Sears’ Craftsman Experience is a retail store with a dual identity. Built with both an in-person and an Internet audience in mind, the downtown Chicago venue offers hands-on project stations, live demos and clinics showcasing Craftsman tools. Online, the Craftsman Experience, which opens August 26, will stream special events live via the Web and serve… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
So this was inevitable. I think it is important to look at this as the canary in the cage that the miners watched to make sure they didn’t die. By that, I mean that the changes in the distribution model for digital media is killing Blockbuster and this could be the early warning for cable… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
A smokin’ hot processor, great looking screen, and a great camera- all for a couple hundred bucks! I know everyone is looking at the iPhone success- but watch out for Samsung, BTW, have you heard about BADA? Hmmm. Samsung’s latest Android-based device – the Galaxy S, which was released in the US on AT&T and… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
(Fierce Mobile) Google has acquired mobile gaming startup SocialDeck, the latest in a series of recent social media purchases as the digital services giant continues to assemble a platform to rival social networking kingpin Facebook. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2008 by COO Anish Acharya and CTO Jeson Patel, SocialDeck… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
What Google is attempting to accomplish with the web being an interactive platform for applications has implications on the mobile web as well. The real question, beyond whether this type of web use can work, is whether a company as big as Google can really get all of their internal teams working together on this?… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
(eMarketer)-With iPads now in the hands of millions, studies have begun to examine how the superhyped tablet is fitting into real life, and whether the opportunity for publishers and advertisers is as big as they hoped. Qualitative research from Ball State University examined how attitudes toward iPads changed after owning one for 24 hours. According to… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
(Fierce Mobile) Google is reportedly in talks with Hollywood’s premier movie studios to launch a worldwide pay-per-view streaming movie service in conjunction with its popular YouTube video site. Citing multiple sources with knowledge of the negotiations, The Financial Times reports Google is proposing an on-demand service directly integrated with its popular search engine–film and television-related queries… [Read more…]
August 27, 2010
(Fierce Mobile)-Open-source software development initiative Mozilla took the wraps off the alpha release of its Firefox mobile browser (codenamed Fennec) for Android and Nokia N900 smartphones. According to Mozilla, Fennec Alpha is the first mobile browser to offer add-ons, running the same technology that powers Firefox on the desktop–built-in Firefox Sync promises seamless access to… [Read more…]
August 27, 2010
Do dollars make a difference- you bet they do. Those people that have been counting Microsoft out of the mobile space are premature, to say the least. Tech crunch estimates over 500 million, I say that its probably well over a billion when all the hard and soft costs are settled out, in any case-… [Read more…]
August 26, 2010
Mobile Marketing Daily- Aside from texting within conferences and the use of applications as repeat-business tools, what has mobile to show for its role in business-to-business marketing? It is time to acknowledge the apparent lack of publicized success stories or frank discussion over the challenges of mobile B2B marketing. B2B marketing is defined as organizations… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
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