HP Stock Tanks After It Hires No-Name CEO
I’ll admit, I never heard of the guy.
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Mark Sigal: ‘Apple’s Segmentation Strategy, and the Folly of Conventional Wisdom’
Terrific piece by Mark Sigal:
The following inconvenient facts must be an affront to the horizontal, commoditized, open, market share zealots. Apple has launched three major new product lines since 2001: the iPod (October, 2001); the iPhone (July, 2007); and the ipad (April, 2010).
The company’s stock is up 3,000 percent since the launch of iPod, 125 [...]
Beijing Apple Store Closed Due to Scalpers Buying Unlimited iPhone 4s
The Apple Store lifted its previous limit of two iPhones per customer; this drew an onslaught of scalpers buying 20-30 at a time. (The scalpers resell the iPhones on the gray market.) In the photo, that’s a pile of cash at the register.
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Léo Apotheker Named CEO and President of HP
HP:
The Board of Directors of HP today announced the election of Léo
Apotheker as Chief Executive Officer and President. Apotheker, who
previously served as CEO of SAP, will also join HP’s Board of
Directors.
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WEBSITE OF THE DAY – Atlas Obscura
A little bit odd
It is said that travel broadens the mind, but more than likely the more places you see and the further you go it’ll turn out that things are pretty much the same wherever you go. Far better then, to put the kettle on and watch the world from the comfort of your [...]
Authentic Jobs Charity: Water Campaign
Cameron Moll is trying to raise $20,000 to help bring clean water to people in Central African Republic. Clean water — just think for a few seconds about life without access to clean water.
Some great writing about this campaign from Cameron, and from Greg Storey. They could use your help.
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Claim Chowder on the Ship Date for BlackBerry Tablet
Speaking of the BlackBerry PlayBook, currently scheduled to ship in “early 2011”, here’s what Bloomberg’s Hugo Miller reported on July 30:
Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans
to introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple
Inc.’s ipad, according to two people familiar with the
company’s plans.
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Beware Obfuscated Language
Derek K. Miller, on Say Media’s acquisition of Six Apart:
And for a personal blogger, writer, and editor like me, the most
disturbing stuff is a sentence like this, from the merger press
release:
Through the creation of social hubs and influencer-driven custom
content programs linked to the innovative AdFrames offering, SAY
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Does the BlackBerry PlayBook Actually Exist?
Justice Gödel Conder asks:
There is not a single frame in the BlackBerry PlayBook commercial
that shows the actual device! The only thing being seen in the
commercial is CG special effects. Don’t believe me? Watch the ad
again. Sure, those special effects are amazingly fast and
responsive and cool but where [...]
HTC Spark: leaked photos show up
How many Window Phone 7 phones are HTC planning
With the Windows Phone 7 launch just days away, handsets are turning up all over the place.?The latest is the HTC Spark in Egypt.
It’s yet another HTC handset (how many is HTC going to launch?), and follows hot on the heels of other HTC Windows Phone 7 [...]
