer Technologies Incorporated" which was the company that built FrontPage originally. They were the ones who came up with the idea of "WebBots" and "Server Extensions."

Microsoft bought Vermeer and its "Critically Acclaimed Visual Client-Server Web Publishing Tool" in January 1996 for $130-some-odd million. Here's the press release. As near as I can tell, Vermeer dropped off the face of the Earth after being acquired — they were simply absorbed into the Borg cube.

And here's a review of FrontPage from November 1995, just before they were acquired.

Vermeer's FrontPage Editor is an excellent WYSIWYG HTML editor with a built-in to-do list that keeps track of necessary changes to your Web pages. The only thing lacking is support for tables, which is planned for the next version [...]

No table support? We've come so far.

If this story interests you, the guy who founded Vermeer wrote a book about it: High Stakes, No Prisoners.

Charles Ferguson's hilarious, hard-boiled journey into the heart of high-tech darkness has become the signal book of the start-up generation. Ferguson took a good idea, started a company, and sold it to Microsoft for $133 million — all in less than two years. High Stakes, No Prisoners is both a blistering inside account of how he did it and a brilliant tour of the brutally competitive and utterly unique world of Silicon Valley.

You have to love the title of the first reader review: "If he's so smart, why isn't he richer?" I can't find any reference to what Ferguson is doing today.

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A war's terrible legacy

A war's terrible legacy 02/01/2005 10:02 PM
Sexual violence continues in the Congo -- according to Amnesty International, at least 40,000 women in the country have been raped in the past six years.

Cable Operators Have Terrible Wi-Fi
Plans

Cable Operators Have Terrible Wi-Fi
Plans 04/01/2005 04:57 PM

This trade-magazine article tries to show how cable operators are tied into Wi-Fi, but demonstrates their wrong-headed approach: The article surveys efforts by Comcast, Charter, and Time-Warner to offer their cable television subscribers some kind of Wi-Fi adjunct. But it's a lot of spotty, weird plans that don't bring enough locations or value.

Comcast partners with T-Mobile to discount the T-Mobile service, but as a Comcast subscriber, I can tell you I received a couple of coupons and virtually no information since about the partnership, which is more of a slightly discount off retail. If they wanted to do it right, they could pursue an SBC DSL/Wi-Fi promotion and offer a $20/month unlimited service plan--the same rate that T-Mobile only makes available to its cell subscribers. However, that might undercut T-Mobile cell market, and Comcast and T-Mobile aren't connected except through a partnership.

Time-Warner is installing Wi-Fi in a small number of random venues--the article makes it sound like quite a few, but the scale of "quite a few" is thousands now, not hundreds. The writer says that Time-Warner installs the service and sells minutes wholesale to the venue which then resells them at retail. Time-Warner Roadrunner cable subscribers get a small amount of free service in some locations.

Finally, Charter is reselling RemotePipes Wi-Fi footprint. They're an aggregator, but it's extremely difficult to understand their footprint from their Web site.

Bottom line: if this is the best they can do in response to SBC's DSL and Wi-Fi bundle, then we can expect the DSL churn rate in SBC territory to remain quite low.

Tsunami mother's terrible choice

Tsunami mother's terrible choice 12/31/2004 06:41 AM
Jillian Searle knew she could not hold on to both her children during Sunday's tsunami - and had to let go of one of them.

FastCompany's terrible linking policy

FastCompany's terrible linking policy 06/26/2004 06:15 AM
FastCompany -- the tech magazine for the new economy -- has a spectacularily clueless policy on linking, in which they expect people who want to link to their site to fax a permission form to their legal department! Imagine if this were enforceable: the Web that Fast Company has built its business upon would crumble into a billion individuated and unlinked pages.

Due to the large volume of requests we receive, we do not have a reciprocal linking program. However, if you like, you may link to us at no cost. This option requires the execution by you and Fastcompany.com of a one-page Web-linking agreement. Please download and sign the agreement and fax it to 617-738-5055, attn: G+J legal, Fastcompany.com. As soon as you receive back the agreement signed on behalf of Fastcompany.com, you may begin linking to our content.

