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Digital Music is Dead, Long Live Digital Music: The Case for Spotify
Back in the 1990s, there was Napster. I mean, the original Napster not the shadow of a brand that is part of the Best Buy electronics offering. Napster effectively eliminated optical media by making people realize that the digital format was the only long-term, effective, space-saving way of having music that was portable. Sure there…
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Do Not Lock In To One Device Lest You Kill Your Company
It’s funny. Comical even. A few weeks ago, I wrote that The iPhone is to Smartphones as IE6 was to Browsers. Most of the readers of that article agreed with me but almost all had a “but, but, but…” argument. This is because the iPhone is one sexy beast to users, even though AT&T can’t…
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The Best Business Smartphone Available (Today)
Chances are, if you are reading this blog, then you have some affinity to technology and that you’re in the business of technology (whether directly, or using technology to do your job – and I don’t mean having a computer on your desk at work). This is a pretty tech-savvy crowd around these parts so…
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The iPhone still is not a Business Phone
Since the launch of the original iPhone almost two years ago, it has been the position of this journalist, that the iPhone is not equipped, nor designed to be a business class phone. Although Apple has done a lot to address the concerns raised by many around the time of the original launch, such as…
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Be Nimble, Be Quick, Grow
Last night I spent the evening rubbing shoulders with some of the best and brightest traditional (and some online) marketers in the Capital Wasteland Region at a holiday party (There are many of them this time of year, are there not?). As I stood there talking with a frequent reader of this blog, who also…
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Verizon Wireless Bombs on the Blackberry Storm Launch, And I Need to Talk to Them
Quick post here to make a request for contact inside Verizon Wireless. The reasons are simple. Yesterday, they along with Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) bombed the much-hyped Blackberry Storm launch. Speculations by Boy Genius Report seem legitimate – that Verizon implemented a downgrade on the phone operating system just before rollout causing a…
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Blackberry Provides a Mobile Device Too!
Since the iPhone came out a year and a half ago, mobile app development has gone into an iPhone-only mode of development. Mostly. The web interface has made it much more conducive to providing a real rich environment for web applications and now that the iPhone 3G has arrived, apps are being produced left and…
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SXSW Interview: Christina Warren from DownloadSqad.com
Christina Warren from Download Squad, TUAW and ChristinaWarren.com talks ultimate geek girl stuff. Hacking iphones, Blackberrys and SXSW.