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Police were called to manage crowds in the UK this morning as depositors lost confidence in Northern Rock and attempted to withdaw funds en masse. Depositor concerns are believed to relate to weak loan to deposit ratios and fears about exposure to subprime mortgages. Banks mentioned among...

Playstation, the brand, stands for video games.  After it's in the living room, then Sony - through the Playstation Network & HOME - can tackle the other uses for the PS3.

In an age of collaboration & sharing, social sites should take a cue from the users by focusing on rev sharing agreements than on forcing ads on a generation of users accustomed to not having ads there in the first place.

Advertisers of all shapes and sizes will continue to hold advertising dollars back when it comes to social media for some very specific reasons.  These center on a lack of understanding of what "social media" entails, high profile mistakes that hit at the authenticity of media (i.e. Walmart...

Blackboard's financial picture looks rosy, but its technical underpinnings show significant wear.  This leaves the educational software company susceptible to competitive pressure.  University and K-12 buyers are becoming more sophisticated consumers of software, and Blackboard's sloppy design,...

The iPhone unlocking, via software, was inevitable, and, though it will likely only affect a small percentage of customers, international users will find it useful.  AT&T has already displayed their ire and may be walking into a customer relations faux pas.  Meanwhile, does Apple even...

Aside from video, there are the banner ads, sponsorships and even ad sense that will make up the whole of ad-based revenue from YouTube. And that doesn't include anything from mobile devices.

Google’s rapid entry into the mobile world is good news for the mobile industry, further signaling a new wave of innovation in an industry riddled with stagnation.  It also signals the next stage in wireless evolution, where the software players take over.  This article discusses that evolution....

Nokia is the best of a slow to innovate lot, with Motorola cradling its beloved RAZR in the rear, yet they have had problems producing for the U.S. market.  And, with limited success in producing copycats, the software players - Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo - are most likely to compete with Apple...

Due to a growing frustration with the narrow focus of Yellow Pages and the impractical language used to categorize businesses ans well as the definition of what is 'local' vs. 'long distance' people are turning to online search (translate Google) to find local businesses. As a specific example I use...