Long gone are the days of getting a simple answer from Google without advertising.
As a search engine, it still does a very good job but, there are far too many people out there thinking that Google is the Only online advertising platform.
This may have begun skew the results in favor of sites that have no real content other than a bunch of google ads. Google wins either way, click on the paid ads based on the search or ads loaded on the landing page of the search result.
At some point, Google will loose it's lustre.
Black Gold, Texas Tea.
Second time in an hour I've seen this term as it relates to a technology company.
The first was an optical networking company that is getting into Oil and Gas.
This has been around for some time...putting tv on the phone is in response to carriers demand for new revenue streams not from consumers saying they need it or, want to pay a premium to watch something on a very small screen. The pitch up here is you can watch the Hockey game from where ever you are...I'd just walk into a sports bar...Big Screen and Cold beer if I really needed to watch a game. Why would I pay a premium for a diminished viewing experience?
For the majority of consumers, software is an overhead commodity that takes money out of their local economy and send it somewhere else.
OpenSource options allow for the majority of that money to remain in the local economy. Money that can be spend on local tech support and customization for those not so technically inclined.
Think of the school boards who pay M$ license fees...tax payers dollars from around the world shipped to Redmond.
If they want to argue economics, lets look at the total economic picture and paint a picture that shoots holes in their numbers.
If you're looking for low cost Phone2Phone calls from your mobile or other phone using VOIP. Look into a long distance calling card. You should be able to pic up a card that gives you a toll free number to call and deep discounts on the LD rate tons of them out there but local call +$0.05/min to europe from NA is a good deal compared to regular rates.
If it was their sensitive trade secrets that went missing... like the blend of secret herbs and spices or that syrup mixture.
If anyone has the recipies for that let me know
Podcast...Blogcast whatever...there is no distinction between the information provided and what it is delivered on. Hence no need to ad it to the dictionary. Just an example of great marketing at Apple. Personally I cringe every time I hear the term podcast because it is generally being made by a comentator on mainstream media referring to an archive of his show.
According to reports out, India is expected to grow it's current internet user base from 35 million to 100 million...So...a $1.7 billion investment will go a long way if the Gov't clamps down on piracy and Open Source.
If companies are so concerned about data theft from the desktop access points go back to client/server and give people nothing more than a keyboard and monitor.
Do a gig...write some tunes...sell music to commercials/movies etc...just don't think that you'd be any better off if you had a recording contract in the days before music sharing. Odds are you'd never sign a deal...and your manager would spend your money for you.
MPEG, MP3, and OpenGL doesn't come for free. It's very unique and requires much hard work to get the invention working.
Perhaps one of the distinctions that needs to be made is between a core technology and an application of that technology. When it comes to something like MPEG4, there are a number of firms responsible for the development of the core technology. It is based on standards and contributors to the development, pool their code and share in the licensing fees of the patent.
Where it falls down is when someone files a patent for an application that uses the technology. Take NTP and RIM for example. Neither firm has the patent (generally speaking) on email or wireless networks so how can anyone make a patent claim that they invented wireless email?
if a patent-holder comes after you for infringement it means they are worried about you, validating that you are on the right track.
Sure, but what are you going to do when this happens? Move on to "Plan B"...modify the process then file your patent. Unless your competitor has patented the concept of selling to your customers, you're still in business.
Protecting Intillectual Property Rights merely accellerates the drive to lower prices and a lower standard of living in the developed world. Developed Nations who view strong IP as the basis for their new economic engines, fail to realize that something needs to be sold, not just created. Protection of IP fails to take into account the Grey Market and "Innovation" that occurs in countries where actual production takes place. Product produced off shore on behalf of firms who own IP rights, often find their products reverse engineered or competing in the marketplace against grey market goods manufactured in the same plants that they contract to. In the end, the Patent/Trademark owner loses, as do the workers who lost their jobs to offshore producers.
Governments around the world have built on the M$ Word platform without an serious look at this defacto standard impacts the competitive environment and the choices of consumers.
