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The Hispanic Market is Soaring - Marketers Take Notice!
November 4, 2009
The Hispanic Market Is Set to Soar | www.adweek.com
Hispanics are a critical target for US marketers in coming years. They are growing in size, influence, buying power, and have a young audience that is just entering their high earning and spending years. This target will have to be handled differently than a typical US target, as culture plays a bigger part in their lives. Language will be more important even as most will have English language skills. And yes, they are wired! However complex, the numbers will make it worthwhile.
Competition Affected Slump In Docomo’s Profit
November 4, 2009
Docomo sees profits drop 21%, revises guidance | www.telecompaper.com
Inspite of having a control on half of the Japan’s mobile market NTT Docomo reported a drop in its profit by 21%. Since Japan’s market is reaching its maturity, it is facing tremendous competitive pressure within and outside its domestic market. Docomo is losing its subscriber to competitors like Softbank, KDDI and eMobile. Thus Docomo’s slump in profit is helping its competitors to make a gain.
Will the iPhone bring New Customers to Orange UK?
November 4, 2009
Orange to sell iPhone in UK from 10 Nov | www.totaltele.com
How can Orange gain competitor advantage over the other mobile operators by selling the iPhone?This analysis looks at the areas where Orange can differentiate.
AT&T, Inc. versus Verizon Wireless – Misleading Information? Wow!!!
November 4, 2009
AT&T Sues Verizon Over Wireless Coverage Ads | online.wsj.com
AT&T is suing Verizon Wireless over information it is calling misleading. Ain’t nothing new here.
Nokia to Close N-Gage and Refining Ovi Strategy
November 4, 2009
Nokia to close N-Gage platform | www.telecompaper.com
Nokia has been toying with mobile services for a while, but N-Gage has never been a success. Will Nokia learn from this, to close the chapter or to better define Ovi strategy?
Is it the end of the miracle for Brocade ?
November 3, 2009
Network Specialist Brocade Up for Sale | online.wsj.com
With the recent article on WSJ, we all understand and realize that Brocade is ready for a marriage. And many people to say "all that just for this", some others will applaud the move when it will be official if it will happen. Is Brocade just a miracle ? Several key steps and events allowed Brocade to grow, survive and navigate until now but the future of the company is fuzzy, the market changes with Ethernet, SSD and commodity everywhere, Virtualization and Cloud Computing development.
Yahoo’s Online Advertising Has Stabilized After The Economic Slump
November 3, 2009
Yahoo: Online Advertising Has Stabilized | www.businessweek.com
Yahoo’s online advertising business has witnessed a rapid emergence in its revenue in the last quarter and a dropdown in its search and display segment. Similarly Google has also shown a modest growth in this market. The report submitted by these companies showed the current and future outlook of online advertisement market. This shows that this market is stabilizing and may show improvement in coming future.
Good news for both the Data Loss Prevention and the Encryption Marketplace
November 3, 2009
Are Judges Cracking Down On Data Breach Corporate Victims? | www.storefrontbacktalk.com
Possible good news for Symantec Vontu, Fidelis, EMC RSA, Voltage, Verdasys, Trend Micro LeakProof, Websense's Data Endpoint, McAfee Reconnex and PGP.
3D Television without glass and with 3D-2D option
November 3, 2009
[FPDI] 3M Film Realizes 3D Panel Viewable With Naked Eye | techon.nikkeibp.co.jp
(1) 3D viewers prefer to view 3D images without wearing glasses, without paying high price, without sacrificing resolution and with option to change from 3D to 2D mode(2) Companies promoting 3D TV with glasses need to have a re-look at the unique technique of Sumitomo 3M Ltd that satisfies most of what consumers need in 3D TV. (3) The price penalty for Sumitomo 3M technique needs to be watched. There is a clear signal here for the domination of this novel 3M film in 3D TV application.
The inevitable convergence of releasing windows
November 3, 2009
Video-on-demand hot in November | www.videobusiness.com
Now faster than slower the different releasing windows, first on Home entertainment and then all around, are collapsing.Even against stated resilience to change the releasing model, studios are forced by the demand generated by technology advances.Finally, a day will come in which the consumer will truly have a choice in how it will feed on entertainment.
Switzerland sues Google over Street View privacy concerns
November 13, 2009
Here Come the Droids! A brief review of Verizon Wireless' new Droid line-up.
November 11, 2009
October 30, 2009
Vodafone Orange Iphone Deal Ends Two Years Exclusivity Of O2 In UK
October 5, 2009
IPhone Coma Mode puts Apple in the ICU
September 19, 2009