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Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'

Chris Dawson thinks this: If you don't like buying online products only to have them remotely deleted without so much as a "have a nice day," ... Don't buy a bloody Kindle! Chris thinks that Amazon's terms of service create...

Tags: Lawsuit, Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Chris Dawson, Chris, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Weekend Stuff: Twittering houses and eco reporting

Some weeks back I met James Governor, Chris Dalby and Mark Charmer in London. James will be well known to some readers as the brash, outspoken industry analyst who has branched into eco issues with Greenmonk. Chris is a geek who has a house that Tweets (see 1...

Tags: Video, Consulting, Chris, Corporate Communications, Mice, Outsourcing, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Creating unified strategy to cross the IT / business chasm

Many IT failures ultimately arise from so-called gaps, or misalignments, between business and technical groups inside an organization. Here's how to avoid those problems. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Information Technology, Chris, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Define 'enterprise mashup' and win a $50 gift card

In this space, we argue a lot about definitions or lack thereof of terms and buzzwords, so it's refreshing to see that someone is willing to ante up a reward for a good, working definition of at least one emerging term. Chris Warner over at JackBe just...

Tags: Gift Card, Enterprise Mashup, Chris, Web 2.0, Internet, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Should your email live in the cloud?

Should your email live in the cloud? Colleague Chris Voce and I have written a pair of reports to answer that question from the perspectives of an information and knowledge management professional and an infrastructure and operations professional. For many firms, the answer is "yes," certainly for...

Tags: Chris, E-mail, Online Communications, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2009-01-12

The first rule of Apple App Store is - you do not talk about Apple App Store

Apple is using NDAs to gag developers from revealing the reason why their applications were rejected from the App Store. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Developer, Apple Inc., Chris, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-09-25

A robotic chef for your kitchen?

The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...

Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone on way; here's a peek

On his website, Asterisk developer Chris Carey posts an interesting preview of something he is building called Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone. Chris says Voicemail for iPhone will allow you to check your voicemail messages on your house or business line from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Chris, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Web Site Development, Open Source, Telecommunications, Management, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Flickr Photo Search 1.01 (Windows)

Flickr Photo Search is a gadget that will allow you to make searches on the Flickr Website from your desktop or Vista Sidebar. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Flickr, Photograph, Chris, Flickr Photo Search, Microsoft Windows, Web Site Development, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

Software downloads 2007-12-18

Can Burt Reynolds inspire lust for Michael Dell's products?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk takes a surreal tour of Dell's Star Power holiday shopping Web site featuring Burt Reynolds and other celebrities. If you searched the Web for the next month, how many times do you think you’d find the words "Michael," "Dell" and "lust" in the...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Chris, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Branding, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk writes that the greatest commercial battle currently is between the ad and the algorithm, between predictability and "ticklability." Facebook needs to figure out how to make its users feel like they aren't being sold up the river. Even when you go to...

Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Banking, Chris, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Technology finally turns fantasy into reality

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk has found the perfect mashing of technology, fantasy and reality to fulfill his dream of owning a sports franchise. There are probably enough readers of this site who, bored with their jobs, their sniveling, ignorant bosses and the fact that none of their...

Tags: Team, Fantasy, Director, Ebbsfleet United, Chris, Team Management, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Is God on technology's side? Or is it the other way around?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk finds that the Web accommodates all kinds of bloggers, including a nun who says she is "wildly enthusiastic about our mission of putting communications technology at the service of the Gospel." One of the more rewarding things about the Web is that...

Tags: Web, Bible, Technology, God, Sister Anne, Chris, Channel Management, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Google and the 'American Idol' creator: The secret tapes

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk considers what Google and Idol creator and entertainment impresario Simon Fuller might be cooking up that could revolutionize TV. It has been revealed that Google has been meeting with Simon Fuller, he of the Spice Girls, David Beckham and "American Idol," amongst others,...

Tags: Google Inc., Winner, TV, Entertainment, Chris Matyszczyk, BRIN, Brinny, SoYouThinkYou'veGotTheSpiceToBeAGoogIdol.com, Chris, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing

Blog posts 2007-11-12

If you don't like a Facebook advertiser, defriend them

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk has spent years creating award-winning advertisements to motivate buyers. Facebook's ad platform simply reaffirms that individuals are media. Everything is now a pair of boxer’s shorts. Even Facebook. When Mike Tyson was around those shorts, if they had a...

Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Brand, Advertiser, Chris, Branding, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-08

The computer orgasm. Is it real or is everyone just faking it?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk finds it odd that nearly a third of single Americans feel that the Internet is “sufficient companionship” and about the same percentage of young Americans would sell their name for a piffling $100,000. Research shows that there are basically only two types of...

Tags: Men, Survey, Computer, Chris, Gender And Diversity, Internet, Marketing Research, E-mail, Human Resources, Marketing, Online Communications, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-02

Why the titans of tech should start playing ball

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk yearns for the application of tech entrepreneurship to moribund sports franchises, following in the fancy footsteps of Mark Cuban. After all, sports is a social network of extraordinary proportions... “I’d run any company; it’s completely irrelevant to me. It’s really about this drive...

Tags: Bay Area, Champaign, Chris, Dan Farber, Gentleman, Management, Team, Team Management

Blog posts 2007-10-30

A big untapped social network opportunity

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk investigates the soft underbelly of Web culture. As Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore will tell you, there is no greater potential money-spinner in the US today than health. We all get sick. So there's always some sicko who wants to make a...

Tags: Network, Health Care, Geek, FatGeeks.com, Chris, Vertical Industries, Social Networking, Benefits, Healthcare, Channel Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Management, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-10-26

The tech world mourns the demise of Nerd Blossom

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk shares his thoughts on Mark Cuban's rumba and his exit from the "Dancing with the Stars" competition. In the end, as so many in the tech world before him, he couldn't do sexy. Mark Cuban was voted off ABC's...

Tags: Mark Cuban, Tech World, Chris, Professional Development, Strategy, Career, Management, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Are faux-Zuckerbergs a threat to corporate harmony?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk wonders whether Generation Y is Cartesian with a twist: I think, therefore I am great. I had dinner with someone significant in the tech world the other day. Desdemona (guess what, not her real name) had a problem she wanted to share with...

Tags: Dinner, Advertisement, Harmony, Chris, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-22