Talking of Microsoft and the future of Mobile Convergence platforms both retail Touch Points and Schematic have reported that one of the more interesting things to come out of the NRF convention this year was a retail digital signage proof-of-concept from Intel and Microsoft. Retail Touch Points reports that Microsoft & Intel are partnering to transform… [Read more…]
January 31, 2010
Today both BusinessInsider (see Microsoft’s Online Money Pit) and GigaOm (See Admit It, Microsoft: You Suck at the Web) have been busy pointing out it’s now costing Microsoft $2 billion a year to be online. “For 15 years, Microsoft has tried time and again to become a major player on the web… [and] despite having… [Read more…]
January 28, 2010
Back in December Business Week was speculating that the iPad would help Magazine and newspaper publishing to bounce back as consumers rediscover paid subscriptions. “Expect to see publishers launch visually stunning versions of their magazines with swooping typography, video insets, CNN iReporter-style news uploads, social media overlays—whatever it takes to make you think you’re seeing… [Read more…]
January 27, 2010
I first covered the topic of online Newspaper subscriptions back in October with What If: Subscriptions become the New York Times’ main revenue stream? I subsequently followed it up with posts like If Rupert Murdoch does build a Pay Wall will anyone want to play in his garden? Three months on and we now have some accurate… [Read more…]
January 23, 2010
Back in the early days of the web you would often hear marketing managers asking the experts questions like “we know we need to be on the web but don’t know what we should do”. Today the question is similar but it is rephrased around Social Networking and Twitter. e.g. “We know we need to… [Read more…]
January 20, 2010
I was wondering how long it would take for News Corp’s journalists to catch up with the Great Google Gamble. As I said last week this is a new experience for Google because they have never had any “real” customers before… just traffic. What you need to succeed in the Mobile space is great Customer Relationship Management.… [Read more…]
January 20, 2010
The rumours over the past 2 or 3 days of the New York Times introducing a pay wall provides me with the ideal excuse to revisit my earlier notes on the challenges facing the New York Times and why pay walls are not the answer to the wider problems the newspaper industry. Let’s begin with… [Read more…]
January 16, 2010
I’ve spent the past week or so trying to think how I can use this idea of the Long Tail != The Wisdom of Crowds to explain the last of the current crop of MobCon concepts. The idea of Memium. The simple idea that in the future advertisers and media outlets will be paying to gain access… [Read more…]
January 14, 2010
We’re only one week into the Google Phone retail experience but it is already looking like its going to be one of those Harvard Business School Case studies in years to come. Andy Rubin, senior director of mobile platforms at Google, may well think Android is “the next most important platform in the world” and… [Read more…]
January 14, 2010
I wrote in a recent post that the entrepreneurial paradox was you needed to sell the future to own the future. The question I am going to discuss today is who you should be trying to sell the future to? or put another way, are VC’s really an essential part of the innovation equation? In my experience innovation requires 3… [Read more…]
January 31, 2010
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