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CEOs defend moving jobs offshore at tech summit. WASHINGTON - Moving IT jobs outside of the U.S. is necessary if technology companies want to remain competitive in a world market, a group of software vendor chief executive officers (CEOs) said Thursday. [InfoWorld: Top News] 5:11:47 PM  comment
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The most famous names in rock and roll owe their long-term success to marketing skills as much as to musical talent, according to Roger Blackwell and Tina Stephan, co-authors of Brands That Rock: How to Win Fans and Influence Profits. The authors are struck by the fact that groups like KISS and The Rolling Stones and individual artists like Madonna and Elton John continue to have hit songs and sold-out concerts today, decades after they first became popular. How do they do it, and what, if anything, can we learn from them? Knowledge@Wharton critiques the book[base ']s performance. 4:56:51 PM comment
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The recording industry has a pricing problem. People do not want to pay $15-20 for a compact disc when they can download the same music for free over the Internet. The industry[base ']s solution appears as novel as the technology that is giving it such headaches: launch hundreds of lawsuits against otherwise law-abiding consumers who download music. As G. Richard Shell, a legal studies professor and author of a forthcoming book on competitive legal strategy, notes, this same tactic was tried 100 years ago against Henry Ford. It didn[base ']t work then, and it won[base ']t work today. 4:55:53 PM comment
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The clouds over Sun Microsystems are thickening as the company continues to struggle against competition from cheap, open systems offered by Dell, and from IBM and Hewlett-Packard in high-end business systems. While many tech companies have felt the pain of the drought in information technology spending, Sun [^] a manufacturer of servers and proprietary networking software based inSanta Clara,Cal.[^] seems to be suffering more than most. What should Sun do, and is CEO Scott McNealy the one to do it? 4:55:17 PM comment
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Globalization, which once swept the manufacturing field, is transforming the services sector. Decentralized production of information-intensive services for global markets -- coupled with the international integration of labor markets via the Internet -- mean that work is moving to countries where it can be done efficiently. As a global supply-chain of expertise emerges, stretching fromManhattantoMadrasvia places likeMauritiusandManila, these trends pose several questions. In an attempt to answer them, Wharton professor Ravi Aron assembled a panel of experts representing different perspectives on the BPO phenomenon. 4:53:39 PM comment
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It's getting more difficult to build strong brands, because of shrinking marketing budgets and an explosion in the number of brands as well as in ways of communicating them. To rise above the clutter, a company must go beyond intuition and turn to a more rigorous, fact-based analysis of the effectiveness of its brands. To deliver them, marketing must develop new skills and obtain help from other departments, including product development, operations, and customer service.
The take-away
Companies can build better brands for less money with a forward-looking customer segmentation and sophisticated analytic tools that help define and deliver brands more precisely. |
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The market for downloaded games has grown rapidly in recent years and a number of operators are already capitalising on the revenue to be made at the point of download. However this one off revenue could quickly become overshadowed if game users make ongoing use of the network during gameplay. One way to accomplish this is with multi-player games. 4:49:13 PM comment
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"Faster and smarter" is the mantra in the wireless world, but Robert Poor has a different vision: He dreams of networks that are slow and stupid. 4:48:08 PM comment
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The Walt Disney Co. piqued the interest of film buffs last week when it unveiled a set-top box that comes with 100 pre-installed movies, 10 of which get replaced automatically each week with newer flicks. The MovieBeam service, which costs $7 a month plus $2.50 to $4 for each movie watched, is designed to let movie enthusiasts avoid trips to the video store and late fees. ...
To power MovieBeam, Disney is using one-way data broadcasting, a content-delivery mechanism considered a bust in the 1980s and then again in the late 1990s as a "dot-bomb." |
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EE Times: Global broadband deployment growing as DSL spreads. Cable companies rather than incumbent telecommunications carriers have lead the way in introducing broadband access in the industrialized world, but the telecom industry is starting to catch up, a new government survey has found. [Tomalak's Realm] 1:36:13 PM comment
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Samsung tunes in Napster with new gizmo. Capitalizing on the re-launch of Napster on Thursday, the consumer electronics maker has announced a new digital audio player that can store up to 5,000 songs on its 20GB hard drive. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 1:35:49 PM comment
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Sprint sells out the Treo 600. We're hearing reports that Sprint has already sold out on the Treo 600. Amy Langfield says she tried to buy one over the phone, only to be told that there were no more in stock and to go to a store to buy one. Which is a problem since they're not in stores yet. Anyone else have trouble getting one? Read... [Gizmodo] 1:35:29 PM comment
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IDC: Smiles for the camera phone?. Sales of camera phones are expected to jump dramatically over the next several years, but mass-market success for the technology will ride heavily on customer satisfaction. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 1:35:01 PM comment
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ComponentOne boosts Microsoft apps on mobile devices [IDG InfoWorld] 1:34:24 PM comment
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PC World: What's Next in LCDs? Several of the latest innovations in display technology for portable electronics devices will be on display at the Ceatec Japan 2003 exhibition in Japan this week. The new and prototype displays offer a number of different advantages over existing displays and point to brighter, clearer, and more compact screens coming to gadgets in the future. [Tomalak's Realm] 1:28:24 PM comment
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GSM gaining ground in North America. The cell phone standard that dominates Europe is growing three times faster than Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access, challenging CDMA's hold on North America. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 1:27:35 PM comment
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Two new Scribbler Tablet PCs from Electrovaya. We almost missed Electrovaya's new versions of its Scribbler Tablet PC, the SC-2000 and the SC-2010. Electrovaya isn't exactly one of the better known Tablet PC manufacturers, but their models do have some of the best batteries around. Anyway, the SC-2000 and the SC-2010 both have 1.2GHz Centrino processors, built-in 802.11b, 12.1-inch displays, integrated biometric fingerprint sensors for extra security, and detachable keyboard docking stations. The only difference is that the 2010 has a 40GB hard drive and 512MB of RAM while the 2000 has just a 30GB hard drive and 256MB of RAM. Read [Thanks to Christopher Coulter for reminding us about this one!]... [Gizmodo] 1:26:46 PM comment
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Even the Best Ideas Don't Sell Themselves. So what if she had limited business experience, a shoestring budget and a low-technology product? In 2000, Carol Skonberg thought she had struck entrepreneurial gold with her wineglass jewelry. In her first year, she signed up 90 stores in Texas to carry the product and racked up $35,000 in sales, all on an initial investment of $4,000. By Eve Tahmincioglu. [New York Times: Business] 10:47:37 AM comment
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Apple to launch iTunes for Windows. The Mac maker is expected to unveil the long-awaited Windows version of the iTunes Music Store at an event next week. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 10:47:18 AM comment
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Second-generation Transmeta Efficeon chip due in 2004. Transmeta Corp. isn't launching its first-generation Efficeon processor until next week but the company has already begun talking about the second-generation version of the chip. [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:46:44 AM comment
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ARM expands Foundry Program for fabless chip companies. ARM Ltd. will add one of its most frequently licensed processor cores to its Foundry Program for fabless chip companies, so those companies can develop products using ARM cores without the upfront cost that other chip companies pay, ARM said Thursday at the Fabless Semiconductor Association Suppliers Expo in San Jose, California. [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:46:22 AM comment
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IBM unveils intrusion-detection service for wireless nets. The service can detect rogue access points, denial-of-service attacks, improperly configured access points and compromised WEP encryption keys. [Computerworld Security News] 10:37:36 AM comment
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