While there are formats available, the percieved lack of technical support and business model behind Open Office has slowed the adoption of alternatives. Support by IBM is crucial for the wide spread success of the Open Document movement and will go a long way to increasing market share.
If your looking to for even greater fuel efficiency, try combining bio-diesel with Hydrogen Fuel Injection Hydrogen is produced on board the vehicle and will improve performance and efficiency. Problem is what to either of the do to the manufactures warranty?
With Freedom comes responsibilities. It is about time parents took some responsibility for what goes on in their home and not defer their parental responsibilities to the State. The sad fact is, too many parents don't take any responsibility for what their kids watch, read or play.
You are really ignorant of what's possible on the internet these days. I pay $30/month for DSL service that gives me 3 Mbps down and 768kbps up. You can do REALLY good videoconferencing on a link like this. I happen to be a programmer who writes videoconferencing software.
There is a big difference between what is technically feasible and commercially viable.If you recieve a guaranteed bandwidth as stated for $30 you're quite fortunate. Should more people move towards video conferencing, something will have to give, price or performance.
Having burnt through several million$ at companies who developing desktop video solutions,and exstensive market research in the corporate market, person to person desktop video calls in the business market deliver no added value. There are segments of the business market where video ads value but not necessarily in the p2p context.As far as the consumer market goes, video in MSN, Yahoo and Google have set the price point in the consumer market. The folks making money off of video are the broadband ISP's.
Calling late inventor a "bastard" ? Who the fuck are you ?
How about the judge and the jury on this case ?
Are they stupid evil bastards too ?
In a word YES!
NTP never lost any market share to RIM because; THEY MAKE NOTHING! If NTP had an infrastructure that supported customers with email push and lost market share to RIM then they would have been Torted.
As far as judge and jury; jury settlements in the US should be amble cause to avoid invetment in the US.
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Long gone are the days of getting a simple answer from Google without advertising. As a search engine, it still does a very good job but, there are far too many people out there thinking that Google is the Only online advertising platform. This may have begun skew the results in favor of sites that have no real content other than a bunch of google ads. Google wins either way, click on the paid ads based on the search or ads loaded on the landing page of the search result. At some point, Google will loose it's lustre.
Black Gold, Texas Tea. Second time in an hour I've seen this term as it relates to a technology company. The first was an optical networking company that is getting into Oil and Gas.
This has been around for some time...putting tv on the phone is in response to carriers demand for new revenue streams not from consumers saying they need it or, want to pay a premium to watch something on a very small screen. The pitch up here is you can watch the Hockey game from where ever you are...I'd just walk into a sports bar...Big Screen and Cold beer if I really needed to watch a game. Why would I pay a premium for a diminished viewing experience?
Ebay is more good than bad, but how can these people sell garbage?
One man's Garbage is Anothers Gold.
Toss in one of those Cameera Balls and still get the shots.
This list of great ideas is a real stretch...must be a slow news day
For the majority of consumers, software is an overhead commodity that takes money out of their local economy and send it somewhere else.
OpenSource options allow for the majority of that money to remain in the local economy. Money that can be spend on local tech support and customization for those not so technically inclined.
Think of the school boards who pay M$ license fees...tax payers dollars from around the world shipped to Redmond.
If they want to argue economics, lets look at the total economic picture and paint a picture that shoots holes in their numbers.
If you're looking for low cost Phone2Phone calls from your mobile or other phone using VOIP. Look into a long distance calling card. You should be able to pic up a card that gives you a toll free number to call and deep discounts on the LD rate tons of them out there but local call +$0.05/min to europe from NA is a good deal compared to regular rates.
If it was their sensitive trade secrets that went missing... like the blend of secret herbs and spices or that syrup mixture. If anyone has the recipies for that let me know
Podcast...Blogcast whatever...there is no distinction between the information provided and what it is delivered on. Hence no need to ad it to the dictionary. Just an example of great marketing at Apple. Personally I cringe every time I hear the term podcast because it is generally being made by a comentator on mainstream media referring to an archive of his show.
Xerox...Now there is a Product word!
