January 24, 2012 · 11:13 am
Some interesting new research this morning that seems to validate the direction Amazon is taking with the Kindle Fire. When the tablet first came out, a number of the tech blogs did the obvious comparison to the iPad and found the Fire to be inferior technology. The research on tablet usage from Zmags seems to show that it was an apples (no pun intended) to oranges comparison. You should know that Pew Research says the share of U.S. adults who own a tablet nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December (2011) and early January. They also found that E-reader penetration experienced the same growth during the same time period, so this is an important installed base and it’s only going to get bigger.
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January 3, 2012 · 9:51 am
Let’s start the year with a quick report on a survey released over the holidays wich you might have missed (the study, not the holidays – hope you had great ones!). It comes from InSites Consulting via eMarketer and the report begins with the understatement of the year (which at this point is pretty easy to be). The topic is social media, something that as we enter 2012 is not a “what” but a “how” issue for most businesses. But let’s start at the beginning. Continue reading →
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September 11, 2011 · 8:42 pm
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Today, this isn’t about business. If you want to skip it and come back in a couple of days, I understand. See you Tuesday.
I’m publishing this on 9/11, 10 years after a horrible day changed the world forever. I’ve spent a good part of the day thinking about the subsequent decade and how it was so very different from the 4 others in which I’ve lived that preceded it and I want to use today to share some of those thoughts. I also know we don’t do politics here – I think today we will, although hopefully in a non-partisan way. So here are a few things I remember most about 9/11/01. Continue reading →
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