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- PhotoPrice for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- PhotoPrice for iPhone is the first and only application wedding and portrait photographer to assist in pricing services and products. It helps you figure out your COGS so you know what you are making on what you are charging. When you know what your costs are, you know what is...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Pricing Strategy, Strategy Avenue, Pricing, Smart Phones, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
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- Microsoft says Google Chrome Frame doubles IE attack surface
- Actually, it means that some of the browsing will be much safer by using Chrome. Notice that Microsoft's ONLY arguments here are bogus security arguments. They do not even try to deny that Chrome is much faster and better.RE: Microsoft says Google Chrome Frame doubles IE attack surfaceIf Google Chrome...
- Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, plug-in
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- 'Quality Scores' For Web Content: How Numbers Will Create A 'Beautiful Cycle of Greatness for Us All'
- Patrick Keane spent four years at Google, before becoming chief marketing officer at CBS Interactive which owns CNet and ZDNet. Now he’s in his third month as chief executive officer at Associated Content, the “people’s media†company. And...
- Tags: Keane Inc., Web, Quality, Content, Associated Content, Channel Management, Engineering, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Yahoo's new BOSS: another tool to milk pennies out of search?
- In a sense, Yahoo is going back to basics by tapping the search index itself to be the core of a new business strategy. The company said today that it plans to impose a pricing and usage structure on its Yahoo BOSS Build Your Own Search Service API for developers...
- Tags: Developer, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., API, Unit, Pricing Strategy, Tool, Bartz, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- ISP to RIAA: Pay up or do your own dirty work
- ISP to RIAA: Pay up or do your own dirty workGood for themGreat move by this ISP.One in millions......... maybe more.............A man with convictions and the guts to back them up. Long live Jerry Scroggin! Hip, hip, hooray!Always good to see some courageNo, it's not the job of ISPs to...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Jury Nullification, RIAA, Internet Service Provider, Pay Up, dirty work
- Discussion threads 2008-12-22
- The emerging case for open business methods
- The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...
- Tags: Business, Business Method, Business Strategy, Dave Bort, Dion Hinchcliffe, Internet, Management, Network, Open Source, Reasons Organization, Strategy
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?
- Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?RE: Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?Microsoft is not going to go away any time soon. They are the predominate force in IT with its massive spendeing in advertisement to essentially brain wash the industry, and dumbing down the IT industry with the...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Programming languages, Microsoft .NET, Java, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-02
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...
- Tags: SMB/SME, Apple Inc., small and medium business, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Yahoo and Intel's Web TV widget could be the winner
- I have seen the future of television. And I can’t wait to “watch.†For years, companies large and small have been trying to merge the experiences of watching TV and surfing the Web. But none have really taken off, largely because the attempts have tried to force...
- Tags: Web TV, Web, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Blue Ocean Strategy: A Tool to Increase Your Profit Margins - Both Revenue Side and Cost Side!
- This brief paper is directed toward business managers currently struggling to maintain margins and who also might be open to a different avenue for increasing profit margins beyond the conventional strategy of cutting costs. If hitting profit margins is what keeps one awake most nights, (i.e. if one is a...
- Tags: Revenue, Profit Margin, Tool, deCONSTANTIN & Associates, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Sales, Management
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Apple moves 1 million iPhones in 3 days; 39 percent of buyers own PCs
- Apple said that it has sold 1 million iPhones over Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Given the activation hurdles, Apple's tally statement is stunning and well ahead of what Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster--one of the more bullish Apple followers out there--predicted. Munster estimated that Apple would hit...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, PC, Apple Inc., 3G, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Podcast: Churchill Club on Web 2.0 in the enterprise
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts examines Web 2.0's use in the enterprise. Can companies go from Dilbert to dude? The event's speakers include: Steve Bendt, Senior Manager, Social Technology, Best Buy René Bonvanie, Senior Vice...
- Tags: Web, Vice President, Podcasts, Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- News to know: Google Apps; Vista UAC; Microsoft Echoes; Comcast; Dell
- Notable headlines: Garett Rogers: Google App Engine pricing a disappointment Ed Bott: Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time Sunbelt Blog: Microsoft: What we got here is a failure to communicate Larry Dignan: Dell delivers: Is a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Vista UAC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Service Bus, Telecom & Utilities, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?
- In this month's CIO magazine, Bruce Schneier publishes one of his best columns ever. "How to Sell Security" starts with a common-sense argument about the psychological dynamics of why and how we as humans respond to sales pitches. It ends with this astute observation about why some computer security companies...
- Tags: Sales, Security, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Are we all just cognitive surplus?
- Clay Shirky, and his truly handsome hairline, is not into the ragehol like I am. That is, he does not anger easily. But he admits to nearly losing it recently, when after describing a Wikipedia skirmish to a TV producer, he got the question ...
- Tags: Surplus, Shirky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Wiki, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Why I didn't like "Microhoo"
- Why I didn't like "Microhoo"Two essays jostling.Microsoft has made an investment in MSN, and that investment has not been paying well. Search is a related source of income, and that component of the business could also be improved on the balance sheet.The purchase of Yahoo would add the #2...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, Development tools, Microsoft Corp., content company, advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Why I didn't like "Microhoo"
- Yesterday was not a good day to be Jerry Yang. A year after returning to the helm of the company he co-founded, Yang found himself faced with an unsolicited bid from Microsoft, one that offered to pay a 50% premimum over the price of Yahoo stock. Though not ruling the...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Developer Orientation, Team Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, DVR, Management, Investment, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lost
- Yahoo on Monday responded to Microsoft's weekend "negotiate or we're launching a proxy war or pulling our offer" love letter. The gist: Increase your offer or get lost. Give credit to Yahoo for sheer moxie (or maybe it's stupidity). But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer can't be happy...
- Tags: Transaction, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Value, Proposal, Steve, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Microsoft makes bid for Yahoo; May change the search game; Bid could rise
- Microsoft said Friday that it is making an unsolicited offer of $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, to buy Yahoo in a move that would give the software giant more market share and become a significant threat to Google. In a statement, Microsoft would allow Yahoo shareholders...
- Tags: Game, Shareholder, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Proposal, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!
- Microsoft just announced a $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the half-cash, half-stock offer in a brutal carrot-and-stick open letter to Yahoo!'s board of directors. The Redmond giant appears to laying the groundwork for a hostile takeover if it comes to that. Ballmer...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Common Stock, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
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