According to reports out, India is expected to grow it's current internet user base from 35 million to 100 million...So...a $1.7 billion investment will go a long way if the Gov't clamps down on piracy and Open Source.
If companies are so concerned about data theft from the desktop access points go back to client/server and give people nothing more than a keyboard and monitor.
In the future, there will only be one 'channel': Apple.
Thats until the batteries run dead.
Do a gig...write some tunes...sell music to commercials/movies etc...just don't think that you'd be any better off if you had a recording contract in the days before music sharing. Odds are you'd never sign a deal...and your manager would spend your money for you.
Initial reports out of other media as reported here yesterday cited the problem being with IE.
MPEG, MP3, and OpenGL doesn't come for free. It's very unique and requires much hard work to get the invention working.
Perhaps one of the distinctions that needs to be made is between a core technology and an application of that technology. When it comes to something like MPEG4, there are a number of firms responsible for the development of the core technology. It is based on standards and contributors to the development, pool their code and share in the licensing fees of the patent. Where it falls down is when someone files a patent for an application that uses the technology. Take NTP and RIM for example. Neither firm has the patent (generally speaking) on email or wireless networks so how can anyone make a patent claim that they invented wireless email?
if a patent-holder comes after you for infringement it means they are worried about you, validating that you are on the right track. Sure, but what are you going to do when this happens?
Move on to "Plan B"...modify the process then file your patent. Unless your competitor has patented the concept of selling to your customers, you're still in business.
Protecting Intillectual Property Rights merely accellerates the drive to lower prices and a lower standard of living in the developed world. Developed Nations who view strong IP as the basis for their new economic engines, fail to realize that something needs to be sold, not just created. Protection of IP fails to take into account the Grey Market and "Innovation" that occurs in countries where actual production takes place. Product produced off shore on behalf of firms who own IP rights, often find their products reverse engineered or competing in the marketplace against grey market goods manufactured in the same plants that they contract to. In the end, the Patent/Trademark owner loses, as do the workers who lost their jobs to offshore producers.
Governments around the world have built on the M$ Word platform without an serious look at this defacto standard impacts the competitive environment and the choices of consumers. While there are formats available, the percieved lack of technical support and business model behind Open Office has slowed the adoption of alternatives. Support by IBM is crucial for the wide spread success of the Open Document movement and will go a long way to increasing market share.
If your looking to for even greater fuel efficiency, try combining bio-diesel with Hydrogen Fuel Injection Hydrogen is produced on board the vehicle and will improve performance and efficiency. Problem is what to either of the do to the manufactures warranty?
With Freedom comes responsibilities. It is about time parents took some responsibility for what goes on in their home and not defer their parental responsibilities to the State. The sad fact is, too many parents don't take any responsibility for what their kids watch, read or play.
You are really ignorant of what's possible on the internet these days. I pay $30/month for DSL service that gives me 3 Mbps down and 768kbps up. You can do REALLY good videoconferencing on a link like this. I happen to be a programmer who writes videoconferencing software.
There is a big difference between what is technically feasible and commercially viable.If you recieve a guaranteed bandwidth as stated for $30 you're quite fortunate. Should more people move towards video conferencing, something will have to give, price or performance.
Having burnt through several million$ at companies who developing desktop video solutions,and exstensive market research in the corporate market, person to person desktop video calls in the business market deliver no added value.
There are segments of the business market where video ads value but not necessarily in the p2p context.As far as the consumer market goes, video in MSN, Yahoo and Google have set the price point in the consumer market. The folks making money off of video are the broadband ISP's.
Calling late inventor a "bastard" ? Who the fuck are you ? How about the judge and the jury on this case ? Are they stupid evil bastards too ?
In a word YES!
NTP never lost any market share to RIM because; THEY MAKE NOTHING!
If NTP had an infrastructure that supported customers with email push and lost market share to RIM then they would have been Torted.
As far as judge and jury; jury settlements in the US should be amble cause to avoid invetment in the US.
In one meeting @1998 I heard an Old Guy say that the Internet is Just a Fad