Here's some of the spectacularily clueless "linking agreement" Fast Company thinks it can force linkers to sign off on:

For good and valuable consideration, effective upon the duly authorized signatures of Owner and G+J below (the "Effective Date"), G+J hereby grants to Owner a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to create a hyperlink from the Linking Site to Inc.com from the Effective Date, unless and until such permission is terminated by G+J upon notice to Owner, subject to the following terms and conditions.

Owner hereby represents and warrants that: (i) any content displayed on the Linking Site shall not infringe upon or misappropriate any third party intellectual property or other proprietary rights, shall not invade any third party rights of privacy or publicity, shall be free from any libelous or obscene material, shall be accurate, and shall not otherwise violate any applicable law, regulation or non-proprietary third party right; (ii) the Linking Site does not and will not contain any harmful software code or viruses; (iii) Owner has duly registered the domain name of the Linking Site with all applicable authorities and possesses all rights necessary to use such domain name; and (iv) Owner shall use its best efforts, including any and all then-available technology, to prevent Internet users from downloading any content from Inc.com.

There are a lot of stupid organizations that have policies like this, but very few of them have the close relationship to the Web that FC has. The disturbing thing here is that FC's credibity as an authority on the Web lends credence to this bizarre and damaging idea of needing permission to link. Link (Thanks, Jordon!)

A Terrible Thing to Waste a Mind

A Terrible Thing to Waste a Mind 07/06/2004 04:55 AM
In Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, you control a special agent who uses telekinetic powers to kill soldiers with the power of his mind alone. Unfortunately, your own brain won't get nearly as much of a workout. By Chris Kohler.

Terrible affair that General Slocum
explosion...

Terrible affair that General Slocum
explosion... 06/15/2004 09:24 PM
One hundred years ago today, 1,358 members of the Kleindeutschland, the German neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, boarded a chartered ferry named the General Slocum for a picnic excursion to Long Island. A fire broke out in the ship's hold while it cruised up the East River, the captain ran the vessel aground on the rocky shores of North Brother Island amid the swift currents of Hell Gate, and when it was all over 1,021 people (mainly women and children) had perished by drowning or from the fire, and it remained the worst single-day New York City disaster until 9/11.

Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible
coffee

Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible
coffee 07/30/2004 03:41 PM

I’ve been wanting a thermal carafe coffee maker for some time. The traditional drip coffee maker uses a hotplate to keep the coffee warm after brewing, but this causes the coffee to continuously brew in the pot. That results in bad coffee.

Recently when I was in Target, I noticed they had a number of thermal carafe coffee makers at prices ranging from $40-$60, so I picked one up. It turned out to be a huge mistake.

The albatross I bought is known as the Hamilton Beach Stay or Go Coffee Maker and every cup of coffee that comes out of it has a stale, oily taste. I can’t even bring myself to drink it.

documenting a terrible local news story
on bl0gs

documenting a terrible local news story
on bl0gs 05/12/2004 05:35 PM
"The Latest Cyber Craze!"

Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation

Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation 03/19/2005 03:09 AM
Here’s an idea: what if when I wrote weblog entries about General Motors, I included a special tag, a keyword tag, that let everyone who wanted to read blog entries about General Motors read my weblog article, without otherwise having to subscribe to my blog? Makes sense. Now, should it be “gm” or “GM” or “generalmotors” or “general motors” or “General Motors” or “GM Corporation” or … ? Therein lies the fundamental problem with Technorati…

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Chechnya - What drives the separatists
to commit such terrible outrages? By
Masha Gessen

Chechnya - What drives the separatists
to commit such terrible outrages? By
Masha Gessen 09/05/2004 03:04 PM
Chechnya - What drives the separatists to commit such terrible outrages? By Masha Gessen .. a history of Chechen

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Freescale IPO Getting Cheaper

Freescale IPO Getting Cheaper 07/15/2004 03:15 PM
TheStreet.com Jul 15 2004 7:35PM GMT

Motorola SPS Renamed "Freescale"

Motorola SPS Renamed "Freescale" 02/13/2004 11:50 PM
Motorola Inc. named its Semiconductor Products Sector "Freescale", in preparation for the unit's spinoff later this year.

