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- Report: Apple’s Fifth Avenue store tops $350M in annual revenue (Updated)
- Bloomberg notes that that's the equivalent of selling one Mercedes-Benz C300 sedan per square foot. Jeffrey Roseman of real-estate broker Newmark Knight Frank Retail in New York estimates that Apple’s Fifth Avenue store has about $350 million in annual revenue -- the highest of Apple's 262 retail...
- Tags: Revenue, Foot, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Retail, Sales, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions
- United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.  You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...
- Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Chinese worker commits suicide after losing prototype iPhone 4G (updated)
- VentureBeat reports via News reports coming out of China that 25 year-old Sun Danyong committed suicide on July 9 after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing. Danyong worked for Foxconn in Shenzhen in Guangdong province near Hong Kong which manufacturers iPhones for Apple. According to VB...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 4G, Apartment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., Suicide, Worker, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Amazon to replace cracked Kindle e-readers free; drops $200 charge
- Following a customer lawsuit, Amazon says it will replace models of its popular Kindle e-reader that have been cracked by a cover for the device that it sells as an accessory. The move marks a shift in Amazon's previous position, which was to...
- Tags: E-reader, Amazon.com Inc., Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- iTunes 8.2.1 stops Palm Pre from syncing
- Precentral has confirmed that the recently released iTunes 8.2.1 update breaks Palm Pre syncing. Back in May the Palm Pre was released with an innovative means of syncing with Apple's iTunes software -- it impersonated an iPod. It took a little longer than expected...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Precentral, Palm Pre, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- In an economic downturn, prepaid mobile is big business
- Why pay $100 or more each month for a two-year cell phone contract when you can pay $50 and keep yourself off the hook? At least that's the thinking behind the latest ad campaign by Boost Mobile, a prepaid, or "no-contract," mobile service provider whose parent company...
- Tags: Segment, Mobile, Handset, Boost Mobile, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- NSA will monitor private-sector networks
- The Bushization of Obama continues with a plan to involve the NSA in screening private-sector networks, The Washington Post reports. The plan not only uses the NSA to monitor private networks but it does so in a way that makes it unclear who exactly is in charge...
- Tags: Monitor, Network, AT&T Corp., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, NSA, Post Story, Privacy Advocate, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Having forced one Irish ISP to adopt three strikes rules, labels sue to force others to match policy
- The RIAA recording industry is determined to rip Internet access away from illegal downloaders and it continued its campaign with legal action in Ireland. Check this one out, it's really jaw-dropping. The Irish Times reports reports that the Big Four are suing telco BT Ireland and cable company UPC Ireland...
- Tags: RIAA, British Telecommunications, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- WSJ: Jobs had liver transplant two months ago
- WSJ: Jobs had liver transplant two months agoMessage has been deletedMessage has been deletedWe have a winner...in the race to the bottom.Too bad you didn't read the article before spouting your bile."Having the procedure done in Tennessee makes sense because its list of patients waiting for transplants is shorter than...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, UNOS, job
- Discussion threads 2009-06-20
- Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rights
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago and is said to be recovering well, according to a Wall Street Journal report that cites unnamed sources. Jobs still is expected to return to work later this month, as expected, though he may come back...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- WSJ: Jobs had liver transplant two months ago
- A new Wall Street Journal report has just surfaced on the paper's website stating that Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a liver transplant in Tennessee "about two months ago." He has been on leave since January for "an undisclosed medical condition" and been rumored to return soon. ...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Wall Street Journal, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Firefox 3.5 RC1 expected to be available June 19
- Firefox 3.5 RC1 is now targeted for release on June 19, said one Mozilla spokeswoman. Over the next few days,  Mozilla will begin releasing Build 2 of the release candidate to about 800,000 beta testers. But the official release candidate 1 won't be available until later in...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp., Firefox 3.5 RC1, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- State DMV: Facial recognition requires 'No Smile' rule
- Facial recognition systems may have their good points, but count this on the negative side: At the Virginia DMV, smiles are outlawed, according to the Washington Post. Manassas resident Maria Quispe when she sat down against the white backdrop and attempted to look happy for...
- Tags: Facial Recognition, Virginia DMV, Quispe, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Microsoft won't bother with EU hearing
- Microsoft wanted the European Commission to reschedule a hearing at which Redmond would be be able to defend itself against the EU's conclusion that tying IE to Windows is anticompetitive. The reason: Microsoft's top antitrust staff would be attending a big conference in Zurich. The EU declined....
- Tags: Commission, Zurich, Microsoft Corp., European Union, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Thieves stalking/robbing Apple customers in Boca Raton
- Thieves stalking/robbing Apple customers in Boca Ratoncommon sense?Maybe they should carry their bags with them until they are finished shopping? Nice.[i]Maybe Apple should switch to bags that say ?Walmart? on them?[/i]Nice elitist attitude you have there, Sparky.The ULTIMATE deterrent?If you could source a supply of VISTA CAPABLE stickers...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Boca Raton, car
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Thieves stalking/robbing Apple customers in Boca Raton
- The Sun-Sentinel is reporting that Police are investigating five cases in the past three months where people bought computers at the Apple Store at the Town Center mall in Boca Raton, then later found their cars broken into and their purchases stolen. The scam involves following a...
- Tags: Car, Mall, Apple Inc., Sun-Sentinel, Productivity, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?
- IBM and other players on Monday will launch its Open Cloud Manifesto, a call to make cloud computing "open as all other IT technologies." But the list of companies that didn't sign on to the manifesto is telling. Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce never signed on. Google was on a preliminary...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Standards, Manifesto, IT Industry, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us
- Update: Amazon will join Microsoft as two big cloud computing players not signing on to the Open Cloud Manifesto. The manifesto, which has raised a ruckus following a Microsoft blog post, is set to be released Monday with IBM as the ringleader. Given the hubbub it was...
- Tags: Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Standards, Cloud Computing, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- If Blackberry Maker Eavesdrops On Itself, Who Else Gets To?
- It’s good to find that R.I.M. does not actually record employee phone calls, according to a company representative contacted this afternoon by Between The Lines. Because what is so piquant about the original comment carried by Research In Motion chief information officer Robin Bienfait that she records...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Communication, RIM BlackBerry, R.I.M., Handhelds, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Is Craigslist 'Pimp 2.0'?
- The Web was supposed to be the "disintermediator" - the destroyer of unnecessary middlemen. Craiglist might have been intended to disintermediate newspaper classified advertising although Craig always denied that but now it seems it has become the ultimate disintermediator - a pimp. At least that's...
- Tags: Craigslist, Gender And Diversity, Recruitment & Selection, Sales Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
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