Posts Categorized: industry analysis

Bowing to Critics and Market Forces, RIM’s Co-Chiefs Step Aside

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Description: Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who made the BlackBerry a leading business tool but then presided over its precipitous decline, said they would step down on Monday as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of Research in Motion. Source: nytimes .com Date: Jan 22, 2012 Stiff competition from the Apple iPhone and phones using Google’s Android… Read more »

Apple lifts the veil on its plans to remake the educational landscape.

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Description: Apple wants Schools to center on Ipads Source: cnn .com Date: Jan 17, 2012 Questions for discussion: Who are the winners in using this technology to transform the text book industry? 2. Who are the losers in using this technology to transform the text book industry?

PC Makers Embracing Ultrabooks

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Description: As the sales of personal computers slow — whether because of a weak world economy or the popularity of the iPad — PC makers have been looking for the next big thing to jolt buyers and increase profit margins. Source: nytimes .com Date: Jan 15, 2012 Helping to drive Apple’s growth is its MacBook… Read more »

Cellphones Test Strength of Gym Rules

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Description: LIKE movie theaters and libraries, many fitness clubs have insisted for years that their workout areas should be cellphone-free. Source: www.nytimes.com Date: December 7, 2011 Their logic is as simple and straightforward as a push-up: they want to prevent people from yakking on their phones and annoying the fitness buffs who want to crank… Read more »

Codecademy says it can turn anyone into a Web programmer

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Description: It’s a tough economy out there, but there’s at least one skill in high demand: programming.  Industry veterans insist that almost anyone can master the basics of software coding. Source: cnn.com Date: Nov 28, 2011 “Coding is going to be the literacy of the 21st Century, and we think we have the easiest way… Read more »

Peggy Noonan On Steve Jobs And Why Big Companies Die

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Description: The salesmen who led the companies were smart and eloquent, but “they didn’t know anything about the product.” In the end this can doom a great company, because what consumers want is good products. Source: www.forbes.com Date: Nov 23, 2011 What’s interesting is that Steve Jobs lived long enough to show us at  Apple… Read more »

“Groupon” Your Business MSNBC

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Description: Groupon has had huge growth and success in the area of marketing businesses.  Is there any downside in using Groupon for small business? Source: Msnbc.com Date: November 21/2011 Questions: Is Groupon something that can benefit all businesses? Why? Or Why not? 2.  What criteria would you use as a business manager in trying to… Read more »

Smartphones join stethoscopes in the doctor’s first aid kit

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Description: Dr. Mitchell led the development of ResolutionMD Mobile, the world’s first smartphone radiology product to win regulatory approval for primary diagnostic use. Source: globeandmail.com Date: Nov 16, 2011 For two years, the Mayo Clinic has been using the original desktop version of ResolutionMD to help stroke victims in rural Arizona. As such web-enabled technology… Read more »