Posts Tagged: strategy

Once Wary, Apple Warms Up to Business Market

Posted by & filed under Apple, branding, business models, Ecommerce, iPad, iphone, marketing.

Description: Steven P. Jobs never cared much for selling Apple products to big businesses.  A funny thing happened, though, in the last few years. Big companies started buying Apple products — a lot of them — for their employees. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Nov 15, 2011 While corporate technology buyers say Apple does not try to… Read more »

Google Music Store Chases Apple’s ITunes 8 Years Too Late: Tech

Posted by & filed under Apple, EXAM ARTICLE, Google, google music, itunes, M-commerce, marketing.

Description: Google Inc. is entering the online music market almost a decade too late to pose a threat to Apple Inc., the largest seller of songs on the Web. Source: businessweek.com Date: Nov 16, 2011 The service, scheduled to be unveiled at a Google event in Los Angeles today, will let users store songs online… Read more »

What A Newspaper Should Be

Posted by & filed under EXAM ARTICLE, newspapers on-line, Uncategorized.

Description: The newspaper industry is being decimated. Source: Forbes.com.com Date: Oct 28, 2011 watch video at this link http://video.forbes.com/fvn/future-tech/morgan-guenther-what-a-newspaper-should-be Questions for discussion: Why is the newspaper being decimated? 2.  Where do you see the future going for this industry and how should one position their company to gain a competitive advantage?

Global glitch bruises RIM

Posted by & filed under Blackberry, branding, business models, Denial of service, EXAM ARTICLE, RIM, wireless networks.

Global glitch bruises RIM Description: A major technical glitch affected BlackBerry service across much of the globe Wednesday, delaying e-mails and messages for an estimated 30 to 40 million users – about half of RIM’s customer base of 70 million. Source: CNN.com & Globe and Mail.com Date: Oct 13, 2011 The problems, which began earlier… Read more »

Ticketmaster’s CEO Dishes on New Interactive Seat Maps

Posted by & filed under Business Intelligence, business models, Cloud Computing, e-payment, Ecommerce, M-commerce, revenue model.

Description: We’re one of the few ecommerce companies that gets to connect with each of ourcustomers in person. They tell us where they will be at a given date and time, down to the exact seat location. So enhancing the event with geosocial is a cool part of the evolution of the experience and part… Read more »

Best Buy Gets Amazoned: Is It Doomed?

Posted by & filed under branding, Business Intelligence, business models, Ecommerce, EXAM ARTICLE, industry analysis, M-commerce.

Description: Is it plausible to expect that Best Buy’s sales clerks will offer better advice than the many expert reviews on the Internet, augmented by the hundreds or thousands of customer reviews for Best Buy’s bread and butter products? Source: Forbes .com. Date: Sept 15, 2011 My friend, Paul Carroll, is peeved at Best Buy. … Read more »

Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers

Posted by & filed under Cloud Computing, Google, Green Computing, Green Tech, YouTube.

Description: Google released what was once among its most closely guarded secrets on Thursday: how much electricity its enormous computing facilities consume. Source: NYT.com Date: Sept 8, 2011 “The company said that its data centers continuously drew almost 260 million watts — about a quarter of the output of a nuclear power plant — to run Google… Read more »

A hacker’s attack sheds light on internet security holes

Posted by & filed under EXAM ARTICLE, fraud, hackers, IS ethics, Security.

Description: The encryption used by many websites to prevent eavesdropping on their interactions with visitors is not very secure. This technology is in use when Web addresses start with “https” (in which “s” stands for secure) and a closed lock icon appears on Web browsers. Source: Globe&Mail Date: April 7, 2011 The Electronic Frontier Foundation,… Read more »