By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 25
Technology has resulted in massive margin compression among industry after industry. Retailers have to struggle to make money to pay their brick...
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Tagged app, app store, apple, consumer electronics, currency, financial, gadget, iphone, wireless
By Peter on Thursday, May 24
EarthLink is really pulling out the umbrella to get it to rain in Cloud. EarthLink picked up XO's former CMO, Michael Toplisek,...
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Tagged cloud computing, earthlink, email, security, vdi, virtual desktop, virtualization
By Peter on Wednesday, May 23
This came across my twitter stream this week:"Must-read for founders: A VC explains how to build a killer value proposition" on VentureBeat...
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Tagged agents, hosted pbx, marketing, sales, sellecom, value, vc
By Peter on Wednesday, May 23
How do you offer your broadband customers mobile access? There are a couple of options. One is MVNO, reselling cellular data cards...
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Tagged att, cableco, cellular, mso, vzw, wi-fi, wireless
By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 23
Yahoo has taken the mobile browser and improved it dramatically by integrating search and allowing users to view results rapidly without the...
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Tagged apple, axis, chrome, firefox, google, ios, ipad, searchme, yahoo
By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 23
If you want to be involved - intimately involved with the manufacturing process behind a product you purchase then I suggest you...
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Tagged apple, consumer electronics, crowdfunding, gadget, ipad, keyboard, kickstarter, touchfire
By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, May 22
Sonos makes a great WiFi-based sound system allowing wire-free sound in any room in your home. The only problem with this strategy...
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Tagged airplay, amazon, apple, consumer electronics, gadget, sonos, speaker, stereo
By Jim Machi on Tuesday, May 22
Last week in Thailand, Dialogic held an event for our APAC customers. Although Dialogic is evolving to provide more and more...
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Tagged Dialogic, Service provider, Value-added service, VAS
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By Tom Keating on Tuesday, May 22
Skype announced a new contest to find the next great music band using their Say it With Skype Facebook app, an engaging-group...
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Tagged app, band, black cards, facebook, journey, justin bieber, music, recording, say it with skype, skype, video
By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, May 22
Cable companies having come together to share their WiFi networks in order to compete somewhat with 3G and 4G networks are also...
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Tagged cable, optimum online, television, tv, video
By Tom Keating on Monday, May 21
A new version of Skype was just released to the Apple App Store. No new major features to report - just some...
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Tagged apple, ios, skype, voip
By Peter on Monday, May 21
There is no special sauce.Everyone has the same technology (or will 5 minutes after you market yours).It was never about the technology.It...
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Tagged customer service, marketing, strategy, technology
By Tom Keating on Monday, May 21
After Facebook's disastrous IPO leading some to speculate Facebook's actual worth is in the $16-$24 range, it's worth examining what went wrong....
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Tagged ads, advertisements, affiliate, apple, cafepress, facebook, mobile advertising, netflix, ppc
By Peter on Friday, May 18
Just looking at the news makes me think that the cellular industry is having a week of mayhem. Besides the mess I...
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Tagged att, cableco, cellular, duopoly, fcc, spectrum, sprint, vzw, wireless
By Peter on Friday, May 18
I was in NYC (Tribeca) this week to spend the day at a Q&A session with Seth Godin. He is a marketing...
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Tagged books, marketing, powerpoint