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Some counterpoints to your trolling.... (found simply by searching "blackberry ltd" on Google News):

• Blackberry Handset Sales Rising
• Blackberry in Catbird Seat as Encrypted Messaging Enters Mainstream
• BlackBerry Wins Gold in Best in Biz Awards 2014 International
• Blackberry Q2 Sales Rising
• Blackberry shares lead TSX
• BlackBerry nabs ‘perfect match’ in Germany’s Secusmart, burnishing anti-spying security credentials
• Blackberry Receives DISA Approval for Multi-Platform Management
• The top bullish move of Wynnefield Capital was boosting stake in BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ:BBRY) by over 60%

The average American - including all those billionaires - has less than $6000. http://finance.zacks.com/much-money-average-american-family-savings-7304.html

That is affected greatly by the fact that there really aren't a whole lot of billionaires

What the fuck would you have fucking done if your fucking roof had fucking leaked?

There's no need for this level of rage. Take it down several notches, please; we can be civil in disagreement.

I fucking am having a fucking civil fucking disagreement.
You should fucking see what I fucking type when I'm being fucking disagreeable, fucker.

Who doesn't save up at least a tiny bit of money (say 3 months salary) in case of a fucking emergency?

Most of America, it turns out.

Nearly half of America has less than $500 saved. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/americans-savings-500_n_2003285.html

The average American - including all those billionaires - has less than $6000. http://finance.zacks.com/much-money-average-american-family-savings-7304.html

What the fuck would you have fucking done if your fucking roof had fucking leaked?

There's no need for this level of rage. Take it down several notches, please; we can be civil in disagreement.

I was told I can could get Linux on a phone a couple of years ago. I assumed that meant it would be impervious to malware, that I'd have to edit text files using a text mode editor, that I'd have to spend hours tweaking the window manager just to get a GUI, and that I'd have to recompile the kernel to enable new features.

I don't see why you are still waiting. The phone was the Nokia 900 which was released in November 2009 and was followed by the Nokia N9 (September 2011). Sadly the phone line was killed when Nokia entered an alliance with Microsoft. The decision to switch from a linux phone to windows phone has effectively doomed the company as seen by the falling share price, to the point where Nokia is rated by Moody's as junk.

Microsoft needs Nokia more than Nokia needs Microsoft.

This is not true. Microsoft spins off many billions of profit each year, mainly from Windows and Office. They could dump 5 billion a year into mobile just to keep the dream alive. They pour something like 2 billion a year just into Bing and their other online efforts. They could keep this up forever. I don't think doing so is going to do them any good, but they can.

Sendo had the same problem. It didn't work out well for them.

While doing research for this comment (sad but true, I do research for /. comments as if I were an actual credible analyst) I went to look at Nokia's financial statements to see how long they could hold out with a failing smartphone business. What I found is a grand surprise: I find that Nokia has been hugely bulking up the cash portion of their balance sheet. They now have $16B cash and equivalents - a level they haven't seen since 2008 when their market cap was 3x what it is now (Currently $20B), and $4B more cash than they had a year ago. The annual run rate on last quarter's profits is $10B. That means less cash you could buy the Nokia business for $4B net of cash - patents, employees, hardware, manufacturing, real estate, the whole magilla. This brings the price of Nokia's earnings as a business (about $10B/year) less cash to about 40 cents. For 40 cents a buyer could buy $1/yr of profits. $1 buys what the company is accumulating in cash each year. That's a screaming deal - and with that much cash to leverage lots of the '80's LBO kings could get financing on that deal. It's a hell of a lot better deal than $8B for Skype, who never made any profits ever.

After reflecting on the above paragraph, TFA becomes plausible. Somebody's probably buying Nokia because at this price it's like buying a money tree at the price of five months' harvest. I see that you can buy a call option with a 7/21/2012 strike price of $6 for $.71, or the in-the-money $5 call for $1.14. Both of these look like a good deal to me, and I'd probably take the in-the-money one in case there was no bidding war. Naturally takeovers usually buy a company at a premium over the day's stock price.

