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- Is the Amazon Kindle going to be a monthly fee nightmare?
- Is the Amazon Kindle going to be a monthly fee nightmare?It looks pretty good...I think the Kindle looks like a pretty nice device. The device itself is a little costly, but I don't think the services are.Take the NY Times: Weekly delivery in my area is $5.50/wk. ...
- Tags: PDAs, subscription fee, Miller, Amazon Kindle, monthly fee nightmare, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- The pros and cons of temporary phone number services
- The pros and cons of temporary phone number servicesdial outI work from home repairing compters took one into repair but he had MSN dial up. My family all carries cel's and we have HSI. But no phone. Had to go use a fiends fax line to finish job. Was done...
- Tags: Fax, subscription fee, Jaduka
- Discussion threads 2006-11-08
- More details on the onerous MTV Urge license agreement
- More details on the onerous MTV Urge license agreementNeeds of the industryLets be clear about this. the only need the industry has is to stay in business - and that is not one of my needs. in order to stay in business, industry needs to understand that I will...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Windows XP, SMC, Vista-XP, Media Player Urge Dot-Net delivery, subscription fee, Media Player Urge Dot-Net, Win-Troll, Microsoft Corp., MTV, license agreement, agreement
- Discussion threads 2006-05-17
- Microsoft roots for the home team--Windows
- Microsoft roots for the home team--Windows"Money For Microsoft" by Dire WarningThe realization that to get DRM'ed content will require you to do so though Windows XP and/or Microsoft ...[ With deepest apologies to Mark Knofler and Dire Straits ]"Money for Microsoft" by Dire WarningSung by Steve Ballmer, backing by Bill...
- Tags: MLB, Microsoft Corp., Win-XP, subscription fee, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2004-04-08
- Microsoft on every DVD?
- Microsoft on every DVD?Oh joyYet another market that will be thrown around and dragged to its knees having to deal with these sorry criminals. Microsoft better keep running fast. Its monopoly position will sonn be fading into the distance..Money for Microsoft:You must buy Win-XP!Microsoft and the hollywood and recording industies...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Desktops, DVD, Microsoft Corp., Win-XP, Microsoft Windows Media Player, subscription fee
- Discussion threads 2004-02-27
- Microsoft, Disney partner on digital media
- Microsoft, Disney partner on digital mediaLosing FocusMS seems to be shifting their focus to content and delivery. Instead of focusing on building better products they're looking for other markets. Really, when you think about it, those two are a perfect match: Disney paired up with a Micky Mouse...
- Tags: Business structures, Digital music, digital media, Win-XP, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Media Player, Media Player Passport Dot-Net, Media Player Passport Dot-Net delivery, subscription fee, Disney Corp., Win-Troll, partnership
- Discussion threads 2004-02-08
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- How SlideRocket plans to make money
- How SlideRocket plans to make moneyWhy?After reading about the product I'm left with a "so what" and "why" would I want it feeling. I can see some niches where it might fit, but with the exception of those niches, why would you want to be on a monthly subscription...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, nich, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable
- In a scathing indictment of Apple's MobileMe service, the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg calls the service "far too flawed to be reliable." The US$99 per year service – which is supposed to push contacts, calendars and email from iPhone to computer – has been hobbling along...
- Tags: Apple Inc., MobileMe, E-mail, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale
- updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...
- Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Zuora: the future business model?
- I recently caught up with Tien Tzou, CEO of Zuora, the billing management company that offers Z-billings, an on-demand service. In his opinion, the business model of the future will be subscription based and this brings challenges of its own. "Pricing is a much more complex...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Billing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat
- Can Jonathan Miller do for Yahoo what he tried to do for AOL? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Investor Carl Icahn, who reached a compromise with Yahoo this morning to avoid a nasty proxy battle for seats on the company's board of directors,...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Miller, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Team Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow
- When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...
- Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Qik out of private beta
- Over the weekend, Qik came out of private beta. Jennifer Leggio has all the technical details, along with some insights in Robert Scoble's outburst about how kyte.tv would kill off Qik and Flixwagon. One claim the company makes over at VentureBeat is that they have gotten latency...
- Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Business Model, Beta, Qik, Jennifer Leggio, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir and I was asked to register...
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DirecTV, Satellite, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...Continuing Saga to show how great D* is now adayFrom a 7+ year customer and I am a paper thin from calling it for D*.http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=133090RE: DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...I've been with DTV since December 1994. I am also a FCC certified card carrying...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, DirectTV, Ma'am, Well HERE, DirecTV, closet
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?
- After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as Aug. 1. But wait. This week, one of the FCC commissioners proposed even more...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Satellite Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Music, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystar
- The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystaranticompetitive argumentThe problem with the anticompetitive argument is that the company engaging in the activity has to command a substantial share of the overall market. Apple doesn't even have 8% of the market. Also, Psystar never even tried to license Apple's intellectual...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Psystar, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges
- Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far from happy. Under the title: "Higher maintenance costs upset SAP customers ," Computerwoche interviewed Gunther Rheinhart, executive member of the...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Mittelstand, Gunther Rheinhart, Auto-renew, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Can AOL make or break the Microsoft-Yahoo deal? Mark your calendars.
- AOL has reportedly made its way into the Microsoft-Yahoo story and, once again, there's a feeling of uncertainty surrounding its future. Back in the day, AOL was one of the biggest names on the Internet and its merger with Time Warner drew huge headlines. But since then,...
- Tags: Shareholder, Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
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