{"id":5918,"date":"2007-09-24T08:12:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T08:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/armani-samsung-google-and-microsoft.html"},"modified":"2007-09-24T08:12:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T08:12:20","slug":"armani-samsung-google-and-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/armani-samsung-google-and-microsoft.html","title":{"rendered":"Armani, Samsung, Google and Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dexigner.com\/images\/content\/news\/12078.jpg\" \/>I am traveling today &ndash; and most of this week in fact. As I get ready to go, there are a few stories that have caught my eye this morning and may be worth a read. The first is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20941012\/\">collaboration<\/a> between Armani and Samsung who together will design a credit card sized phone. Will this be an iPhone killer? Probably not but it will likely be something the ultra-rich will be proud to keep in their virtual (and fat) wallets.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Another item worth reading is from the Wall Street Journal and is an <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119059784609936938.html?mod=mm_media_marketing_hs_left\">article<\/a> discussing how Microsoft is pushing the PR levers to stop the Google\/DoubleClick merger from taking place. You may recall I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/news\/2007\/04\/16\/2510402.htm\">mentioned<\/a> just how much power Google will have after this merger takes place. Here is that article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/news\/2007\/04\/16\/2510402.htm\">Google Achieves Behavioral Targeting Nirvana<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am traveling today &ndash; and most of this week in fact. As I get ready to go, there are a few stories that have caught my eye this morning and may be worth a read. The first is the collaboration between Armani and Samsung who together will design a credit card sized phone. Will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,171,172,160,163,199,188,189,118,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}