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- Google plays a hand of Ogre with Apple
- 'Ogre' is an interesting - if obscure - analogy. But I would suggest that you'd to better to stick with plain old chess.In my view, the AT&T/iPhone team have a better position, if only by virtue of their early start in the market. But, as a belated entry, Android is...
- Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Ogre, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies
- The Federal Trade Commission wants me - the blogger - to inform you - the reader - about any financial ties I might have with the companies or the products I write about, just to make sure there's no conflict of interest there. That's fine. I have...
- Tags: FTC, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Walmart recalls 4.2 million Durabrand DVD players
- 12 units out of 4.5 millionand we are in a panic recall? What a nation of chicken littles.Cheap chinese junk sold at Wal-Mart is crappy?Stop the presses.overheating means "catches on fire"And burns the house down, potentially killing people... RE: Walmart recalls 4.2 million Durabrand DVD playersIt's Walmart Quality control. Same...
- Tags: DVD, Media players, Consumer electronics, Quality, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Durabrand DVD player, DVD player
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Inching closer to the perfect e-reader for students
- Give it away, just like Cell PhonesIf Sony,Amazon,Plastic Logic, IREX, etc... want people to start reading content on eReader devices, they need to start giving them away for free... with a service contract, much like the cellphone industry.Most people already understand these types of contracts and will feel like they...
- Tags: E-books, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Note-taking, e-reader, perfect e-reader, eReader
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- 5 years of insights and lessons as a professional "journalist - blogger"
- It was about five years ago that I left my job as a reporter and columnist for the Financial Times in the San Francisco bureau. And it's been a tremendous journey. I didn't realize at the time that I would become the first reporter to leave a...
- Tags: Newspaper, Blogger, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- AOL, Yahoo find value in original online news; eyeing laid-off journalists
- As News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch tries to figure out how to charge for newspaper content and the Associated Press continues to whine about online news aggregators offering up its content, AOL and Yahoo seem to be beefing up their own news operations to provide original content. And,...
- Tags: Journalist, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Document Management, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Is Web image theft a problem? Solution providers say yes
- I got into an interesting debate this week with a PR guy who was pitching a service that's trying to curb the illegal use of copyrighted images on the Web. The service, called Vivozoom, is offering a subscription and payment system, along with guarantees that the images from the site...
- Tags: Web, Channel Management, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?
- News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch said that the company will begin charging for its news sites. The details were a bit vague, but Murdoch said News Corp.'s big experiment kicks off in 2010. The larger question is whether this move is much ado about little revenue. We'll...
- Tags: Revenue, Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Quality Journalism, Weinkes, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Startup wants to help newspapers but (get this!) news execs need proof of problem first
- There was a piece in the New York Times this morning that, at the heart of the story, was about a start-up called Attributor, which is launching an ad-revenue sharing service for those who create original content newspapers and those who copy and re-post it some blogs and websites. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Newspaper, Piracy, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without content
- The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without contentEVDO Internet connectivity??EV-DO really?With that only it's a pretty restricted market...there are not many countries were it will work...Better GSM+EDGE+HSPA&HSPA+ /WCDMA (2G -> 2.5G -> 3G -> 3.5G etc. support).CDMA has no longer term future on this planet... RE: The Apple...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Cellular phones, Apple Tablet, tablet, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Adknowledge acquires Smart Rewards: Can virtual cash reinvent online ads?
- Adknowledge, the largest online advertising network, today acquired Super Rewards, a fast growing startup that uses virtual cash to engage people with advertisers. The value of the deal was not disclosed. "I'm very excited about the promise of virtual cash," Brett Brewer, president of Adknowledge, told SVW....
- Tags: Social Networking, Advertisement, Online Advertising, AdKnowledge, Advertiser, Super Rewards, Virtual Cash, Sales Strategy, Sales, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers
- Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapersPerhaps a kindle like device?Get rid of paper, and sell a yearly subscription with a Kindle like reader. The yearly subscription would help offset the hardware costs.Get rid of the paper, or charge extra for it like cellular companies do for optionsTo...
- Tags: news industry
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers
- I continue to be blown away by what I read about how newspapers can be saved. The latest comes from U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner who, in a blog post last week, suggested that one way to save newspapers from their demise would be "to bar linking to...
- Tags: Newspaper, Consent, Blogging, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Internet, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Silicon Valley VCs proposed a plan to save newspapers in 1996
- At the recent SDForum 2009 Visionary Awards, Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley's top VCs, gave an inspiring and very humble speech. How To Succeed In Silicon Valley By Bumbling And Failing... Afterwards, I...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Business Model, Vinod Khosla, Foremski, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Disruptive technologies disrupt - goodbye newspaper companies
- Last week my Saturday Post was about how Internet based technologies have been used to create applications and services that devalue existing business models. It's a hugely disruptive process. [The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .] This trend is occurring because it can occur -- because...
- Tags: Craigslist, Business Model, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .
- Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...
- Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-20
- Should broadband connectivity be a right?
- Should broadband connectivity be a right?Not at all.Yes, it is going to be a necessity but it will never be a right. In my opinion, this goes along with the whole "Is health care a right" ordeal. Neither of these are rights. They are both almost absolutely necessary but no...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, INTERNET, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, broadband connectivity
- Discussion threads 2009-05-31
- Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition
- I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...
- Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Sergey Brin: Newspapers can still prosper but need time to "figure it out"
- Sergey Brin: Newspapers can still prosper but need time to "figure it out"It boils down to Need or GreedI think newspapers by themselves are fine. Its the corporate newspapers that are hurting because of greed (much like the auto industry, the only difference is newspaper companies aren't able to receive...
- Tags: Sergey Brin
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
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