Mobile bankers, start your cell phones! Cingular Wireless (now rebranded as the new AT&T) announced this week that it has inked deals with Wachovia, Regions Financial, SunTrust …More...
The New York Times (NYT) has some advice for multitaskers: Don’t! Citing several recent studies, the NYT says multitasking is detrimental to work, studying, and just downright …More...
The U.K. has served as a bellwether for U.S. Web trends, so a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers indicating Web advertising revenue has now exceeded newspaper advertising revenue in …More...
While newspapers struggle and longtime magazines fold (see Life Magazine), the fake news genre continues to thrive. The Onion News Network (ONN), an online newscast with the …More...
Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario 2.0: The Post Advertising Age. This is a profound piece of writing by Bob Garfield at Advertising Age. One of the things I …More...
When we complete online forms, we’re frequently required to use a drop-down menu for selecting our state. Most organizations do not realize that this everyday feature is …More...
Time Inc. is discontinuing Life magazine. In its heyday—the late 1930s through the 1960s—Life magazine was a weekly and one of the most popular magazines in America. …More...
Oh, great. With this new technology, the next thing we’ll see is a Goodyear shark blimp swimming through the air above football games. In nearby Minnesota Lake …More...
Sneaking peeks at online highlights of NCAA Division I basketball tournaments or updating pool charts during the work day, instead of looking at your boss’s sales projections? …More...
Next time you’re having difficulty figuring out that new video game or the other latest technology, perhaps you should ask a toddler to show you how it …More...
There is an update (see CNN) on the pet food recall story posted on Sunblog this last weekend. It has been determined that the recalled product was …More...
CNET is using the experience and knowledge it has gained from its own site to officially launch BNET, a resource aimed directly at people in mid- …More...
How far should you go – geographically and legally – to protect your federally-trademarked identity? For the state of Wyoming, it means demanding that a small-town Minnesota …More...
Two months ago I posted a story on what I felt was AT&T’s ill-conceived plan to subsume their powerful Cingular brand back into the AT&T name (See …More...
It becomes clear to see why Apple is such an innovative, successful company when you read the comments made by Apple COO, Tim Cook, recently posted on …More...
Spam – do you eat it or delete it? That seems to be the “meat” of the legal trademark brouhaha pitting Hormel, makers of the celebrated meat …More...
This week marks the start of SD West 2007 in San Francisco. Put on by the Dr. Dobb’s Events Group, this 20th anniversary event looks to be …More...
What’s the biggest driver of our economy? Marketing? Manufacturing? The Energy Sector? Agriculture? Nope. According to a story at Internet News, the biggest contributor to our economy …More...
Hopefully, all you pet owners have heard about the pet food recall from Ontario-based Menu Foods. When this story first broke, I didn’t realize how many brands …More...
Every day you can see new products galore at Gizmodo and Engadget, but now and then something comes along that looks like it could be the next …More...
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an area where many mid- to large-size companies can literally be leaving millions on the table. SEO is often referred to as …More...
The ad revenue for March Madness is expected to exceed a half-billion dollars this year ranking it as the top post-season sporting venue against all other sports, …More...
This year St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Saturday and according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), that is going to result in some major spending (story …More...
Apple presents us all with the equivalent of a graduate level course in marketing according to Harvard Business School professor David Yoffie (Yahoo News story here). Start …More...
Via Mike Neiss at Tom Peters’ blog, comes this point to a Did You Know PowerPoint presentation done by Karl Fisch, a teacher at Arapahoe High School …More...
All companies make mistakes, but rarely do they have trillion dollar consequences. However, it appears that is the price tag Airbus will pay for siloed engineering teams …More...
For the modern-day CEO wishing to instill strategic transformations in his or her company, deeper knowledge of underlying technologies is critical. That’s the assessment from a major …More...
The number of podcasts available is growing at a phenomenal rate. Podcast.net now lists about 40,000 options for your selection. Another great directory is Yahoo Podcasts with …More...
As reported by AP and Business Week Online , Wal-Mart will today start selling car receivers for digital radio, also known as HD Radio (which is free, …More...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) plans to provide free Internet access to its entire 1800 courses by the end of the year (story here via Digg). …More...
And the question is: What are the world’s top three most valuable sporting events brands? Forbes has the top 10 listed here based on revenue per event …More...
A story in Media Daily (free subscription required) was headlined: “Shock Waves: Microsoft To Move Bulk Of $1 Billion In U.S. Ad Spending To Digital.” Mich Mathews, …More...
The well-documented struggles and ownership changes at major newspapers will ultimately benefit – and potentially save – the industry. That’s the case made by Jack Shafer in …More...
For anyone who is, or has been, involved in naming a company or product, this is a helpful resource (thx Guy Kawasaki for the point). Beware. If …More...
