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Bing vs. Bing: Pitching To Be Its Pitchman?

Bing vs. Bing: Pitching To Be Its Pitchman?Mr. Bing's OfferIn actuality, we have already reached out to the mildly irritated Mr. Bing in an attempt to strike a deal. Or something. And we're sending cigars as a peace offering. Altho I kept one back for myself.--Stefanhttp://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2009/05/28/a-letter-to-bing.aspxRE: Bing...

Tags: Linux, Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, Bing, Be Its Pitchman

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

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News to know: Windows 7; Google Wave in enterprise; SaaS in Europe; Wordcamp;

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Mager: Live: Wordcamp 2009 Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: No more three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter Edition Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft sees sense,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Bing vs. Bing: Pitching To Be Its Pitchman?

You had to expect it. The personage who writes the Bing blog and column for Fortune is "moderately outraged" by Microsoft's use of his pen name as the name of its latest search engine. Gil Schwartz, the executive vice...

Tags: Advertisement, Search Engine, Blog, Microsoft Corp., Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Could your software CEO be a TV pitchman? Benioff might...

Salesforce's CEO & Billy Mays - the ultimate pitch team! satire I (and 600 others) attended the recent Salesforce.com event here in Chicago. Salesforce was promoting its platform-as-a-service PaaS, Force.com. At these events, the different talks have their own highlights but, for me, I...

Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., PaaS, TV, Force.com, Marc, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-07

The Microsoft ads are working

The Microsoft ads are workingThat's BSROI and TCO compared to what???the iDiots have struck again!!Oops !NTStupid consumers ;)[i]"I don?t care about the Macs. Whatever. We have a Mac base in many of our schools that is serving us well and that we have on lease for another three years. I...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Desktops, Microsoft AD, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp., TCO, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

Steve's Apple: 35,000 "wicked smart" people will keep things humming

Back in 1997, Apple was a company in turmoil. It was losing money. Its stock was at an all-time low. And it had experienced several failed attempts to improve the Mac operating system. Fast-forward to today and Apple is a brand name recognized around the globe for...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Steve, Digital Music, Digital Media, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-22

Ghost Story: Fear of Microsoft Fades

As Halloween fast approaches, Apple is producing more good-natured fun, poking fun at Microsoft's decision to end the use of Vista as the name of its Windows operating system for PCs. It probably didn't cost much to produce the latest...

Tags: Operating System, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Internet, Software, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-10-30

Seinfeld to host the Microsoft Makeover

Finally, Microsoft is responding to the long-running "Mac vs PC" advertising campaign and they're tapping Jerry Seinfeld to be the pitchman. According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft's $300 million campaign is kicking off with a $10 million bit with Seinfeld. It's too early to say whether...

Tags: Advertisement, Campaign, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-21