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U.S. hybrid car sales

Hybrid sales are way down this year compared to 2008 but a turnaround in July shows the curve heading upward for now. Helped along, no doubt, by "cash for clunkers." 2009 sales of hybrid cars in America: just over 161,000 while a year ago at this time nearly...

Tags: Hybrid Car, Hybrid Sale, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-20

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Carwatchers watching Tokyo

Arguably the Tokyo Auto Show is now more important than the one that opens the calendar year in Detroit. And the show in Tokyo opens officially on October 21, so that means all the competitors are busy seeding the blogosphere with their hints and leaks and hype. There...

Tags: Mitsubishi Corp., Subaru, Car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Plug-in, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

Palm drops Windows Mobile from future plans, WebOS only focus

very wrong step for Palm that will eventually bankrupt themPalm is trying to squeeze in to the iphone space and forsee the future with WebOs. it so sad they don't understand the future is both. the windows Mobile platform is used by the federal government and fortune 500 companies and...

Tags: Handhelds, Smart phones, Mobile operating systems, Cellular phones, Operating systems, Mobile applications, windows mobile platform, Symbian OS Phones, Microsoft Windows, mobile, Treo Pro, Palm Inc., WinMo, Palm Treo, Fortune 500 company, Microsoft Windows Mobile

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

News to know: Gmail outage; VMWorld; Skype; Browsers; Steve Jobs; Google Wave

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 Nusca: Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter Christopher Dawson: Oh sure...4 days in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software

Blog posts 2009-09-02

News to know: Microsoft; Apple; Google; Hack attacks

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. Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search) Microsoft denies holding up Win 7 tools...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows 7, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS, Keyboards, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Peripherals, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-04

What do you want from your next computer?

What do you want from your next computer?I am happy with my laptop but battery too smallI have a Acer 5315-2715 which is really nice. I however hate to run this on the battery because I only have 2 hours or less depending on what I am doing.It would be...

Tags: Notebooks, Engineering, PRODUCTIVITY, Processors, GPU, laptop computer, CPU, RAM, battery, computer, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

News to know: Intel; Oracle, Microsoft patches; Azure; Mourning a dead laptop

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. Larry Dignan: Intel shines: Earnings, revenue, margins well above estimates; Outlook better Andrew Nusca: PC sales to see biggest drop...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Mobile, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Windows Mobile Customizability, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Taxpayers are NOT bailing out Ford Motor, or are we?

We all know the sorry saga of two-thirds of the former Detroit Big Three. GM in bankruptcy, shedding brands and trying to become competitive once again. Chrylser is now essentially a distribution arm for Fiat, a second tier car company that had no American market share a year...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-23

News to know: FTC vs. botnets; Microsoft; Apple WWDC; Twitter

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. Ryan Naraine: FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP. FTC statement Patch Tuesday heads-up: Critical Windows, IE fixes coming Typo'd Google domains in Top...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, WWDC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., FTC, NEC Corp., Twitter, Darwin, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telephony, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Monitors & Displays, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-05

The non-Ford plan for first plug-in diesel hybrid

The non-Ford plan for first plug-in diesel hybridIt is about time!With the initial push from the electric motor, a diesel would not have to huff and puff under load to accelerate thus eliminating the condition under which diesels polute the most. If the engine were optimized for it's most...

Tags: plug-in

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Hybrids to increase market share, but...

Big money on Wall Street is betting hybrid autos will become a bigger part of the mass market this decade, but will remain a minority privilege for those who don't need a price-tag bargain. That's the conclusion of a study just out from J.P. Morgan. By the year...

Tags: Car, Japan, Hybrid, Toyota Prius, Morgan, Price Margin, Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-31

Zune HD: Trying to compete with yesterday's iPod Touch

Zune HD: Trying to compete with yesterday's iPod TouchMy Goodness, Samsuch an obvious troll for a story. I am shocked.Well, only somewhat.What about..people who want a good solid PMP without all that added garbage. I don't give a crap about a hand held computer. The current incarnation of...

Tags: Digital music, Handhelds, Digital media, Page View, Apple iPod Touch, Compaq iPAQ, Apple iPod, Zune HD, Microsoft Zune, IPAQS, ZuneHD

Discussion threads 2009-05-27

Insight available Tuesday

Insight. Courtesy Honda. The Honda Insight will be on sale Tuesday. Based on sales in Japan, it will be a tough competitor of the Toyota Prius. Here in the U.S. Prius sales have already been slaughtered by the economy. 2008 deliveries fell 12% in the...

Tags: Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Prius, Honda Insight, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Public Relations, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-21

Chinese electric car maker thinks green and Go America

We've read about many Chinese manufacturers cutting back, laying off, feeling the pinch of reduced consumption in the U.S. Bucking the general trend: BYD. They are a Chinese car maker and plan to introduce their plug-in electric car in the U.S. in 2011. Of course, one of...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, BYD, F3DM, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Time for us drivers to plug in?

Automakers, both foreign and domestic, both Detroitish and Japanese, are hoping we American drivers will be electrified. At least they hope we'll go for electrified cars. One MSM story today wonders ig continued low gasoline prices will kill public appetite for hybrid or alternative fuel vehicles for months,...

Tags: Car, Honda Motor Co., Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Volt, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-11

CRM 2009 - Part 2.1 - Can't Believe I Forgot These

I forgot to write in two of my forecast segments yesterday. I think for the purposes of blaming something else, I'll blame my car accident last August for the memory loss.  I have to say that because I don't think I can use the term I want to about what happened...

Tags: Customer, Tool, CRM, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Big Three Automakers get Wall Street Fever: give us more money

Forget $25 billion for the U.S.-owned auto companies. Small change. They've upped their request from the feds. GM alone now wants $18 billion. Doesn't that raise your confidence level that these guys are really on top of the situation? Oh, by the way,...

Tags: Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., CEO, Hummer Brand, Focus, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Icahn: 'I like Jerry'; Yahoo needs Microsoft search deal

Icahn: 'I like Jerry'; Yahoo needs Microsoft search dealYahoo needs or Icahn needs??Please, lets be very clear. Icahn need the MS deal to make $$$ on the sale.He has absolutely no interest in Yahoo or the company's long term survival. His only interest is in himself. He...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-29

Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide

Update, 12/4/08: It's been brought to my attention by a diligent reader that several of the products listed in this guide were from 2007, and not this year. I compiled this guide as an aggregation of several listings online; clearly, some of the listings were old...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-23

VW model gets "Green Car of the Year" in Los Angeles

The winning Jetta. Courtesy: CBS Interactive It is a VW diesel that won the award. Specifically: VW Jetta TDI. The LA Award winner was chosen by "Green Car Journal." There was a Ford Fusion in the competition. The little...

Tags: Car, VW, Diesel, Jetta TDI, TDI, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-20