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How Apple Lost Control of its Branding
The one thing Apple does better than any other tech company is name products and technologies in an easy-to-understand manner. iPhone, iTunes, iPod, you get the idea. Sure there are some exceptions like adding an "S" after some of the...
On Screen Size, Apple is From Mars, Samsung from Venus
For many years now I have waxed poetic about the need for Apple to create a large screen phone. With the latest iteration of the iPhone, the “5” they decided to elongate the device but not make it wider. To...
With Tablets and Smartphones Eating the PC, What Can Microsoft Do?
These are very dark days for people who work for many divisions of Microsoft as tablets and smartphones have absolutely decimated the PC market as evidenced by a decline of 14% in sales of PCs last quarter. This news comes...
IDC: PC Sales Decline Substantially
According to IDC, PC sales are in a tailspin with 76.3 million units sold in the first quarter of 2013. This number represents a decline of 13.9% compared to the forecast decline of 7.7%. These are the worst numbers since...
Windows 8 Relegated to Budget Status?
Microsoft seems to make an OS you HAVE to buy while Apple makes an OS you WANT to buy The Microsoft Store has good news for people waiting to pick up a new Windows 8 machine… Lower prices on relatively...
Apple Email Swings Back at Galaxy S4
For Apple, this past week has got to have been the biggest nightmare the company has faced in well over a decade. Cupertino went from being on top of the world in the eighties to crashing in the...
Research Shows More Innovation under a Joint Chairman/CEO
Many of us know people who struck it rich in an IPO and then decided to retire or take time off. If a percentage of people in a company decide to leave the organization when it decides to go public,...
Advertising - A Key Part to Samsung's Success
Being in the tech field I often get to speak to lots of engineers who explain to me they aren’t swayed by advertising. Quite often they tell me they don’t think people in general are swayed either. What they do...
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...
Google, YouTube, Apple and Beats: Music Options Galore
There is good and bad news for Pandora today. The streaming radio leader has for the first time found itself in a position to compete for radio advertisers on an equal footing thanks to its inclusion in an influential ratings...
Apple's Magic Dependent on iWatch Success?
At this point we are all aware Apple has a new watch in the works and it is even thought to be released later this year. Pundits have even determined this product could be vastly more profitable for Cupertino than...
Mobidia Tackles Bill Shock at MWC2013
Chris Hill (pictured) the VP of Marketing at Mobidia was euphoric in telling me about the growth of the company's new app My Data Manager which has had 3.5 million downloads in the past 12 months. As bill shock...
MWC 2013 Day One Trends
After a day of meetings there are some strong takeaways from the first day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Interestingly devices played a large and yet small factor in my analysis. First off The Sony Xperia Z tablet was...
Steve Wozniak to Keynote ITEXPO Las Vegas
We are extremely proud to announce Steve Wozniak is a keynoter at ITEXPO in Las Vegas, Thursday, August 29 at 10am. After the amazing keynote of John Sculley, past Apple CEO weeks back at this event* in Miami (video...
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...
Is Apple Too Sexy for MWC?
In deciding not to exhibit at the Macworld events, CES and MWC, Apple has shown the world that it doesn’t need others to be successful. It can control the conversation far better when it holds its own press conferences...
John Sculley Mesmerizes Audience at ITEXPO (Video)
John Sculley gave an amazing keynote at StartupCamp7 located at ITEXPO Miami where he discussed his career, his relationship with Pepsi, Apple, Steve Jobs and the future of technology. You may recall my live blog about the keynote. Here...
Apple Has 2 Weeks to Fix its 6.1 iOS Update
Apple’s 6.1 iOS update seems to be one of the most challenged updates the company has released as users are complaining of battery drain, 3G and syncing issues. The situation has caused one carrier Vodafone to tell people not to...
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...
Does This Hire Tell us The Future of Apple's TV?
There is speculation today that the hire of OLED expert James(Jueng-Gil) Lee by Apple shows the company is serious about developing its own TV. A real Apple TV with a screen is the rumor that never dies - analysts have...
Dell+Microsoft=Apple?
Dell is in a mind-bogglingly large long-rumored deal to go private worth $24 billion and of note is business partner Microsoft has decided to invest in the company which has struggled for many years. The company still has strength...
John Sculley Takes Stage at ITEXPO, Startup Camp7
Live Blog John Sculley has taken the stage and the audience is riveted so far. He was the first MBA the company hired. He became the biggest advocate of creating a relationship with the consumer and the brand. Talk about...
Apps for Apes - Now How Big is the Tablet Market?
The multibillion dollar smartphone and tablet market may be bigger than analysts previously realized if you factor in the amount of apes and orangutans that will be using them. Before you check to see if this piece is an April...
Apple needs an iPhablet
For over 2-and-a-half years, Apple has watched the smartphone competition grow taller and wider and it eventually capitulated on a taller iPhone size with the latest iPhone 5. But it is still way behind when it comes to providing total...
Gesture-Based Eye-Tracking, Hand-Sensing Tech Coming but What of Standards?
Microsoft certainly popularized gesture-based computing with the Xbox Kinect but it seems one of the next areas where this sort of interface will have a big impact is in your automobile. Hyundai in fact unveiled a concept car recently...
