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- How long to the Star Trek replicator?
- How long to the Star Trek replicator?Money could become outmoded.Why use general scarcity? Sure there is always scarcity. If we didn't have scarcity then we wouldn't have something here nor there but isn't money outmoded already with Digital Markets and Transaction?That extra layer of money just represents a segmented globe...
- Tags: scarcity, replicator, Star Trek
- Discussion threads 2006-12-30
- Is there an economics of demand-side scarcity?
- Is there an economics of demand-side scarcity?Spending money to make moneyPeople do become wealthy by managing intangibles. But the agreements and information on which they work all have to do with the production and sale of real goods and services.People make money on the transfer of ownership from one...
- Tags: customer list, scarcity
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- Scarcity and long queues are a marketing strategy
- If you plan on buying a Sony PlayStation 3 or a Microsoft Zune this Christmas, then you will join an elite group of individuals who will have the privilege of beta testing that product. On top of that, you'll be expected to market that product aggressively during 2007 by actively...
- Tags: marketing strategy, marketing, scarcity
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- VoIP firm tussles with states over phone numbers
- VoIP firm tussles with states over phone numberssurprised it took this longfor someone outside the PSTN to notice that phone numbers are a finite resource.Of course, the article is wrong: there's no need at all for VoIP phones to have traditional 10-digit numbers. Since the numbers themselves don't...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, phone, VoIP, scarcity, NPA
- Discussion threads 2004-08-19
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- JAMA studies push the need for H1N1 flu shot
- Still fighting that war eh, Dana? :)Get over it man.Interesting piece of information:Recent news in Canada:"Four Canadian studies involved about 2,000 people, health officials told CBC News. Researchers found people who had received the seasonal flu vaccine in the past were more likely to get sick with the H1N1 virus."So......
- Tags: H1N1 flu, flu, regular flu
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Scheduling Heterogeneous Wireless Systems for Efficient Spectrum Access
- The spectrum scarcity problem emerged in recent years, due to unbalanced utilization of RF Radio Frequency bands in the current state of wireless spectrum allocations. Different from cognitive radio approaches which are opportunistic and non-collaborative in general, spectrum access scheduling proactively structures and interleaves the channel access pattern of heterogeneous...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Spectrum, Wireless
- White papers 2009-09-30
- Open source can save your life
- Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...
- Tags: Hospital, Open Source, Health Care, VA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- When will Microsoft admit the truth about software patents?
- HERETIC !My patent is better than you patent!What a waste of resources!I couldn't agree with you more.Now for the sharks in the suits .... what are they to do if they have to keep their Lexus more than 6 months?Duh!I simply do not understand the warped reasoning that would make...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Intellectual property, Microsoft Corp., Protecting intellectual property, patent, software, Donald Knuth, Newton, software patent
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
- Apple puts image ahead of safety ... again!
- Apple puts image ahead of safety ... again!The End: isn't that TWO questions?I've been told by the one who I give that blasted wedding band to that counting--and numbers in general--isn't one of my strong suits, but I do believe I can confidently get at least to five...er ok,...
- Tags: Adrian, Apple Inc., Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Managing IT in desperate times
- Managing IT in desperate timesSome good ideasBut your treatise on the economy is not. I have read much on the US economy, and the "experts" seem to agree that there is a danger of DEflation - as all those newly printed dollars tend not to circulate - banks don't lend...
- Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Free trade, information technology, Murph, problem-I
- Discussion threads 2009-07-18
- Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely' Will Become a 'Paid System'. Time Projection: Within 5 Years
- The days of the free Internet will draw to a close over the next five years, according to the chairman and chief executive of IAC, the interactive services company which operates a collection of more than 30 Internet sites which produce $1.5 billion a year in revenue. ...
- Tags: Billing, IAC/InterActive Corp., Billing System, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Gov. to pirates: we'll slow you down, not cut you off
- Gov. to pirates: we'll slow you down, not cut you offJust another skirmishIn the war big content providers are waging against their own customers. Selling DRM free content for cheap prices via multiple channels will slow so-called "piracy" down considerably. Why "steal" a song if you can buy it for...
- Tags: piracy
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- 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
- The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy
- By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- 'SOA is Dead' debate lives on and on
- I didn't see the brilliant analyst Anne Thomas Manes at either of this week's IBM IMPACT or Software AG's SOA Summit events, but boy, was she there in spirit. The topic still on everybody's minds and lips at both events was Anne's pronouncement at the beginning of the year that...
- Tags: SOA, Kevin, Cramm, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Google is really bad at monetizing content: $302m in 2008
- Google is really bad at monetizing content: $302m in 2008AdWord's "Targeting Premium"I agree that monetizing online content is the core problem facing traditional newspapers today.The real issue for them is in a world of infinite supply, the ability to monetize the value in any piece of editorial content will be...
- Tags: AdWord, Google Inc., black people
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Murdoch's plan to fix Web news is a good start but it needs aggregators
- Murdoch's plan to fix Web news is a good start but it needs aggregatorsI don't think it would workWe are used to getting news for free, why pay for it?Oh yeah, I'm itching to pay for "content"Nonsense.Perhaps you don't remember how many "news" sites tried to charge for their "work"...
- Tags: Web, editorial content, Internet, Ford Motor Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- RIM's secret weapon: Carriers' profitability and lower bandwidth consumption
- RIM's fourth quarter was impressive on many fronts: Inventories were low and carriers have to restock, consumer and business demand was strong, gross margins were better than expected and earnings and the company's outlook handily topped estimates. But the real secret weapon: RIM is the most profitable device for carriers...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Network, Carrier, Smart Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- An Empirical Study of an RFID Mat Sensor System in a Group Home
- This paper has been developing an RFID Radio Frequency Identification mat system to assist caregivers in a group home. In Japan, the number of group homes offering home-like care for elderly persons suffering from dementia has increased considerably. Even though the smaller number of people residing in a group home...
- Tags: Home, Academy Publisher, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2009-04-01
- P570 vs T5220
- As part of JesperFrimann's challenge with respect to the options available to a company with two aging p690s running Sybase, he suggested that: It's 256 threads per box on the T5440 versus 16 on the p550, and furthermore the power 550 supports shared pool virtualization.. so it...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., J2Ee, Processors, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Programming Languages, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
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