At its media event in early September, Apple threw down the gauntlet to Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. Dedicated gaming gadgets like the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable “seemed so cool,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of marketing, but “they dont stack up against the iPod touch.” Now an industry research firm has come out with numbers that back up Apple’s challenge.
Compete.com provides a rough guide to the traffic of various sites, it’s usually on the low side because of the way it collects its metrics but it does provide a good indication of trends.
We already have a ton of passwords to remember. Now Amazon.com wants us to remember something new–PayPhrase–which has already sparked an online pile on.
The Associated Press (via NY Times) has an article explaining how so many US companies regularly manage “to beat analysts’ estimates”:Corporate America has a habit of low-balling the earnings forecasts used by analysts to determine their estimates. That way, the bar is lower, and companies can easily jump over when the quarter’s results are announced — even if profits and revenues have fallen
This evening I’m on a panel moderated by Sam Whitmore and organized by Waggener Edstrom:
Google Wednesday said it began rolling out its new music search tool, allowing users to stream all or part of a songs from its results page, via partnerships with a number of online music providers.
Forty years ago today, October 29, 1969 marks the birth of the Internet.
The first command typed in was “lo” which crashed the entire Internet - all two machines. Internet Reaches 40th Birthday Milestone
The Droid just keeps the teasing going.
Edited excerpts from Press Release:Gurgaon-based facilities management and EPC firm A2Z Maintenance and Engineering Services has acquired a controlling stake in CNCS Facility Solutions, a Mumbai-based facilities management services company. One World Resources acted as the sole financial advisor to CNCS in this transaction.The investment will allow A2Z, whose investors include India Equity
