Category: Business

  • Dell and the wow factor

    Among the many announcements out of the Consumer Electronics Show this week is Dell’s new XPS 13 Ultrabook. Dell joins other manufacturers in the embryonic ultrabook segment late to the party, some say. Even if true, does it matter if…

  • WHB: A new host for a new year

    In November 2011 I made a decision that, in early 2012, I’d move this blog and some other web properties to a new hosting service. From today, that service is WebHostingBuzz and I’d like to introduce you to them. Founded…

  • Ebooks: the next online battleground

    Isn’t this just like the music industry was a decade ago?: New medium captures imaginations of content creators and consumers. For publishers, literally zero distribution costs. Publishers succumb to temptation to charge an arm and a leg for the product,…

  • Three things to make QR codes worthwhile

    No surprises in this AdAge story about widespread use of QR codes that haven’t captured consumer imagination when it includes this statement: “Experts cite three reasons that QR codes haven’t caught on. First, people are confused about how to scan…

  • Engaging outside the inbox

    Doing some email housekeeping earlier this morning, I got thinking about the futility of much of one’s day-to-day email. Even though I’ve been using a nifty program called NEO Pro for the better part of the past decade that sits…