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Consumers aren't in a buying mood this holiday, but there are opportunities for new companies.  I don't recommend the hi-tech plays that won't actualize for another decade, but rather look at some opportunities that should spark demand in a 1-3 year time frame.  Anyway, it is the holiday season,...

RIM, like Nextel before the merger with Sprint, needs to move with lightning speed into the consumer arena.  Apple and Google have huge advantages in this arena, with greater consumer know-how and a marketing reach that blows RIM out of the water.  In this article, I look beyond RIM's new...

The roll-out of the Google phone into Japan, through the largest carrier in the country and one of the data innovators, is a shot across the bow of Microsoft, RIM, and Nokia.  It is impossible to stem the tide of the new OS mafia -- from Apple, Google, and LiMo -- but if Microsoft doesn't wake...

I don't think the Sprint voluntary package is going to draw mass defections.  The market is too weak, and options for the unemployed are not rosy.  However, on the margin, higher up employees might be the most likely to bolt, and this post goes through a theoretical breakdown.

This PwC study really got me riled because it reflects a nonsensical version of the brand, one that can only be broadcast over the TV, that is just no longer true.  Sure, Comcast and Time Warner and ESPN may want you to believe it it true, but Google's interactive medium is the wave of the future,...

The release of the first "Google phone" certainly does not come at an ideal time, given the economic environment.  Sure, they can price high, then lower as everyone does.  However, the true measure of how long they can sustain the high price is looking at pent-up demand, which is done in this...

The ChangeWave survey paints an overly positive picture on Apple and Dell sales this year.  As Circuit City and Best Buy foreshadow, this holiday season will be awful for high-end products, especially those whose purchase can be forestalled.

Microsoft has a checkered history of product releases as of late -- from Vista to updated versions of Windows Mobile and Internet Explorer.  They seem to release minimal updates, expecting a non-demanding user not looking for vast improvements in user experience and features.  In the face...

Cox must have something up their sleeve with wireless.  Otherwise, why would they become a Sprint MVNO, right on the heels of the huge flame-outs by Amped, Helio, Disney, and others?  Bundling surely can't be the only answer, as there has been precious little proof behind that strategy; there...

Yahoo faces a miserable head wind entering this holiday season.  Retail marketers, those likely to drop big bucks around Turkey Day, are having a very bad Fall and may not chase the ghost of Christmas Future.  Yahoo's dependence on online display ad revenue could be disastrous for their holiday...