December 16, 2012 – 11:23 pm
Tweet Mobile audiences are large and growing. Great. But their monetization is mostly a disaster. The situation will be slow to improve, but the potential is still there — if the right conditions are met. This year, a major European newspaper expects to make around €16m in digital advertising revenue. The business is [...]
December 16, 2012 – 11:18 pm
Tweet Meg Whitman’s efforts to turn HP around follow a proven script. But, in her efforts to frame future results against a background of past misdeeds, she might have gone one excuse too far and engaged in a potentially embarrassing fight against Mike Lynch, Autonomy’s founder. Turnaround Artist Manual – Chapter 1: Walk in with [...]
December 9, 2012 – 10:13 pm
Tweet If we factor Google geospatial applications + its unique data processing infrastructure + Android tracking, etc., we’re seeing the potential for absolute power over the economy. Large utility companies worry about Google. Why? Unlike those who mock Google for being a “one-trick pony”, with 99% of its revenue coming from Adwords, they connect the [...]
December 9, 2012 – 10:11 pm
Tweet We all want TV Done Right, free of the Soviet Era set-top box, UI and opaque contracts. We imagine Apple will put all the pieces together. But what’s desirable and “obvious” might not be so simple or soon… “When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I [...]
December 2, 2012 – 8:33 pm
Tweet The Nordic media giant wants to be the #1 worldwide of online classifieds by replicating its high-margin business one market after another, with great discipline. It all starts in 2005 with a Power Point presentation in Paris. At the time, Schibsted ASA, the Norwegian media group, is busy deploying its free newspapers in Switzerland, [...]
December 2, 2012 – 8:16 pm
Tweet At CES 2011, Ballmer told the world Windows would “fork”, that it would also run on lower power ARM chips for mobile devices. This was seen as a momentous breach in the long-standing Wintel duopoly. Two years later, the ARM tooth of the fork looks short and dull. This is what I wrote almost [...]
November 25, 2012 – 8:40 pm
Tweet Television and media industry are stuck in a wasteful rear-guard fight for the preservation of an analog era relic: the Release Windows system. Designed to avoid destructive competition among media, it ends up boosting piracy while frustrating honest viewers willing to pay. A couple of months ago, I purchased the first season of [...]
November 18, 2012 – 7:38 pm
Tweet In 2007, Microsoft introduces a new version of Windows called Vista, a grand name for what turns out to be an embarrassing dud. (Memories of my first and determining interaction with Vista can be found here.) Steven Sinofsky, once a Bill Gates technical assistant and, at the time, head of Microsoft Office development, is [...]
November 11, 2012 – 6:46 pm
Tweet Legacy media suffer from a deadly DNA mutation: they’ve lost their appetite for competition; they no longer have the will to fight the hordes of new, hungry mutants emerging from the digital world. For this week’s column, my initial idea was to write about Obama’s high tech campaign. As in 2008, his digital team [...]
November 11, 2012 – 6:46 pm
Tweet As I’ve written many times in the past, I’m part of the vast chorus that praises the Apple Store. And not just for the uncluttered product displays, the no-pressure sales people (who aren’t on commission), or the Genius Bar that provides expert help, but for the impressive architecture. Apple beautifies existing venues (Regent Street [...]