Freescale M5282LITE Coldfire Dev Kit

Freescale M5282LITE Coldfire Dev Kit 03/22/2005 04:20 PM
An Electronic Design article reviews the Freescale M5282LITE development board which is based on the Freescale Coldfire. The article notes the similarities of the Coldfire to the older Motorola 68000 series of chips which are still popular with robots builders in boards like the Mini RoboMind. The $179 M5282LITE includes the Freescale MCF5282 CPU running at 66MHz with 16MB of DRAM and 2MB of Flash. It includes a 10/100 Ethernet port, DB-9 serial port, BDM/JTAG, 8 channel 10 bit queued A/D, SPI, I2C, CAN, 3 SCI UARTS, and two 4 channel GPT timers. The board can run uClinux and uses the GCC tool chain. See the spec sheet (PDF format) for more details. For a similar board, see the Intec WildFire that we reported on last month.

Freescale Can Ship UWB Chips

Freescale Can Ship UWB Chips 08/09/2004 12:53 PM
Motorola's Freescale spinoff, which includes the acquired XtremeSpectrum UWB developer, has FCC approval on its UWB chips: The company is saying that chips will ship almost immediately to OEMs, and that there may be early consumer products this Christmas that use ultrawideband (very short distance, high speed) wireless to connect video, audio, and other data among devices. Freescale uses the leading proposal in the IEEE 802.15.3a task group: the "classical" direct sequence version of UWB. The proposal has foundered in the IEEE process because the Multiband OFDM Alliance (MBOA)--led by Intel with dozens of other members--has decided to push forward with their incompatible version of UWB that they believe has more promise, especially for peripherals. The IEEE still hasn't approved Freescale's approach because MBOA and other members of the task group are denying the super-majority required to accept the proposal....

Motorola files for Freescale IPO

Motorola files for Freescale IPO 06/22/2004 04:30 AM
Sets a stock price range, but not a date

XML-RSS-Timing-1.05

XML-RSS-Timing-1.05 01/25/2004 05:46 AM

Bad timing for bug

Bad timing for bug 09/15/2004 12:25 AM
USA Today Sep 15 2004 4:33AM GMT

XML-RSS-Timing-1.04

XML-RSS-Timing-1.04 01/25/2004 05:46 AM

XML-RSS-Timing-1.03

XML-RSS-Timing-1.03 01/25/2004 05:46 AM

XML-RSS-Timing-1.06

XML-RSS-Timing-1.06 01/26/2004 04:45 AM

Bad Timing

Bad Timing 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
Continuing adventures with Time Warner Cable... ...

XML-RSS-Timing-1.07

XML-RSS-Timing-1.07 05/19/2004 06:08 PM

Timing is everything

Timing is everything 08/06/2004 11:08 AM
The arrest of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on July 25, days before the Democratic convention, was Pakistan's biggest terrorist collar since last year. Coincidence? Perhaps not.

Briefly: FCC approves Freescale
ultrawideband

Briefly: FCC approves Freescale
ultrawideband 08/11/2004 06:47 PM
roundup Plus: Fish tailing, off-roading hit cell phones...ATG acquires Primus Knowledge Solutions...Motorola may owe IRS extra $500 million.

Freescale to debut two new PowerPC
processors

Freescale to debut two new PowerPC
processors 08/18/2004 12:27 PM
Mac User Aug 18 2004 4:41PM GMT

Motorola to sell Freescale in two chunks
for $8.9bn

Motorola to sell Freescale in two chunks
for $8.9bn 06/26/2004 11:56 PM
Scotland on Sunday Online Jun 27 2004 4:19AM GMT

Freescale posts 328% Q1 income increase

Freescale posts 328% Q1 income increase 04/21/2004 03:21 AM
Motorola's chip division prepares to IPO

Motorola takes a hit on Freescale IPO
price

Motorola takes a hit on Freescale IPO
price 07/19/2004 04:48 AM
The Register Jul 19 2004 9:46AM GMT

Motorola Sets Freescale Loose

Motorola Sets Freescale Loose 06/23/2004 12:31 PM
The Freescale IPO timing is good for Motorola, less so for investors.
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