Several large companies have banded together to launch something called the Blog Council to deal with issues in corporate blogging. Hmmm.
Before reading skeptical reactions from the likes of Robert Scoble, I had some skeptical reactions of my own. Corporate blogging in itself is a bit of an oxymoron given the ponderousness of most [...]
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Todd Spangler has a great piece up today on TiVo’s survival dilemma, which Om Malik goes on to validate over on GigaOM. Todd’s piece is a must-read.
One option TiVo may have had at one point was to shift to a software-only model. Given its die-hard fan following, it probably would have [...]
Since green electronics are all the rage, I had to post this quick note on the new Climate Counts Company Scorecard. Motorola scored at the upper end the spectrum in the electronics category – 60 out of a possible score of 100. To put that number in context, Apple scored a 2. [...]
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Nearly five years ago when I first started working with Motorola, the broadband business was a Goliath in the cable industry, but it certainly wasn’t known for being either nimble or aggressive. At the time it seemed almost like senior leadership was letting the division marinate a while to see which direction the market [...]
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It looks like Motorola, headed by Ed Zander and the full Board of Executives, has pulled out a win against Carl Icahn. The billionaire investor was bidding for a seat on Motorola’s Board with an agenda to make some serious changes within the company. You can read all about Motorola’s argument against the [...]
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Last month the Wall Street Journal reported that Time Warner senior executives are considering reducing the company’s cable TV holdings. That statement comes apparently despite significant growth in Time Warner’s cable business. In this morning’s earnings call, the company announced double-digit profit increases in both AOL and Time Warner Cable. That’s double-digit [...]
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As others have pointed out, Don Imus was not fired because CBS and NBC were so outraged by his racist remarks that they couldn’t stand to have him on the air anymore. Imus was fired because of money. Advertisers pulled out and the networks lost interest in supporting the controversial shock jock. [...]
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Vyyo’s been much in the news of late. As I listen to the company’s earnings webcast, its focus is very clearly on the cable market and the opportunities there to sell technology that extends bandwidth. I’m going to ignore the financials at the moment (mainly because I can’t process the news fast enough [...]
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It’s impossible not to get excited about the rapid innovation taking place in Web video – from Joost’s upcoming P2P service with “real” TV channels, to Sling Media’s SlingCatcher, to Apple TV. Not everything new will succeed, but even when it doesn’t, the innovation puts pressure on video industry Goliaths to deliver better products [...]
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In the time I’ve worked with Motorola I’ve become acutely aware of all the great technology that takes years to get to consumers or doesn’t make it to market at all. This is the cost of doing business. Projects get abandoned as priorities and resources shift. Sometimes technology execution takes longer than [...]
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