A new blog about PowerPoint AOL offers new VOIP service b5 is waking up Black day for IBM traditionalists Dell Unveils Music Player Economist falls for Skype-hype: wrongly predicts end to mobile voice calls Google Prepares to Launch WiFi Service Identity Theft inFlightHQ Launches Internet industry unease at EU rules revision Novell PR Team Opens […]
Category: Business
GM’s Bob Lutz: The disruptive communicator
He was the first General Motors executive blogger when the GM Fastlane Blog launched last January. Now he’s the first GM executive podcaster on FastLane Radio, GM’s podcast series launched in February. GM vice chairman Bob Lutz stars in a Q&A discussion with Bill O’Neill, GM’s executive director of communications. During much of the 20-minute […]
The prize for Skype
Writing in the Financial Times last week, Stuart Henshall has an interesting analysis of Skype’s call forwarding functionality and what that could mean for eBay and Skype users following eBay’s acquisition of Skype a few weeks ago: […] With call transfer, by contrast, the call can be answered and redirected to either another Skype account […]
End of the road for Land Rover customer
The happy ending to the Land Rover Discovery saga that Adrian Melrose had been hoping for just hasn’t happened. The latest news from Land Rover’s most patient, loyal and suffering customer is that he has finally reached the end of the road: […] So I throw up my hands in the air and tell Land […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 27-Sept-05
24-megabit broadband launched at £24 a month Are You on Top of Your Enterprise IM Blogging @ McDonald’s Blogs that link to Global PR Blog Week 2.0 Book: Blog! How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business and Culture — by David Kline & Dan Burstein Feed Etiquette IABC Financial Communications Conference – Notes […]
Big choices in the UK for internet phone services
If Skype paved the way for free and low-cost telephone calls via the internet for early adopters, enthusiasts and others who ‘saw the light,’ then Freetalk looks set to kick-start a mass market in the UK with the launch last week of a new internet phone service that lets you use the phones you already […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 04-Oct-05
Broadband Adoption in the United States: Growing but Slowing Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 2 Employee No. 1 Is Scouting China for Google First Monday — Podcasting: A new technology in search of viable business models Internet Sales Tax on the Horizon Microsoft confirms next XP service pack Microsoft is Podcasting Netscape Lands Browser […]
IBM’s credible message: Blogging means business
Two senior IBM executives are featured in an informative and engaging series of audiovisual presentations that present the case for blogs as strategic business tools. Presented by Harriet Pearson, IBM’s Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President for Corporate Affairs, and Willy Chiu, Vice President of IBM’s High Performance On Demand Solutions Group, some very interesting […]
Why Europe fails to leverage innovation
A guy has a great idea for a product or service that companies would very likely buy, certainly enough that the idea has money-making potential. He’s trying to get some financial backers. So he’s sitting in his local Starbucks on the wifi sending some emails and his business plan. Someone asks if the next seat […]
Yahoo launches podcast directory
Yahoo has launched a podcasting site, a place that’s not only a directory of podcasts but also a great resource of rich information on podcasting generally, and a one-stop-shop for your podcasts and music purchasing. Yahoo Podcasts includes detailed information that explains what podcasts are and an excellent how-to guide on creating your own podcast, […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 11-Oct-05
Blogging slips down the priority list How to speak at a tech conference I Want the Blooker Prize IBM and the Future of Our Past Lockergnome Releases Gada.Be Metasearch Service Meeting Steve Ballmer in Munich… Phil Gomes – A Rough Early PR Blog Timeline PR Week Debuts Column by Dan Gillmor Selling the BlogoSphere Part […]
Lessons from Interpublic’s global financial chaos
The Financial Times reports the sobering story of marketing and ad agency group Interpublic who, after over 400 acquisitions and global expansion, found itself having to restate its accounts for the past ten years and be the subject of an SEC investigation into its accounting practices: […] The company discovered “instances of deliberate falsification of […]
Micropublishing: The next wave for advertisers
In its 24 October edition, Business Week has an analysis of the recent sale of Weblogs Inc to AOL from the point of view of the potential for advertising in blogs. Written by Stephen Baker, one of the bloggers on BW’s Blogspotting, the article focuses on what it calls the "promising new micromedia model" where […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 19-Oct-05
Blog Spammers Take Aim at Google Bloglines Losing Early Adopters to Rojo, Newsgator, and Google? (IACI, GOOG) Blogs are too easy to create says Wall Street Journal: Blog spam is the result Blogs of a Different Color E Ink and LG.Philips LCD build 10.1-inch flexible display Flat Yahoo Profit Tops Expectations FTC Asked to Address […]
The secret of Apple’s success
Apple may be just a minor player in the computer and consumer electronics industries in terms of revenue ($14 billion in fiscal 2005) and market share (less than 5% worldwide) but, Fortune magazine says, it is now undeniably setting the pace for both of those industries in terms of hardware, software, and industrial design. Fortune’s […]
Naked Conversations is a cracking read
Earlier in the week, I received a copy of the galley proofs of Naked Conversations, the business blogging book by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble, due to hit the bookstore shelves next January. I’d actually imaged ‘galley proofs’ to be a set of individual pages or printouts complete with a guide on the symbols and […]
Some online content is worth paying for
Some months ago, I let my annual subscription to the Wall Street Journal Online lapse. I’ve been a subscriber for some years, but decided not to renew the subscription. Cost was part of the reason. The WSJ Online is just less than $100 for a year. Not a great amount really. But I also subscribe […]
One stop for earnings call transcripts
One of the blogs I find of great informational value is The Internet Stock Blog (“news and analysis of Internet stocks, no buy or sell recommendations,” it says in its masthead). Recently, the blog started including a most useful new service – full transcripts of some of the most popular companies’ earnings conference calls. What’s […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 25-Oct-05
An Internet Fed Mostly by Amateurs is Fascinating Budget Launches Blog-Based Up Your Budget 16-City Treasure Hunt does this mean the blog is now officially mainstream media? Have You Read Your EULA Today? PR Owns the Blogosphere, For Better or Worse Should bank employees see blogs? The New Visionaries: Rebooting The Web Three Web 2.0 […]
TypePad’s growing pains
TypePad seems to creaking under the strain of its own success. For some weeks now, I’ve been observing (and experiencing) constant server timeout problems when posting to this blog. And I’m not the only TypePad user who’s in this position. In July, I posted with some frustration on the constant difficulties I encountered at that […]