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Preview Party: Windows 7 makes a big splash in a Mac house

No, they're not.[i]How sad that PC users are impressed and astonished when the following problems DON'T happen:[/i]Such events are abnormal for Windows too. Have been for years. If you're experiencing any of these then there's a problem you need to investigate and resolve. It's not normal behavior for Windows. Sam...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, desktop, Microsoft Windows 7, Ubuntu, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Sam

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Smartphone battleground: Apple and Google head to China

Smartphone battleground: Apple and Google head to ChinaChina is a whole different ball gameDoing business in China is unlike any other market, and Chinese consumers are notoriously hard to pigeonhole. Add to that a government that's ostensibly capitalist but still very totalitarian, and you have a tough nut to crack....

Tags: Handhelds, Cellular phones, Investment, Apple Inc., Smartphone, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th EditionAttention Economy expresses exactly why Marketing 2.0 is dead.Paul - you get it - that's why you've posted this chapter up to get our input.This chapter smells like nostalgia - playing with the notion that marketing is still sitting...

Tags: Marketing research, Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), Attention Economy, marketing, Marketing 2.0, Sam, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

Where

WhereWhile the methodology is interesting......what an absurd, grandstanding, self-aggrandizing public disclosure. Since bin Laden has by now read the article he knows his cover has been blown and has split to somewhere else. This information should have been kept under wraps until the feds/military had either acted or...

Tags: Bush, Osama bin Laden, Obl, Sam

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

Sam Diaz: Disclosure

Sam Diaz: DisclosureBANWIDTHI am stoked with Obama's vision for America. If I were to invest in companies involved in this communications effort, what companies would be more likely involved?

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Discussion threads 2008-12-09

iPhone 3G coming to Walmart, Sam's Club Dec. 28

iPhone 3G coming to Walmart, Sam's Club Dec. 28Apple is hurting!Walmart rarely sells anything it can't discount better than anyone else. Next in store - Cadillac Escalades at the Walmart Tire Center?#1 device worldwideAdMob, the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace, today announced the iPhone is now the #1 device...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Apple iPhone, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Sam, 3G

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

iPhone 3G coming to Walmart, Sam's Club Dec. 28

Walmart will begin selling Apple's iPhone 3G on December 28th in select locations, eventually expanding to 2,500 stores, according to BoyGeniusReport. Sam's Club gets in on the action too, with 69 locations offering the handset on the 28th. Some stores will reportedly get live demo units to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, Sam, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Questioning the reliability of an iPhone reliability study

Questioning the reliability of an iPhone reliability studyRe: Questioning the reliability of an iPhone reliability study"In this case, I think word-of-mouth reviews from friends, co-workers and family members are still the best approach - at least while the product is still young."I don't have a dog in this hunt; I...

Tags: Handhelds, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, iPhone reliability study, reliability study, SquareTrade

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

Google's mobile Street View: Definitely creepy

Google is out with its Street View for the Blackberry and I'm a bit of a Luddite. Unlike my pal Sam, who thinks the fact Google puts his house online is wonderful, I'm not to hip to having the search giant show my house. I live in...

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Sam, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Inside the Intel Developer Forum

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with senior editor Sam Diaz about trends and products at this year's Intel Developer Forum. Diaz discusses how the chipmaker's latest processors pave the way for innovations that cut across industries. He also explains why Intel's ever-faithful support of WiMax may finally begin reaping...

Tags: Intel Corp., Diaz, Leadership, Strategy, Wi-Fi, Semiconductors, Wireless, Management, Hardware, Intel, IDF, chips, WiMax, Sumi, Sam

Videos 2008-08-19

Welcome Sam Diaz

I'm pleased to announce that ZDNet has added another contributor to Between the Lines. Sam Diaz is our new senior editor based in San Francisco. Sam has been a technology and business blogger, reporter and editor at the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News and Fresno Bee...

Tags: San Francisco, Sam Diaz, Sam, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Openness

I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...

Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Jive's Sam Lawrence on Enterprise 2.0: "It's a buzzword" [podcast]

This week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston featured a host of small companies hoping to sell sexy, cool software to large companies. Many of these vendors won't survive because they don't understand how the enterprise buys, uses, and deploys applications. In this podcast, I asked Jive Software's chief marketing officer,...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Sam, Podcasts, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Microsoft: Half of Exchange inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in five years

Microsoft: Half of Exchange inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in five yearsWho knows better?[i]What's your take? Is Capossela's projection overly ambitious? Too conservative (in that it shouldn't take five years for this move to happen)? Or does it sound on the money, to you?[/i]Since Microsoft is in a position to enforce...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Sam, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents

It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren’t taking social software seriously. They can’t. Not even if they...

Tags: Austin Ventures, Channel Management, Dennis Howlett, IBM Corp., Internet, Marketing, Oracle Corp., Sam, SAP AG, Software, Value Chain, Vendor, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Grading Gartner and Forrester

Grading Gartner and ForresterMy issue with Gartner....is they seem to never be right in their predictions. I put no store in anything I read that comes from Gartner. I really don't think they have a clue about IT or the market it sits in. It would be interesting to grade...

Tags: Grading Gartner, Forrester Research Inc., Sam

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

Play it again Sam

Play it again Samhttp://www.analogstereo.com/acura_integra_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/acura_integra_owners_manual.htm

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Discussion threads 2007-12-05

Parsing search marketing, the 'content pyramid' and RSS strategies with Sam Whitmore

Read a transcript of the discussion.In my work covering enterprise application development and deployment strategies, I often find myself also witnessing a sea-change in how software providers market their values. Software has always been a challenge to market, and many of the most innovative thinking in online marketing has come...

Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, Podcasts, Internet, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Daily Picture Of Zurich 1.0.1 (Windows)

Daily Picture Of Zurich displays a new picture of Zurich every day, or even more often. The pictures are taken on the countryside of Zurich and the city of Zurich. For all that don't know where Zurich is, its in the north of Switzerland. This version is the first release...

Tags: Zurich, Sam, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-07-10

Wal-Mart vs. MySpace: Mr. Sam too honest to be a social networking darling?

Wal-Mart vs. MySpace: Mr. Sam too honest to be a social networking darling?http://www.analogstereo.com/suzuki_samurai_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/suzuki_samurai_owners_manual.htm

Tags: social networking darling, Sam, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., MySpace, social networking

Discussion threads 2007-06-23