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Category Archives: Business
Music for a Pound, or a Pound of Flesh?
Music not shared is music not heard, and a band not shared basks only in obscurity. Gene Simmons regrets not having been more vigilant in his marshaling of the RIAA cavalry back in 2007. A fundamental question is how to monetize an industrialized art form without creating an artificial scarcity that undermines the cultural popularity on which that art form is dependent. Ars Technica has an article this week highlighting the competing views on how to monetize music in the absence of natural scarcity. Continue reading
RoB Magazine declares victory on the Smartphone Plains of Abraham
RoB Magazine has declared Apple the victor over Research in Motion in a presumed battle between Cupertino and Waterloo for the smartphone Plains of Abraham. … I understand that for an investor, the likely more profitable performer in the short term is an important determination; but to pronounce the industry a zero-sum game is foolish. That said, the author raises an important point that if followed in combination with RIM’s existing advantages could shoot it back up to leading Apple around a marketplace of its own design. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Communications, Information Technology
Tagged Apple, blackberry, Business, Communications, Information Technology, iPhone, Research in Motion, Torch
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Research in Motion’s Opportunity to Promulgate Freedom
Several countries, none of which is a finalist in the Freedom to the People sweepstakes, are considering blackballing the BlackBerry for being too secure… The better route for BlackBerry is to work with these governments to reshape their privacy policies in favour of citizen rights. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Civil Liberties, Communications
Tagged blackberry, Business, Civil Liberties, Communications, encryption, Information Technology, Privacy
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Technology (law) is everywhere!
At the firm where I’m working, I deal a lot with wills & estates, family law, and small business. “But wait!” you say. “Where’s the intellectual property and information technology?”
And I answer, “Everywhere.” Continue reading
How to save a drowning business
In a state of economic decline – the cold water – companies will shed their appendages to keep whatever oxygen remains for the vital organs. Like the human body, this results in drowning, as without those extremities, the company can no longer manoeuver in the water. Unlike the human body, this relfex is not hard to reprogram. By trimming the oxygen needs of the vital organs, the extremities can be kept functioning until the water warms. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Info Dynamics Intelligence
Tagged Business, corporate vision, equity, ethics, Info Dynamics Intelligence
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Information is the Good, the Currency, and the Era
I’m reading “Business @ the Speed of Thought,” by Bill Gates. (Chapters-Indigo Link Here) He wrote it ten years ago, which allows me the critical distance I prefer when reading a book that prognosticates. Say what you will about MS … Continue reading
Opening the Scope of Employee Contribution
Just because an employee has a job with certain assigned tasks for which he is responsible, it is nowhere mandated to limit the scope of that employee’s contribution to those tasks. Continue reading
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