February 2012
RIM creates 4 cartoon characters to spread the "Be Bold" message | MobileSyrup.com →
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GoGo Girl, The Achiever: “Saving the day with a brilliant strategy”
Justin Steele, The Advocate: “Always ready to stick up for his friends”
Trudy Foreal, The Authentic: “Not afraid to call it as she sees it”
Max Stone, The Adventurer: “Able to jump out of a plane…”
Dear God.
“The Windows division posted a 6% decline from a year ago. That was offset by gains in its Entertainment and Devices division.”
—Google earnings miss; IBM, Microsoft, Intel beat Street – USATODAY.com
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Amazon Shares Drop as Revenues Fall Short - NYTimes.com →
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For years, the retailer has been telling Wall Street to ignore how little money it was making and focus instead on the fact that it was bringing in more and more customers and keeping them so happy they never went anywhere else for anything.
In Amazon’s fourth-quarter results, however, investors finally glimpsed off in the distance that growth beginning to flatten. Its revenue rose to $17.43 billion, up 35 percent. Most retailers would die happy with such a jump. But for the e-commerce leader, sales were nearly a billion dollars short of what analysts had been expecting.
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“Fast Company editor Bob Safian profiles “Generation Flux,” a new breed of unsentimental, risk-taking, self-reinventing creative professionals who are comfortable living - and thriving - in chaos.”
—Need-To-Know: Generation Flux, Start-Up of You, Technology Heartbreak :: The 99 Percent
“Localore, a new initiative produced by AIR, builds on the groundwork laid by MQ2 to drive the continuing transformation of public media. Our 10 Lead Producers, in collaboration with their local station radio and television incubators, will focus their ingenuity on blending digital and traditional broadcast tools and platforms to expand the reach of public media in local communities and establish new capacity for R&D at stations.”
—Localore | AIRmediaworks
January 2012
SXSW - Hyper Local Public TV Station Models: Content 3.0 - #SXHyperLocal →
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How are public television stations positioning themselves for the future? Are they producers, curators of existing content or simply another model all together? The legacy model of public TV is changing — quickly. Now, stations are masters of content strands, weaving together social media, geolocation, web, mobile, traditional TV and production into an amazing new product. Come see how new models are emerging and leading the next generation of public television.
If you are coming to SXSW this year, be sure to check out our session on the future of public media. It’s Friday, March 9 from 3:30PM - 4:30PM @ Sheraton Austin - Creekside I & II
-Shane
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“RIM, Apple and Android phones now equally share the workplace market. In a recent global survey of information workers — people who use a computer or another smart device for at least an hour a day — Forrester Research found that 27 percent of smartphone users said they had an Android phone; 26 percent, a BlackBerry; and 24 percent, an iPhone. “Android and Apple together are eating BlackBerry’s lunch,” said Frank Gillett, a Forrester analyst.”
—In Europe, Some Lovers of the BlackBerry Now Seek A New Flavor - NYTimes.com
Apple Becomes World's Biggest Maker of Computers, Thanks to iPad →
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Cue dozens of people screaming bloody murder: “THE IPAD IS NOT A PC!!!!!!!”
Cue millions of the rest of us laughing at those people.
Just as with the move from desktops to laptops, the transition to tablets (or “pads” as Canalys humorously refers to them) is underway.
“But, but, but… it doesn’t have a keyboard!” Yes it does.
“But, but, but… it doesn’t have a physical keyboard!” How’s that argument working out for RIM?
“But, but, but… it doesn’t run PC software!” Who gives a shit? Clearly not the people buying millions of the devices each quarter.
All you need to know about the “is the iPad a PC?” argument: are people buying them instead of traditional PCs? Sure looks like it.
Convinced me. I’ve purchased two iPads since I bought my last “computer.” -Shane
“The infuriating thing about this tragedy is that it was completely unnecessary. Half a century ago, any economist — or for that matter any undergraduate who had read Paul Samuelson’s textbook “Economics” — could have told you that austerity in the face of depression was a very bad idea. But policy makers, pundits and, I’m sorry to say, many economists decided, largely for political reasons, to forget what they used to know. And millions of workers are paying the price for their willful amnesia.”
—The Austerity Debacle - Paul Krugman - NYTimes.com
