Category: marketing

8 January 2008

Unified Communications Is A Pipe Dream

Filed under: connectivity, marketing, telecom, voip - 08 Jan 2008

Bog RollYou know, I hear this term Unified Communications all the time. It recently came up as I saw the press release of Jajah and CallWave partnering up to “make global communications …

27 December 2007

Heroes and Sprint: Product Placement Gone Wrong

Filed under: marketing, mobile network operators, telecom - 27 Dec 2007

SprintI was catching up on my viewing of Heroes this evening when I noticed a rather obvious product placement for Sprint. The product placement doesn’t bother me so much, it’s the …

21 November 2007

Clever Web Ads By Apple

Filed under: mac, marketing, windows - 21 Nov 2007

Clever web marketing by Apple:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRAUlK8_2VE[/video]

Based on this ad:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRflNfaBPY[/video]

Via TechCrunch

23 October 2007

An Evening with S60, Complete With PhoneBoy!

Filed under: marketing, nokia - 23 Oct 2007

Evening With S60While I don’t live anywhere near San Francisco anymore, I am in the Bay Area to see my boss in Mountain View. And, of course, to go to the Evening With …

27 April 2007

It’s All In The Name

Filed under: marketing, nokia - 27 Apr 2007

I was discussing mobile phones with my wife today, mostly because I got the quote back from the Nokia repair facility for my wife’s broken Nokia 6102: $115 flat rate to fix the phone. Considering I can buy a replacement …

24 April 2007

Frucall goes SMS

Filed under: marketing - 24 Apr 2007

Frucall, the service that allows you to call in, type in the barcode # into your mobile handset, and get more information about it including comparisons of online shops that might have it for less, is now making their …

23 April 2007

Comunicano Gets Some Good Press

Filed under: blogging, marketing - 23 Apr 2007

Andy Abramson’s PR firm Comunicano got some good press today in Advertising Age. I have participated in some of Andy’s Blogger Relations programs, so I understand how they work–give people products to play with and they …

14 March 2007

Google Reader Odds and Ends

Filed under: connectivity, marketing, nokia, phoneboy, politics, telecom - 14 Mar 2007

More off the Google Reader. Funny, my starred list has gotten bigger…

The US a Third World Communications Country:  I have to agree with Rich Tehrani. We do live in a third-world country when it comes to communications. That’s what …

4 February 2007

Marketing, Marketing!

Filed under: marketing - 04 Feb 2007

There is this scene in the classic Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs where Lone Starr and Yogurt talk about merchandising. (Pilfered from the relevant Wikiquote article)

Lone Starr: Yogurt. What is this place? What is it that you do here?Yogurt: Merchandising.Barf: …