30 Jun 2010
The Faces?rch blog did a quick review of when people search for the terms “Microsoft” (Blue), “Linux” (Red), and “Apple” (Orange), and found two interesting trends in the data, more easily viewed over the last 90 days:
Windows? Well, with such a massive share of the market, I doubt Microsoft feels it needs to do much [...]
28 Jun 2010
But then again, maybe that argument doesn’t hold as much water as we want to believe. Right now, you can buy a Playboy magazine at any newsstand at practically any airport in the U.S., bring it on the plane, and flip through it to your heart’s content. You can even bring other adult materials with [...]
23 Jun 2010
Allowing journalists access to an uncensored Internet apparently isn’t on the International Olympic Committee’s list of things to do before the Beijing games begin next week.
When Chinese officials were bidding for the right to hold the games seven years ago, they assured international organizers that there would be ”complete freedom to report.” In April, Chinese [...]
22 Jun 2010
The analyst house believes that the number of consumers making payments using their mobile phones is set to soar from 32.9 million in 2008 to 103.9 million in 2011.
A recent Gartner study estimates that 189 billion mobile messages have been sent by U.S. mobile-phone subscribers in 2007. It forecasts 301 billion mobile messages sent in [...]
18 Jun 2010
Only a handful of people flat-out disagreed with him, Farmer said. “The linchpin of (that) argument is that they present an alternate hypothesis, that people are just used to the Facebook Platform, so they don’t participate in the forum anymore and that explains the decline.” But more likely, he said, Facebook is a less appetizing [...]
16 Jun 2010
But for many consumers at this point, it’s more of a lifestyle statement, argued Fisker. Buying a luxury hybrid electric car is like buying Apple’s iPhone when it first came out. Buyers of some of the first consumer-oriented electric cars will be technology early adopters, eager to be part of the future, he said.
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14 Jun 2010
The company calls it a first step in changing the way users search and consume Web content. “It’s a complete shift. You see this and you want to experience all content in this way,” Barney Pell, co-founder and CTO of Powerset, told me. “And, as an introduction, it will drive huge investment in semantic and [...]
14 Jun 2010
The Journal puts this down to a rather 1.0 launch of the brand. These days, it says, Hulu’s sweet viewing spot is inhabited by 25- to 34-year-olds. YouTube is still far more popular, percentage-wise, among the pimpled crowd of teenies and post-teenies.
And it seems that Hulu, the brand Baldwin so brilliantly sold during the Super [...]
14 Jun 2010
RNC eCampaign director Cyrus Krohn, Huffington Post Editor in Chief Arianna Huffington, and Democratic strategist Mark Penn onstage Tuesday at Microsoft’s advertising conference.
The ad, which was based solely on stock images, was cheap to produce but viewed millions of times, mostly online and at no cost to the campaign.
Next up, Krohn said, a cell phone [...]
14 Jun 2010
Tomorrow: an antivirus-software buyer’s guide.
Enter the path to the folder you want to access from the Send To menu.
Note that just dragging a shortcut from the Start menu or elsewhere into this window and dropping it there may not work. You have to enter the exact path, particularly if you want to add a shortcut [...]