Last Friday Sony-Ericsson announced its 2009 results: losses of $1.24 billion with a drop of sales of 40% from the previous year. This made me look at other phone manufacturers, like Nokia, Motorola or HTC. The latest data reported by the Finish company are for the quarter ending in September 09: 20% drop in sales form the same quarter […]
Why Enterprise Use of Social Media Needs More IT Involvement
The time has finally come. We can now publicly speak about the findings of the research study on the enterprise use of social media that has been in the works since the beginning of 2009. Cisco, the sponsor of the study, issued a global press release on January 13th and over the last few days the story has been […]
The Business of Shortening URLs
Google recently rolled out a service called goo.gl, which will compete with the current leading web address shortening system, bit.ly. The use of web address shortening systems has skyrocketed as the use of micro-blogging sites, such as Twitter, has also rapidly increased. Micro-blogging sites limit the number of characters that can be posted in a […]
Lost your wallet or a file? Dropbox!
“You have been there. You are about to buy lunch and you realize that your wallet is in your other pants.” It is true, I have been there. Many times. In fact, not only am I often searching for my wallet or my keys, I also have problems remembering where I have the most updated […]