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Is The Media Tweeting Away its Profits?
I’d like to start by saying my heart goes out to the victims of the horrific Boston Marathon and their families. Having said that I read with interest that The New York Times, Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal took...
Has the SEC killed the Press Release?
Has the SEC just signed the death warrant for the press release market? Possibly. Standard operating procedure today is to distribute press releases through established services like Business Wire and PR Newswire but thanks to the SEC, you can...
Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and Google: France's War With US Tech Firms
Ten years ago the people of France had to deal with a major challenge – English tech words were beginning to become more popular than baguettes. As a result, the country’s Culture Ministry banned the term e-mail and replaced it...
IPgallery Helps Carriers Become Social Hub and More
Communications service providers once the center of the customer's world have awoken to the new reality - social and apps are the new hub. In fact, Facebook, Twitter and a wave of other social networks have fully overtaken the telephone...
WebRTC Advisory Board Announced
One of the more exciting bits of news this week has to do with TMC and partners choosing the Inaugural WebRTC advisory board. After the huge success of the first WebRTC World show in Santa Clara, California, we wanted to...
Scam Users, Accumulate Facebook Likes, Buy a Ferrari
Bitdefender Labs recently reported that a site showing kittens and unicorns suggested users download a “business flash” plugin in order to see a video. At this point the plugin takes control of the user’s computer allowing cookie information to be...
The Offspring of Siri and Raspberry Pi Controls Your Home
For those of you dreaming of the day when your voice can control your home, your wait is over – almost. There are a few demos floating around online showing how Siri’s responses to your commands can trigger the Raspberry...
How Steve Jobs Even Transformed Our Views on Management
Steve Jobs was such an amazing entrepreneur - even calling him the ultimate visionary doesn't seem to describe accurately how amazing he was at reinventing numerous business categories. Like so many creative visionaries, early in his career he lacked the...
Verizon MiFi and Boingo Indispensable
Some time back Verizon Wireless sent me a MiFi device to test and I have used it as a long-term review unit and am blown away at how useful it has become. Recently at ITEXPO in Miami I was able...
Age of Acceleration Literally Center Stage at ITEXPO
You may have seen my article in a multi-day USA Today insert recently where the topic was the Age of Acceleration. In it I detailed how the world is moving faster and technology is playing a crucial role in allowing...
It's an App Eat App World
Peter Bernstein has a great analysis piece on how the Unilever/Slim-Fast empire is struggling in-part because the company was too slow to come out with an app as well as the fact that other competitors have expanded their offerings to...
How CBS Just Ruined the Integrity of CNET
Recently the editors at CNET were about to give the best of show award at CES to Dish Hopper. The trouble started when CBS alerted CNET to a legal conflict over this ad-skipping product which shows recorded programs on iPads....
Important Tech News of the Day Dec 14, 2012
Amazon Prime Instant Video app for iOS is out Alcatel Lucent says providing video to devices is a great new revenue opportunity for carriers Google Just Settled a Six-Year Dispute with Belgian Publishers IT spending will pick up in...
Tech News of the Day Dec 13, 2012
Google is under public pressure to pay more taxes as the news of it “funneling” $9.8B of its revenue to Bermuda helped it halve its tax bill. The pressure is coming from the US and Europe. I find it ironic...
FakeFollowers: What is your Net Twitter Following?
A new service called Fakefollowers allows Twitter users to see how many of their followers are of high quality or “real.” Consider this service to be lumped in with other social tools like Klout which is used to measure social...
WebRTC Expo 2012 Winding Down
Sorry for the delayed post - accidentally posted as "draft." Thanks to all of you who came to WebRTC Expo 2012 in South San Francisco – the show was amazingly successful thanks to many of you who took time from...
WebRTC: The Phone meets the Web
We have seen the multi-billion dollar communications market get disrupted as the phone met the IP network. In the video below Phil Edholm describes how with WebRTC, the phone meets the web. As he describes, even though IP communications has...
Amazon's Evolving Views on Patents
In the 1990 patent suits in tech were quite infrequent but today, there is more news on international patents than just about any other tech news category. That’s why I thought this research note from the Yankee Group was worth...
For Microsoft Surface, Is it Mission Impossible?
Microsoft, here is your mission. Take a device which has become synonymous with the term “post-PC era” and topple it. Go up against a company which is considered cool and somehow transform your image to be as cool. If you...
Anonymous May Have Just Taken Down Go Daddy and Related Sites
After spending five minutes trying to access Go Daddy with zero luck I reached out to my tech team who explained the site was out. The best way to follow the outage seems to be Twitter and there are some...
Does the iPhone 5 have the Wrong Form Factor?
We all know that in the past many iPhone and iPad rumors have been wrong so we shouldn’t get overly excited about leaked news regarding the form factor of the new iPhone 5. But since there are photos and videos...
Are Apple's Patent Lawsuits Dead Right?
I have often referred to patents between large tech firms as mutually assured destruction as any of these companies can sue others with a slew of patent infringements at once, counting on a few to be upheld by a court....
Smartphone Margin Decreases versus Beats by Dr. Dre
Recently I touched upon some of the differences between the automobile and tech spaces and in the past I have mentioned how Apple’s ability to price its products without discounting implies a stronger brand and moreover helps it sell in...
In Defense of Capitalism
I am fortunate to have watched my father at a young age start TMC – the company where I am CEO and turn it into a company which has helped feed thousands over its 40-year history when you consider contractors,...
At Stew Leonard's Deciding Who to Serve First
I had a fascinating trip recently to Stew Leonard’s where I witnessed employees having a conversation about customer service. If you aren’t familiar, “Stews” as we affectionately call it started in 1969 and is a huge grocery store in TMC’s...
