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Microsoft Milking its own App Developers

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:07:39 +0000

In a attempt to breathe life into their dead-born Phone 7 platform, Microsoft now “allows” their employees to work on apps in their own time. This way, the corporation hopes to build a market share for its mobile ecosystem, which is currently next-to-none. According to the New York Times, developers remain owner of the intellectual [...]

Microsoft Gives Nokia its Kiss of Death

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:15:42 +0000

What do you do when your product portfolio is no longer up to par? When your markets are slowly migrating in another direction than you are? When your customers no longer identify with your brand? When the very existence of your company is at stake? You follow; your markets, your customers, and their money. Not [...]

Why the BlackBerry Sucks

admin — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:15:52 +0000

Last week, I bought a BlackBerry Bold 9700. The main purpose was to have a small mail client with me when on the road. I decided to go with the BlackBerry since it has a qwerty keyboard and its mail functionality was supposed to be its greatest feature. Other applications were fun, maybe even useful, [...]

Google AdWords charges an extra week

admin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:14:30 +0000

Until last month, Google AdWords were always charged for one month, about one week in the new month. This month, I was charged not only for January’s clicks, but also for the first week of February. Obviously, these days Google is taking in whatever it can. Of course, the marketing misleaders of Google itself refer [...]