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Category Archives: technology
Adventures in Contextual Advertising
From Justin Fox’s Curious Capitalist blog:
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Blogonomics: RSS Feeds
Have I mentioned that I take requests? Today Sandy leaves a comment for me, asking me to explain the economics of RSS feeds; I’m happy to oblige. The comment keys off my description of FT.com’s decision to truncate its RSS … Continue reading
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Cognitive Dissonance at Skype
Here’s what I don’t understand about eBay’s Skype write-down; I’d seriously love it if someone can explain it to me. As I understand it, eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion upfront, with the sellers potentially getting as much as $1.7 … Continue reading
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iBrick Update
It seems that it’s possible to downgrade a bricked iPhone and get it back into its pre-bricked state, complete with third-party apps and everything. But really. Is this whole cat-and-mouse game really necessary? The geeks, the early adopters, the people … Continue reading
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Apple Solves International Roaming Problem
Thank you, Apple! The iPhone is a great product, but one of its biggest weaknesses was the fact that it was incredibly easy to run up enormous cellphone bills if you use the data services abroad, either inadvertently or on … Continue reading
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Adventures in Aggregation
The entire econoblogosphere, in one place.
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Morgan Stanley’s Email Problem
Morgan Stanley has been fined $12.5 million for not providing emails. The Wall Street journal also notes that the company was also fined $15 million in 2005 for not providing emails. It doesn’t note that Morgan Stanley was ordered to … Continue reading
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Blogging as a Source of Profits
Scott Kirsner asks in the Boston Globe yesterday whether venture capitalists should blog. The general feeling is that the ones who do blog can’t imagine not blogging: it’s a great way of finding ideas, and ideas of course are the … Continue reading
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Fred Wilson Can’t get a Prepaid iPhone
If you buy an iPhone, you have to sign up for a two-year contract with AT&T. Your bill comes every month, and then you pay it. Because you’re paying the bill after you make the phone calls, this is a … Continue reading
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Stretching Credulity on Identity Theft Costs
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism submits: A solid article in ComputerWorld tells us that data theft is getting worse. In the ongoing struggle between the security mavens and the data thieves, the bad guys are gaining ground. They are getting … Continue reading
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More on AT&T/iPhone (and Now BlackBerry) Woes
Can someone, anyone, save AT&T from themselves?
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The $5,000 iPhone Bill
The bill is $5,086.66. For one month’s phone usage.
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Universal Uncripples Music, Cripples Music Retailing
I’m very happy that Universal is experimenting with uncrippling its music. But I do hope it doesn’t cripple online music retailing in doing so.
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Why WSJ.com Should Be Free
Saul Hansell wonders
whether Rupert Murdoch should really make WSJ.com free from
the first day he owns it.
Of course he should.
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Hoping Apple Allows iPhone Wifi Without Cellular Service
John Guidon, the CEO of Row 44, is a big Apple fan, he tells
me, and would love to be talking to Cupertino about the iPhone problem.
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Hope For Wi-Fi In Airplanes
I think that John Guidon, of Row
44, is the first CEO to leave
a comment under his own name at Market Movers.
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How the Equity-Research Sausage is Made
You can’t argue with Carl Bialik when he says,
apropos iPhone
sales, that "conducting a flawed survey can be worse than not conducting
a survey at all".
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Taking the Laptop on the Train or Plane
Kevin Maney wants
to know why there isn’t wifi on Amtrak.
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Apple’s iPhone Revenues
Apple seems to have transcended the stock market
to become some kind of pop-cultural phenomenon – not as a technology company,
but as a stock.
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Apple’s Opening Weekend
We know that Hollywood films live and die on their opening-weekend sales. But
iPhones?
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Vonage: Bad for Shareholders, Good for Consumers
Vonage’s business model might not be great for its shareholders, but it’s certainly good news for consumers.
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Using the iPhone Abroad
I’ve been doing a bit of homework, and I think I now know most of what there
is to know about using the iPhone abroad. In a word: Beware.
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iPhone Questions for Kevin Maney
Does Kevin Maney
take requests? I do hope so, because Walt Mossberg’s mailbox
column this morning uncharacteristically raises more questions than it answers.
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Mike Bloomberg, Social Networking Mogul
David
Carr, bringing bylines to DealBook, notes that Michael Bloomberg
is going to be hanging out with the MySpace and Facebook honchos (that’s Rupert
Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg, for those of you following
along at home) at Herb Allen’s Sun Valley power klatsch this
week. Carr tells us that Bloomberg "has proven to be one of the most durable
and consistently innovative media barons of our time". What he doesn’t
tell us is that Bloomberg was arguably the world’s first social-networking billionaire.
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Why Dell Won’t Get Delisted
In the staredown between Dell and Nasdaq, it’s the stock exchange, not the
computer company, which blinked
first.
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