Google in partnership with Samsung announced the new chromebook priced at $249 and New York Times correctly identifies the shift in Google’s marketing strategy. A clear shift in Google’s strategy to target the average consumers, who are not really cloud friendly. A closer look at the specifications reveals that it is a phone of laptop [...]
Apple announced iPad min at special San Jose event and pried the basic 16GB version at $329. Is it too high? too low ? or just right? Larry Dignan at ZDNet Apple’s move to price the iPad mini at a starting price of $329 may preserve profit margins, but ultimately may cede some of the tablet [...]
Last Thursday Google announced its 2012 Q3 earnings and reported consolidated revenues of $14.10B for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, an increase of 45% compared to the third quarter of 2011. But that’s not the news everyone is talking about. Even if we were to ignore the early release of the earnings by human [...]
Microsoft started taking pre orders for Surface RT and already ran out of the initial stock. Microsoft priced Surface RT 32GB version at $499 in much different way than I imagined and suggested. Microsoft Surface RT supports Office Home & Student version, low-end version of the popular office suite, Windows Live mail, Skydrive and no outlook. [...]
Google gave unprecedented access to CBS Michelle Miller to its high security North Carolina data center. For more on Google data centers read here
At ITG digial author Mr. Erich wrote a great article investigating various possible root causes for Nokia’s fall and ruled out some of the most common misconceptions of bloggers. I wanted to take it a little further down that thought process and pay more close attention to current situation and what Nokia can do about [...]
With Microsoft confirming the shipping date for Surface RT, technology journalists started predicting the price of the device and the possible threat to iPad empire. For example, bloggers at computerworld have some thought-provoking discussions about the pricing strategies based on the manufacturing cost and on ways to neutralize the iPad. But in my opinion there [...]
Today at Wal-Mart 19th annual analyst meeting, Wal-Mart outlined its e-commerce strategy. And to prepare itself for the coming holiday sales war with online retail giant Amazon, Wal-Mart started testing “same day delivery” service in test markets across the country. The service costs $10 per order irrespective of the number of items. The billion dollar question [...]
IBM and AT&T duo just announced a cloud partnership to provide cloud services using AT&T MPLS enabled virtual private networks. The duo calls these services “network enabled” cloud offerings. As a part of the deal AT&T will be providing secure virtual private networks and IBM will be offering IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ over these secure networks. [...]
Tristan Louis wrote interesting article illustrating the value of Nokia to Apple. Though I agree and understand the value of patents to Apple, the author misses a couple of other aspects of the acquisition. As one of the commentator Mr. MauritzNordlund has already pointed out that the acquisition will suffer from the overhead of excessive labor restructuring. Not [...]
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