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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...

In just this instance, Apple's arrogance may be its undoing over the holiday season and into next year.  It is generally wise, and always tempting, to stay true to the brand, and, in Apple's case, deliver premium pricing on its premium product.  However, there are several pricing strategies...

Google will see slowing search business domestically, of course, but they continue to expand in other arenas that take advantage of their competitive positioning.  Like Amazon.com and Apple, they make moves based on the opportunity, even if the opportunity may not be apparent to the investment...

The Baltimore Sprint deployment tells us a lot.  In many ways, it shows us the predominance of relationships and ease in choosing a locale as opposed to the attraction of the demographic; if the opposite was the case, Baltimore never would have been selected.  As for the LTE v WiMax debate,...

Smarter RFID is leading to growth in some applications, such as vehicle tracking and food freshness, and even management of assets such as laundry.  But some of the hype from the Wal-Mart requirements and California drug e-pedigree legislation is dissipating: the technology is complicated and expensive,...

Until visual image searching gets a lot better, you'll be relying on words (metadata) to find and make sense of your images, whether personal photos or a corporate image library.  Thousands of hours have been spent muddling toward standards, and it would take thousands more to get compete agreement. ...

Google's Android starts with one big disadvantage -- time -- and one big advantage -- brand name.  But they are competing against another huge brand in Apple who also controlled the hardware and software.  Though this is directly in line with their strategy, they are leaving part of the OS...

China Mobile is keen on the Android phones.  In addition to HTC, China Mobile has formed a joint venture with a local startup to build Android phones. 

The HTC Android phone will be closely compared with the 3G iPhone.  Most likely the look and feel won't be as sleek as the iPhone.  However, Android phones will have the processing speed that is hard to beat.  In addition, the open handset model features may not initially be impressive. ...

1) The Calfornia public K-12 education system has been suffering from budget cuts for decades, is not at the forefront, and is these days among the bottom 10% of the states in terms of standards and results. 2) It used to produce higher-quality student results two decades ago but since...