Category Archives: Blogs

The Restructuring of All About Nortel

By Mark Evans | Published: June 24, 2009

After much thought and analysis, I’ve decided to follow the Mike Z. business approach by placing All About Nortel in blog-ruptcy protection. Although disappointing, the rapid and troubling gutting of Nortel has left me no choice but to consider strategic options for AAN’s future and its single shareholder/creditor (aka me). At best, AAN may have six [...]

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John Roese’s New Blog

By Mark Evans | Published: May 6, 2009

If you’re interested in keeping up with the thoughts of ex-Nortel chief technology officer John Roese, he has a new blog called The ICT Optimist. Technorati Tags: john roese, nortel

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Nortel Adds Another Blog

By Mark Evans | Published: March 7, 2009

Nortel’s social media efforts took another step forward earlier this week with the official launch of a new blog, Nortel Greenroots. Written by Wilson Korol, Greenroots is “devoted to all things green with respect to our company and industry”. The fact Nortel launched a “green” blog is not surprising given how green has played a [...]

Also posted in Social Media | Tagged blog, bo gowan, Nortel | 65 Comments

What Could Have Been: Nortel-Huawei JV

By Mark Evans | Published: January 25, 2009

If you look back over the past decade, Nortel has made a series of strategic mistakes – ranging from multi-billion dollar acquisitions that bombed to asset sales that failed to materialize at the right time to questionable CEO hirings. On the list of what could have been is a proposed joint venture between Nortel and Huawei [...]

Also posted in Technology | 39 Comments

An Update on Comments

By Mark Evans | Published: January 18, 2009

I’ve received a few e-mails about comments. In particular, people have asked about a disconnect between the number of comments that appear beneath a post, and the actual number of comments that exist. The gap happens because Disqus, the comment system used by AAN, immediately counts every comment made. However, the comments don’t appear until I’ve [...]

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Twitter Warning!

By Mark Evans | Published: January 6, 2009

Over the past few days, Twitter has been under attaching from phishing scams and hackers. It may explain why you see a box upon visiting AAN that asks for your Twitter user name and password. DO NOT provide any information. Instead, click “cancel”. I’m trying to figure out what’s happening. Update: I think I discovered the problem. It [...]

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