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- Microsoft's $300 million 'consumer product blitz' inches closer
- What kinds of products will Microsoft be pushing when it launches its new $200 million to $300 million consumer-product ad campaign in early 2008? AdAge has reported that Microsoft has narrowed its search for an agency to handle creative for the forthcoming "consumer-products blitz" to two: MDC...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., AdAge, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Operating Systems, Business Structures, Handhelds, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- Can Google, Fox turn YouTube, MySpace buzz into cash?
- Does a million plus views of a corporate marketing “viral film” at YouTube translate into a guaranteed brand touchdown?AdAge says "Better ROI from YouTube Video Than SuperBowl Spot,” referencing “Dove Evolution.”Smirnoff’s “Tea Partay,” another proud corporate marketing member of the YouTube million plus views club, has not yielded SuperBowl size ROI, according...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Google Inc., AdAge, MySpace, YouTube Inc., ROI, Mary Bermel, Hewlett-Packard Co., Fran Kelly, video
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
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- Question about Gov. Sarah Palin
- Question about Gov. Sarah PalinI searched online and got on the site with this linkhttp://www.state.ak.us/but could not get to anywhere when I clicked on her image to go to that page, eitherBlame ObamaObama's campaign team, probably caught by surprise at this announcement, are probably trying to dig up whatever dirt...
- Tags: Branding, GUESS IT, Sarah Palin, Obama, Hillary, GOP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Interactive agencies, RIAs, and the advertising market
- There's a pretty good article in AdAge today about the online display market and how it isn't gaining as much traction as all of the hype would assume. In fact, with the economy starting to decline, AdAge says that the display market is getting hit harder than traditional media. The...
- Tags: Advertisement, Nike Inc., Agency, Media, Rich Internet Application, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Survey: 39 percent of iPhone 3G buyers own PCs
- Survey: 39 percent of iPhone 3G buyers own PCsLooking at the data another way,there were fewer Mac owners getting iPhone 3G's than the original iPhones. Not just %, but raw number. Wonder what conclusions could be drawn from that?Good luck with the corporate TrojanYeah I don't see this being any...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Desktops, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G buyer, 3G, survey, Apple Inc., PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- The customer is not always right
- How many times have you heard the old adage, "The customer is always right"? If you're like me you just took it as an axiom, something that was beyond questioning. I think it's time for software developers and project managers to start questioning it. Now, I'm not...
- Tags: Google Inc., Result, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy too
- Another day another Carl Icahn to Roy Bostock letter. In this installment, our activist billionaire is annoyed by the Yahoo chairman's terse response to his previous letter. Hmm. Maybe these folks should just pick up the damn phone. Anyway, here's the letter. You can...
- Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Plan, Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Dumbing down our math tests?
- Dumbing down our math tests?Two factors at work.One, the "we mustn't make anyone feel bad" syndrome.And, two, the old adage: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. You and I both know there's more than a little truth in that saying.Combine the two, mix in a little union, and...
- Tags: Dumbing Down, math test, education
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Adding up Sun's pieces
- Here's a comment from last week by occasional contributor Storm14k: Sleeping with the enemy... Is what has kept MS in its position so far. How is MS anything but an enemy to Sun? Why work with the company...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Development Tools, Sales, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Expensive certification requirements hurt recruiting
- Not everyone is cut out to be a teacher. It's a demanding job, summers off or not, and it helps to like kids. However, there are many instances when students can really benefit from teachers who have worked in private industry. This isn't the old adage, those...
- Tags: Education, Recruiting, Teacher, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?)
- (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?)That's a wrap!Former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson once did a comedy spot where he talked about problems opening wrappers for cookies, etc. The joke was, *I* know how to open these! He pulled out a hammer and hit the bag.To his surprise...
- Tags: photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- FCC sure we're headed to Hell, ass first
- WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- ABC is appealing the Federal Communications Commission's decision to fine the Walt Disney network and 45 of its stations a total of $1,237,500 for airing scenes of a woman's buttocks on a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue." Five years after the fact, the FCC is fining...
- Tags: FCC, Media, Federal Government, Government, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- Velocity Micro's Windows Home Server for power users
- Velocity Micro's Windows Home Server for power usersPerformance justification questionableIt's interesting that the individual from the Velociy Micro does not know that the Windows Home Server is only able to performe a single backup at a time, or that streaming to several PC's at once is limited by the network...
- Tags: server, Microsoft Windows, WHS File, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, RAID 5, Hewlett-Packard Co., storage, Velocity, Velocity Micro
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- With friends like these... how can Seesmic fail?
- Having secured $5.5 million of funding from investment group Atomico (Skype's Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and co.), Loic Le Meur admits he didn't need the money. And yet he's enlisted a further twelve individual backers for his new startup Seesmic -- which has been described as "Twitter for video" --...
- Tags: Board, Connection, Image, Investor, Seesmic, Pendants, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Will Vista SP1 finally make the upgrade worth it?
- Will Vista SP1 finally make the upgrade worth it?Option Missing and an ideaMy company buys the PCs/Laptops with no OS, then blow in either XP or Linux Monta Vista Flavor. That said, here is an idea for you. You obviously have a bunch of windows machine, which means...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, desktop, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, SP1
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- An information existence theorem for the internet age
- An information existence theorem for the internet ageWimpsEarlier this year I went to look up some property records in New Mexico. If Lethbridge is feeling sorry for themselves, they can take a trip to Santa Fe, where the property ownership goes back four hundred years through several changes of...
- Tags: information existence, Lethbridge, property record, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Could Amazon be a threat to Apple and the iPod?
- Could Amazon be a threat to Apple and the iPod?No, Amazon is no threat to AppleWake me when Amazon starts advertising on TV.I'm still astounded that Apple is the [b]only[/b] one that figured out that you have to advertise your commodity products before people will buy your commodity products.All Amazon...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, BitTorrent P2P, Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., music, iPODS
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- Poll: Businesses in U.S. warm to Vista
- Poll: Businesses in U.S. warm to VistaWhen's the next version out?The way things are going here the next version of Windows will be out before we can get rid of or replace the software that is holding us back from Vista.As said before and by othersunless they switch to a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, way thing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Yes, the MacBook Air is light. But so what-Dell XPS is a better deal on price
- Yes, the MacBook Air is light. But so what-Dell XPS is a better deal on priceYawn.And a desktop is an even better deal. There's more to value than sticker price.Evaluation criteriaYou're evaluating on price and not on weight. Shaving that extra pound off the box is going to increase...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, what-Dell XPS i
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
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