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eMarketer Downgrades Online Ad Spending Forecast
Emarketer is predicting a smaller growth than what was originally thought. You may think that 17% is still good, but people have made investments on the previous estimates. People have bet their careers. Companies, especially start-ups, are going to have to fight even harder to survive.
There is 1 billion dollars that online firms were banking [...]
Starbucks coffee is too expensive, new survey says
Oh boy. 73% think Starbucks is overpriced. How did they ask the question? I’d like to see the questionnaire. They only asked about coffee prices as far as I can tell. Well I think the coffee is not overpriced (for NYC anyhow), but I think $5 is too much to pay free Internet.
I was a [...]
TG Daily – Surprise, surprise: U.S. broadband is slow. Really slow.
Oh, this will never do. Matching broadband the speeds seen in other countries would be great for business. New media and communications innovations are all hampered by our snail paced broadband
How slow?
Average DL speeds
US : 2.3 Mb/s
Japan : 63 Mb/s
South Korea : 49.5 Mb/s
Finland : 21.7 Mb/s
France : 17.6 Mb/s
Canada : 7.3 [...]
TV Sports – With 2,200 Hours of Live Video, NBC Tries to Cover It All Online – NYTimes.com
That’s a lot of content to sell ads for. I wonder how the ads will be handled? Notice that NBC is saving the prime ad spots for television, ye of little faith.
But even with the abundance of live streams, one truism remains: prime time on NBC still rules. Those watching online will not see [...]
Defriending, the better part of Facebook valour
This is an interesting post and I think it speaks to the limits of social networking. I have contacts of former school colleagues, family and friends like everyone else. I have people on my friends list that I haven’t seen in so long that I wouldn’t recognize them if we ran into them on the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PC World – Business Center: Ex-Googler, Husband Launch Cuil New Search Engine
Pretty neat engine with some cool bells and whistles. I searched popular terms “Ring Tones” and “Auto Insurance” and no ads came up, but I assume with some convenient white space on the right side, they are on the way. Company logos, and in some cases a preview of content, are displayed along with results, [...]
New York state passes video game labeling law | Technology | Reuters
Personally, I do not like violence in games, but I happen to believe in free speech. This law is unconstitutional and anti-business. Game companies are in no way trying to hide the content of their games. The games are very explicit about their content.
The worst part is the law is clearly unconstitutionally and will [...]
AT&T offers free Wi-Fi at Starbucks | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
Free internet with a catch. Starbucks still doesn’t get it. My guess is that it will take less then six months for Starbucks’ latest overly complicated Wi-Fi scheme to fail. Is anyone counting how plans for internet access have failed so far? It’s almost amusing to see how many bazaar and unwieldy plans Starbucks can [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Time Warner Launches Bandwidth-Capped Internet Plan – Yahoo! News
I can’t believe that companies are actually considering metering Internet users, again. This reminds me of AOL’s reign back in the 90s. A bad idea is still a bad idea ten years later.
Time Warner Cable will begin testing a new pricing plan that caps bandwidth usage. Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable’s executive vice president, said [...]
AMD Sets New Memory Standard With GDDR5
“Speaking of games, overall this will offer gamers the possibility to play at high resolutions with high image quality settings. In addition to that, applications will have faster load times, superior responsiveness and multitasking, AMD explained.”
AMD’s new chip will basically be really really fast. The question is, will consumers be quick enough to adopt [...]
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