Articles in the Computing Category

Posted in Advertising, Computing, Design, Internet, Marketing, Media on 14 September 2007
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You may have read our post about the cyberstalking crew over at Fetchback here and their odious idea to stalk your personal web habits by snooping and tracking the sites you visit with purpose of then serving up ads from their ‘clients’ to you, repeatedly, until you submit to clicking on one of the ads. […]

Posted in Advertising, Apple, Computing, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media on 13 September 2007
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From SurveyU.com, 15% of college students own or are now ready to own an iPhone when their contract expires and the NEVER WILING TO BUY AN IPHONE has dropped to 11%. In a flash poll conducted the evening of September 5, 1,000 college students were surveyed to gauge the impact of the announced price reductions. […]

Posted in Apple, Computing, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Retail on 12 September 2007
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First, ringtones are not a huge deal to me – other than me mocking the idiotic choices that people select for their ringtones … because nothing could be more gangsta than having a Young Jeezy ringtone go off as you ask your patient if they are Delta Dental 😉 You could not be more street […]

Posted in Apple, Computing, Design, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Mobile, Music, Retail on 11 September 2007
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Are we getting a repeat of the iPod? There it is – a big target as big as daylight – right by the broad side of the barn … yet, after 6 years, you still get comments & reviews of competiting products that offer faint praise such as … “Slightly more expensive than the iPod,” […]
Posted in Computing, Film, Financial, Gadgets, Marketing, Media, TV on 9 September 2007
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As we covered, buying an HD set is not that easy – now, our entertainment format is under the same deadly dull cascade of choices. And I say that because it is tedious and for us consumers, pointless. We have two competing “high-definition” DVD formats along with our original DVD format. The two new choices […]

Posted in Advertising, Apple, Computing, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Mobile on 6 September 2007
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The just announced price drop of the iPhone to $399 is an interesting launch price scenario that would make for an interesting research piece or PhD thesis. During the launch of any product now, people go look at eBay as the “marketplace” for judging hype and of course, supply & demand. Interestingly enough, during the […]
Posted in Computing, Gadgets, Internet, Marketing, Mobile on 5 September 2007
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Palm actually comes to its senses and realizes NO ONE is willing to pay $500 for a giant Palm magnifying device … “Based on early feedback on the Foleo, the company knew it needed to improve the product before selling it, company CEO Ed Colligan said in a blog entry on Palm’s site in which […]

Posted in Apple Mac, Computing, Gadgets, iPhone, Toys, TV on 31 August 2007
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Elgato Turbo H.264 USB Stick is a gorgeous looking device – sleek, small, elegant and all black – simply plug into a USB port and you’ve offloaded H.264 converting and compression off of your graphics card and processor and onto the device. It will speed up video conversion and encoding by a factor of 2 […]
Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Financial, Internet, Marketing, Retail on 30 August 2007
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Many people are puzzled by Apple’s seeming reticence to jump full speed into the enterprise market … well, here are the reasons why it’s not on top of Apple’s to-do list: (NOTE – GENERALIZATIONS ABOUND!) Enterprise Market is now a Commodity Market From 1986 to 1998, it was THE market to be in. It WAS […]

Posted in Advertising, Computing, Internet, Marketing on 28 August 2007
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