Posts By: Jim Clark

The world’s fastest Internet access—who’s got it?

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Description: New research ranks the countries with the fastest Internet connections, and all 50 U.S. states too. Source: Fortune.com Date: Jan 24 , 2011 The speed at which people around the world connect to the Internet is climbing at a 14% annual clip and now averages nearly 2 megabits per second, according Akamai’s “State of the… Read more »

What’s Driving Apple’s 10 Billion App Success?

Posted by & filed under Apple, business models, Ecommerce, Google, industry analysis, iPad, revenue model, smart phones, smartphones.

Description: Apple’s iPhone App Store launched in July 2008. In just over two and a half years, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users have downloaded 10,000,000,000 applications for their iOS devices. Source: Informationweek.com Date: Jan 24 , 2011 “With more than … seven billion apps [downloaded] in the last year alone — the App Store… Read more »

Microsoft Steps Up Competition With Dynamics CRM 2011

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Description: Hoping to take a bite out of Salesforce.com’s fast growth, Microsoft announced aggressive promotional pricing of $34 per user, per month. That’s well below the cost of Salesforce.com Source: Informationweek.com Date: Jan 18 , 2011 We give you full sales, service and marketing functionality in our standard service where Salesforce.com does not offer marketing functionality or… Read more »

So far for magazines, tablets are a bitter pill

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Description: Since Apple introduced the iPad last year, publishers have poured millions of dollars into apps in the hopes that the device could revolutionize the industry by changing the way magazines are read and sold to consumers. Source: Globe and Mail.com Date: Jan 17 , 2011 “If you look at the Apple store,” said David Carey,… Read more »

In the Works: A Google Mobile Payment Service?

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Description: Google (GOOG) is considering building a payment and advertising service that would let users buy milk and bread by tapping or waving their mobile phones against a register at checkout Source: Businessweek.com Date: Jan 4 , 2011 The service may make its debut this year, say the two, who requested anonymity because the plans… Read more »

Defying Conventional Wisdom to Sell Glasses Online

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Description: Shopping skeptics said people would never buy certain things —shoes, diamond rings, cars — online because they needed to see the products in person. They were wrong. E-commerce companies have found success in all of those fields. Source: NYT.com Date: Jan 16 , 2011 But some purchases still happen mostly offline, including one of the… Read more »