Archive for 'Apple'
Is Live Search Dead on Arrival?
You know a company is having dark thoughts about its own mortality when it starts sticking the word “Live” in front of all its new products. Such has to be the case with Microsoft which released its Live Search from beta today and launched Live.com in 47 markets worldwide. The company also launched Live Local Search in the U.K. and […]
Posted: September 11th, 2006 under Google, Companies, Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Search, Web Services, Microsoft, Apple.
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What’s Apple Up To Now?
Speculation about Apple’s highly-hyped “It’s Showtime” marketing event tomorrow is running about as feverish as a third-grade classroom during a chicken pox epidemic. Everyone agrees that a download distribution deal with Disney will be announced and probably a larger capacity video iPod, but after a rather lackluster performance at the last Apple hoopla a couple of months ago and the lingering […]
Posted: September 11th, 2006 under Jerks, Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Marketing, Apple, Convergence.
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Amazon Makes Preemptive Strike on Apple
Amazon.com made a preemptive strike on Apple today by unveiling Amazon Unbox, a new service for selling downloadable movies and TV shows online. Apple has been expected to announce plans to sell downloadable films on iTunes from Disney (whose biggest shareholder is a certain Steve Jobs) at its highly-hyped “It’s Showtime” event next week.
Amazon Unbox features thousands of […]
Posted: September 8th, 2006 under Companies, Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Amazon, Apple.
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When Google Met Apple
The New York Times has a page one story by John Markoff this morning about Google CEO and chief babysitter Eric Schmidt joining the board of Apple and what this might portend in terms of building an alternative to the Evil Empire in Redmond.
Schmidt, who will always be remembered (by me, at least) as the guy […]
Posted: August 31st, 2006 under Google, Companies, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Enterprise Web 2.0, Collective Intelligence, Apple.
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