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Apple, Amazon may hold future of DRM-free music

Apple, Amazon may hold future of DRM-free musicSales SlumpRemoving DRM from thier music won't improve sales. The Major Labels are in slump because of the content they are offering. First it's limited in terms of choice and what you have to choose from is all the same. You can have...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Sales strategy, Digital media, UNIX, Major Label, Apple Inc., dinosaur, similiarity, Amazon.com Inc., music, slump, digital-rights management, RIAA, late 80s, CD, sales

Discussion threads 2007-05-17

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Where open source will be sucked into the downdraft

Where open source will be sucked into the downdraftPure play open source is not going away ...... bad business models are.I've run a pure play open source company for seven years and expect to be around for many more. We have a unique business model called "spend less than you...

Tags: Pure-play open source, open source, downdraft, economic downturn

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices

London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect pricesMicrosoft Technology at its finestSince Both NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange were MS case studies about how great Windows is, guess Windows really is the POS we all thought it is.Funny how they never had these errors on previous systems and now with...

Tags: Investment, Operating systems, Web site, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., stock, London Stock Exchange website, incorrect price, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Amazon feeling first pinch of holiday economic slump

Amazon feeling first pinch of holiday economic slumpOnline spending.Thank you for covering the index, our next release will be late Oct and will be released in time for Cyber Monday and the holiday seasonInteresting times for sure, while it is true that access to credit is shrinking and the desire...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Amazon feeling first pinch of holiday economic slump

The uncertainty surrounding the economy is starting to impact brand names that have become synonymous with online holiday shopping - notably Amazon. Lazard Capital analyst Colin Sebastian lowered estimates for Amazon's Q3, FY 2008 and FY 2009 this morning, noting in an investor's report that, despite its gains in e-commerce...

Tags: Holiday, Estimate, Amazon.com Inc., E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'

Some of the folks touting hybrid cars--standard fuel plus electric--think their favored technology runs against the plans of T. Boone Pickens. I recently blogged Pickens' pick of CNG as a great new transit fuel for American drivers. Over at Hybridowners they're saying electric hybrids and eventually plug-ins will...

Tags: Car, Hybrid, Folk, Hybridowners Site, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-03

News to know: SAP; Microsoft patches; Nvidia; iPhone

Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do Michael Krigsman: Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs IE, Office in big patch haul Roland Piquepaille: No more need for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, NVidia Corp., Patch Management, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, 3G, E-books, Web Browsers, Linux, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?

Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?The perception is ...... Apple can't be great without Steve Jobs. I personally don't feel this is necessarily the case even though when Jobs was ousted proved to be a disastrous decision for Apple.Apple is in a strong growth period and...

Tags: Quality, Desktops, Digital media, Steve J, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

IBM: Big Blue beats expectations; raises full year guidance

updated: IBM, a bellweather that analysts have been watching as an indicator of the tech industry's economic health in the U.S., reported second quarter earnings of $2.8 billion, or $1.98 a share, an increase of 28 percent over the same quarter a year ago. Revenue was $26.8 billion, a 13...

Tags: Revenue, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-17

NVIDIA stock ... Good buy or goodbye?

NVIDIA stock ... Good buy or goodbye?They said that of Applethose many years ago. Thankfully, I held onto my stock which is doing quite well.I have a feeling that Nvidia will recover over time as well.I will remain loyal to nVidia.Of course, I only use desktops but I've found their...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, NVidia Corp., stock

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Images: MIT predicts tech to jump-start economy

Researchers from the institute talk about future technologies they believe will deliver the United States from its economic slump. by CNET News.com

Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-06-03

BlackBerry shows iPhone who's the boss - But for how long?

Given all the frenzy over the iPhone it's easy to forget that there are other smartphones on the market. Latest data from IDC indicates strong BlackBerry sales for Q1, easily beating Apple's offering. The first quarter report shows that BlackBerry took 44.5 % of the U.S. market, up from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, iPhone 2.0, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Handhelds, Sales, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Adding up Sun's pieces

Adding up Sun's piecesFocus on the small businessIf Sun wants to monetize their strategy have a separate sales channel focus on the SMB's that don't have deep pockets and entrenched technology and are willing to listen when someone says there is a better cheaper way of doing things.Sun has too...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Servers, Murph, Sun Microsystems Inc., stock, server

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

Sluggish economy may spur more, but smaller, SOA projects

Will 2008 be a year of retrenchment of our expectations of SOA, or will things really take off? There's a debate as to whether a slow economy would help or hurt SOA. It's worth noting that the case for SOA, in tandem with Web services, was forged...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-03-27

iMovie lets students focus on content, not videography

iMovie lets students focus on content, not videographyCan you please post the YouTube links?I have to admit that I am a bit dubious that first time students using iMovie were able to create "professional-looking video". Can you please post the links to the videos you talk about here?I believe that...

Tags: Corporate communications, Apple iMovie, video, videography, video editing

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

McCain: Are Tech Empresses the Ticket?

Retiring eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman now joins ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina on John McCain's campaign and fund-raising trail. Hmm. Former and Soon-to-be former Empresses of Multi-Billion dollar dot-coms and powerful computer industry giants -- are we seeing a pattern here? Is it possible that we could we be seeing...

Tags: Meg Whitman, Industry, John McCain, CEO, Gender And Diversity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Human Resources, Investment, Finance, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-03-16

"Vista Capable" logo - what went wrong?

"Vista Capable" logo - what went wrong?What went wrong was simple....... MS proved once again that they are a marketing company and not a technology company. Marketing takes precedence. It doesn't matter if the customer gets scr3wed because they're a monoply and the customer's only purpose is to fill the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), No_Ax, marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Vista Capable

Discussion threads 2008-02-28

Medical devices are no longer a safe haven

For several months now we've been told by stock pickers that medical stocks are safe havens, that they're recession-resistant. Maybe they're not. (I first ran this picture last year. It was from a photo contest sponsored by Worth Magazine.) Profits at Wright Medical sank...

Tags: Stock, Medical Device, Healthcare, Investment, IPO, Finance, Financial Services, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-15

Interviewing in SecondLife

Interesting article in the New York Times about companies moving job interviews into SecondLife. The whole virtual world industry has had a lot of folk scratching their heads saying "Gosh, that's cool. There must be a way to use it in business, but how?" Sort of what...

Tags: Job, World Industry, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-02-11