I am not an investment advisor - especially not yours. I don't hold a position in any of these companies. This is just for fun.

If Google can buy Moto Mobi and get away with it, why can't Microsoft buy Nokia - especially when it's such a screaming deal?

Despite what the market thinks of Elop's plans (and my own prognostications) his austerity program does seem to be bearing fruit even if his strategic choices seem to be lacking.

How can PC be in a downward trend when sales of PCs continue to grow (yes, even if the growth is less than estimates)? Oh right, it's not.

Nokia is facing heat at both ends of the price spectrum.

Although it continues to rank number one among handheld producers, it holds on primarily because of its dominance at the low end, where it faces significant challenges from Chinese competitors who make smaller, lighter, quicker, more capable phones at competitive prices.

http://nowtnews.com/05805/nokia-and-hp-get-back-in-the-game/

Fortunately the new CEO seems to get it. Unfortunately, he seems to believe that the answer is to team up with Microsoft. The market isn't impressed.

Not just on a holiday, Apple releases their quarterly earnings statement tomorrow. Obviously they know it will be a big quarter which will further cushion the impact. As I said earlier in the thread, I suspect Jobs returning to his job after his liver transplant was just to appease wall street and the media, and that he hasn't been doing his full work week for some time.

"11/22/2010 - CFM International, a 50/50 joint venture between General Electric Co (GE - Analyst Report) and French company Snecma, has obtained contracts worth $2.1 billion for supply of engines and services to Air China, China Eastern Airlines and the HNA Group." http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/43662/GE+Wins+China+Aviation+Deals

If you google 'Unisys', the first result is an article saying that Profit Tanks at Unisys Corporation

Apparently their year-over-year profits are down 54%, to $21 million from over $50 million a year ago, and their Technology sector revenue declined 31%. Apparently this is driven by a lack of demand for their ClearPath server line.

So by pumping this 'intenet kill switch' idea, it may be that they expect to be first in line to implement it, and get some handsome profits from the taxpayer pie in the bargain.

This is about as believable as Bill Gates and other tech leaders trumpeting that there were not enough skilled US IT workers a few years back. Sure there were, just not at the immigrant prices that Gates and others wanted to pay. Here's a video from a recruiter seminar instructing recruiters on how not to find qualified American applicants for jobs while putting in the legally required advertisements. Look for the speaker stating at about 1:44 into the video that "our goal here is clearly not to find a qualified and interested US worker".

Of course corporations are going to release self-serving announcements like this -- it's just fulfilling their legal mandate to act in the best interests of their shareholders. In other news, the sky is blue.

OK, there have been any number of posts saying how this lawsuit is some kind of scam by SCO insiders.

Initially the strategy was probably to get bought out by IBM. Plan B seems to be hype the lawsuit, ride shareprice up and sell-out at a healthy profit, although this seems to carry a pretty hefty regulatory risk for the principals unless they can spin out their death spiral long enough for their recent transactions to pass beyond the 9-month window for an SEC investigation once they declare bankruptcy (maybe there's a deep, dark Plan C - acquisition by Somebody Else to forestall an SEC investigation).

Now my thinking is that if there was enough money in the market shorting SCOX, this would undercut the lawsuit hype and crash the company price faster than the the SCO board were anticipating, forcing them to bail early and exposing them to the SEC investigation (or fall back to Plan C if such a thing exists). A nice side-effect being that the holders of the short contracts on SCOX would make a profit on the deal.

So the question is: what kind of money would move the market against SCOX's pump'n'dump operation and could the serried ranks of /.ers mobilise it?

"I need put options... lots of put options."

Or is the garderine herd of day-traders too large a stampede to turn in this way? Looking at SCOX's history the volumes have gone gangbusters in the last four weeks or so. In which case we fall back to our Plan B and which is to short the stock for fun (and profit!!!!) and watch them bleed out - anyone care to opine what kind of timeframe would make sense for a put contract if this thing is actually going to court?

Regards
Luke