Verizon May Have Made an Error
July 16, 2007
Was Verizon Really Wrong To Pass On The iPhone? | telecom.seekingalpha.com
Source of revenue when seeling iPhones: revenue from device and revenue from plan/subscription. Both need one another. Newer devices garner attention while older devices reach end of life. Gaining control of the platform is the end issue.
June 19, 2007
Tech's biggest trend: everywhere | money.cnn.com
The tech world is going to shift as new customers/users come online from other developing nations.
CRM and the everchanging state of change
June 1, 2007
Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.com | blogs.zdnet.com
Salesforce.com is the next Siebel, the next CRM has-been, the next low-priced software buyout opportunity, unless somehow the company gets sold before its stock begins to tank or it engineers a remarkable turnaround from its current moribund strategy SF.com doesn’t have a critical mass of customers doing deep integration, and competitors like SAP and Oracle, and now Microsoft too, are all offering deep integration to their respective software stacks in addition to coming out with on-demand CRM offerings. Deep integration can happen in the context of an on demand model for SAP, Microsoft, and Oracle customers, and therefore all of SF.com’s strategic differentiation has been lost.
End of Salesforce? I don't think so.
May 29, 2007
Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.com | blogs.zdnet.com
Salesforce fills its niche very well. It remains true to its original cause and has a large and loyal customer base. Its not all things to all people, not does it make sense in all CRM opportunities, but there is no competitor out there that is as robust at what it does. As long as they keep the price highly competitve, they will remain a viable provider.
May 23, 2007
Microsoft To Acquire Online Marketing Firm aQuantive For $6 Billion | searchengineland.com
Microsoft announced plans buy digital ad firm aQuantive, which owns Atlas and Avenue A | Razorfish for $6 billion in cash. This is apparently the biggest acquisition in Microsoft's history. Microsoft won a competitive bidding situation
Venezuelan government takes control of leading telecom firm
May 14, 2007
Venezuelan government takes control of leading telecom firm | www.caribbeannetnews.com
The Venezuelan state will own 86.21 percent of the shares of CANTV The transaction was expected to be finalized in an extraordinary meeting on May 21 Chavez announced his nationalization drive shortly after his landslide reelection in December.
May 8, 2007
Big Money in Little Screens | www.nytimes.com
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all trained their sights on cellphones, which they see as the next great battleground in the Internet search wars.
Search services that pinpoint a phone’s location using the Global Positioning System or that accept voice commands are coming out of the labs.
Yahoo/Microsoft, means more to Yahoo
May 8, 2007
Yahoo shares up on Microsoft talk | news.bbc.co.uk
Yahoo seems to be fading in the rear-view mirror of Google, yet has some features that loyal users still favor.
Google's got its sights on the corporate desktop, so how does Microsoft intend to maintain its dominance.
Can this combination squeeze Google out of its explosive growth path? I don't think so.
Web search giant is scoring early wins in wireless airwaves
May 4, 2007
Google Goes Wireless | www.businessweek.com
Google's growing interest in the wireless industry and the rising stakes in the battle for a crucial chunk of airwaves.
Goggle is working with EarthLink to provide a free Wi-Fi wireless broadband network in San Francisco.
Google is going to spread its mobile search application far and wide.
Google is developing its own wireless handset.
Video Conferencing Ready for Mainstream?
May 2, 2007
Cisco Teams with Fox For TelePresence Product Launch | www.marketingshift.com
Video conferencing has always been a nice idea. Early experiments prior to 2000 were interesting novelties, but really not very practical. Over the past several years, only the largest global corporations have had some success using video conferencing in limited scenarios.
Is video conferencing nearly ready for mainstream deployment in corporations? If so, who will be the major providers of this specialized equipment?
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