Stories on the tech industry, content marketing and online sales enablement
RCR Wireless broke a story last week about AT&T buying millions of femtocells from British company ip.access LTD. According to research and banking firm ThinkPanmure, AT&T plans to offer the devices for as little as $100. http://www.rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080424/FREE/895619934/1014/rss01 Why is this important? Because femtocells can solve two critical wireless problems — poor indoor cell coverage for…
(graphic credit New York Times) Interesting article in the Times today about the battle between Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple for dominance of the smartphone market. Smartphones are becoming so capable these days I call them $79 personal computers. As the article notes, until the introduction of the iPhone the market was focused on…
Friday morning I attended an interesting event put on by the Association for Corporate Growth, National Chapter. ACG National is a who’s who of the DC business community and puts on quality events. I’ve been a member for two years and volunteer on their marketing committee: http://www.acgcapital.org/ On Friday Stan Soloway was addressing trends in…
European researchers this week issued a report that portrayed the U.S. Internet infrastructure in a positive light. The study was commissioned by the World Economic Forum, and conducted by Insead, a business school near Paris. It ranked the United States fourth, behind just Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. This struck me as strange. Turns out the…
How consumers are tracked online has been an issue for years. Until recently the main vehicle for this tracking has been the cookie, a small file placed on a visitor’s browser that identifies repeat visits and online activity. The latest chapter of this debate to reach critical media mass concerns Internet Service Providers (ISPs) contracting…
Google didn’t have a particularly good week, despite Neilsen Online reporting on Wednesday that Google continues to widen its lead in US search share over Yahoo and Microsoft. Google now handles almost 59% of all searches here, and almost 63% globally, although that number is down slightly: http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN1931199720080319 More important from a revenue standpoint, the growth…
Earlier this month Newsweek ran an interesting story about the resurgence of an old debate — if/how content should be edited on the Internet. The viewpoint that venerates the wisdom of crowds and the individual blogger/YouTube poster has seemed dominant lately, but is there now a movement back to “professional” content vetted by experts? I say…
Today Strategic client Tellabs released some interesting survey data. Tellabs used the subscription lists of leading trade publications to ask telecom professionals about broadband — what the definition of broadband should be, and the state of availability in the United States. Over 450 respondents shared some very strong opinions on this important issue. There are…
Last week a couple of representatives from NASDAQ came into the agency. Strategic Communications Group handles a number of public companies, and has taken clients through the IPO process. IR is not Strategic’s specialty, but we frequently get asked for counsel by our clients on these issues. So we wanted Jason and Steven to give us…
On Wednesday I attended a Media 2.0 event sponsored by PR Newswire. Michael Pranikoff, PRN’s Emerging Media director gave an animated and informative presentation to a full house at the JW Marriott on Pennsylvania Avenue. In addition to solid background information on the newest 2.0 trends, Michael put a lot of focus on free online tools that can…
Tom Burton at FierceMarkets brought an interesting new study to my attention via his FierceIPTV e-newsletter Tuesday. Tom’s an experienced tech journalist who recently relocated to the States from Australia, and I’ve gotten to know him over the past few months. He writes good commentary that goes easy on the jargon and gets into the business issues…
Ok, so a week after saying this job doesn’t often mix business and wine it happens again. Tuesday night we conducted a kick-off meeting with Scott and Jennie from our new client GovDelivery. With relatively little fanfare, this company has become the dominant provider of email and digital subscription management services delivered. These services are made available via a software as…
