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- Why Amazon Needs Kindle 2.0
- Kindle-mania has arrived this holiday season -- but will it stay for good? In a recent article on Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg writes that Amazon's next e-reader won't be a game-changer, but it will keep killing the competition -- and that's why Amazon needn't upgrade its fabled gadget....
- Tags: Sony Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Kindle-mania, Greenberg, Kindle, Keyboards, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Mervyns – The cautionary tale of selling one's business
- Too Many Cooks Spoil the Livelihoods of Thousands BusinessWeek (12/6/2008) did a great job of dissecting of what went wrong in the collapse of U. S. retailer, Mervyns (see "What Have You Done to My Company"). The subtitle of the story pretty much sums up the...
- Tags: Private Equity, Private Equity Company, Firm, Mervyns, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict
- Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google's revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Board, Trip Chowdhry, Contacts, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP)
- With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...
- Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Leo Apotheker, Paul Greenberg, Paul, Claus Heinrich, Wookey, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Who put the 'crap' in 'Crapintosh'?
- Zack Whittaker has taken a few days off to "get his head together", so in the meantime his best friend, Elliot Harrison, has stepped up to the firing squad to cover this week. The hate campaign certain Windows users have against Macintosh users must ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zack Whittaker, Desktops, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Nokia's N97: Is this your future netbook?
- Nokia on Tuesday rolled out its N97, a high-end smartphone with a 3.5 inch touch display, QWERTY keyboard and social location software to allow people to use Facebook, MySpace and other sites on the go. As I play with--and ponder--the netbook I have and all the tradeoffs...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, Nokia N97, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- 'Semantic Web for Business' ultimately misses the mark
- Weighing in at 416 text-packed pages, Semantic Web for Business could have been the latest attempt to bridge the divide between the university hotbeds of Semantic Web research and a business community ripe for persuading of semantic technologies' multifarious benefits. In that, though, the volume proves ultimately unsatisfying and a...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Talking is a good thing
- I had a great meeting with one of the elementary schools in my district today. The principal turned over most of a staff meeting to me today in part for some training and professional development, but largely for a discussion of technology in the district. I...
- Tags: District, Budgeting, Principal, Teacher, Financial Services, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Compare prices with the iPhone
- Here's a cool iPhone trick: Download the free Snappr application for the iPhone and iPod touch iTunes. Scan the 2D Codes and (the first of it's kind) 1D Barcodes found on books and movies and stuff and get all kinds of price and shopping...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 2D Codes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Apple, Mozilla gain ground on Microsoft for Web traffic
- When it comes to surfing the Web, a growing number of people used Macs, instead of a Windows computer, as well as browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the month of November. According to a survey by NetApplications reported on Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog, the number...
- Tags: Web, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., NetApplications, Web Browsers, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Would you lie to get your project funded?
- 83% of cost/benefit analysis supporting IT proposals is a fiction I was reviewing an academic manuscript, Managing the Realization of Business Benefits from IT Investments (published in (MIS Quarterly Executive, March 2007) by Professors Joe Peppard, John Ward and Elizabeth Daniel, when a footnote really caught my...
- Tags: Information Technology, Benefit, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Top Web sites in October 2008
- Brand Audience, 000 Time Per Person 1. Google 122,325 1:23:07 2. Yahoo! 116,078 3:23:29 3. MSN/Windows Live 102,494 2:23:27 4. Microsoft 92,348 0:45:54 5. AOL Media Network 88,028 3:34:41 6. YouTube 77,480 0:53:25 7. Fox Interactive...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Wiki, Web Site Development, Branding, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- The App Store hits a milestone: 10,000 apps
- The App Store, the aisle of Apple's iTunes Store devoted to selling software, reached a big milestone some time over the Thanksgiving weekend (here is the U.S.) adding its 10,000th application. That's a far cry from the 552 apps that were available when the App Store launched...
- Tags: App, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Taleo: Management's comments regarding their November to forget
- A Different and More Optimistic View - Execs Confirm Many Prior Assumptions Last week, Taleo's Katy Murray, CFO, and Nate Swanson, Investor Relations, were kind enough to spend a few minutes with me to discuss my recent post on Taleo. The overall tone was positive and not...
- Tags: Taleo Corp., Operational Accounting, Revenue Recognition, Sales Strategy, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- The fastest mandible strike in the world
- U.S. researchers report that the termite named Termes panamensis possesses the fastest mandible strike ever recorded. 'Footage of the soldier termite's jaws as they strike an invader at almost 70 meters per second was captured on a high speed video camera in the laboratory at 40,000 frames per second.' As...
- Tags: Ant, Strike, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Traffic from Google and other search engines to specific Web categories in October 2008
- Category Share of traffic from search engines Growth in share of traffic from search engines October 2007 - October 2008 Share of traffic from Google October 2008 Growth in share of traffic from Google October 2007 - October 2008 Health and Medical 44.92% 0% 31.88% 10% Travel...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Search Engine, Traffic, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
- Top shopping categories ranked by market share
- DATE 10/27/2007 10/25/2008 % Change Music 0.24% 0.19% -21% Computers 0.39% 0.32% -18% Ticketing 0.11% 0.10% -12% Toys and Hobbies 0.32% 0.29% -10% Video and Games 0.41% 0.37% -10% Source: Hitwise by NB
- Tags: Hitwise, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- SMS advertising response rates
-  Received SMS Ads, 000 % Responded to SMS Advert  Aug-07 Aug-08 % Change Aug-07 Aug-08 Point Change Downloads for mobile phone 40,792 35,915 -12.0% 4.4% 3.9% -0.6 News or information 25,929 22,122 -14.7% 2.8% 3.2% 0.4 Mobile phone or plan...
- Tags: Advertisement, Mobile, SMS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- Top Web companies in US in October 2008
- Rank Property Audience, 000 Total Audience 190,616 1 Google Sites 147,035 2 Yahoo! Sites 144,903 3 Microsoft Sites 123,483 4 AOL LLC 111,259 5 Fox Interactive Media 90,636 6 eBay 70,737 7 Ask...
- Tags: Site, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
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