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Thursday 04th March 2010

Answering @JJProjects about $100 million

It’s one of those age old questions (adjusted for inflation), what would you do if you suddenly had 100 million dollars?

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Friday 26th February 2010

Apple’s unfortunate environment backstep

Photo Copyright Apple Inc.

It seems Apple’s much publicised environmental focus which they’ve heavily advertised and proudly featured in their demonstration videos will be the furthest extent of their openness. From FastCompany.com:

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Tuesday 09th February 2010

You’ve lived in Singapore too long when…

Screenshot from the Mountain Bike Action website

You know you’ve lived in Singapore too long when you see the Mountain Bike Action magazine’s website URI MBAction.com and you think of business administration.

Monday 08th February 2010

It’s started on CNET…

CNET advertising for a Britney Spears Top 10

And here I was worrying that CNET’s standards would slip when CBS bought them out. Glad to see my fears were unfounded, groundless and unwarranted. Hey, I didn’t even need to use a thesaurus for that one.

Sunday 20th December 2009

How web business still surprises me

Beenz, the defunct internet currency

I’ve studied economics extensively in school, university and by myself but I haven’t really done any business studies; perhaps with these points on why current internet business still surprises me will show this! Some random observations:

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Saturday 19th December 2009

Palm nostalgia and marketing folk

My iPods and such

Some less than stellar news about Palm is being reported by Kevin Kelleher over at GigaOm.

The latest grim plot twist came last week when Palm reported its fiscal second-quarter earnings. Smartphones sold to consumers fell 4 percent from a year ago, before Palm even debuted the Pre. A costly ad campaign sank gross margins to 25.6 percent from 27.9 percent a quarter earlier.

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Tuesday 24th November 2009

CNET advertisement positioning #fail

CNET advertisement positioning #fail

Bill Maher on the sole profit motive

Bill Maher with Richard Dawkins by Bbsrock on Wikipedia

When did the profit motive become the only reason to do anything? When did that become the new patriotism?

~ Bill Maher

In other news, the photo above by Bbsrock on Wikipedia of Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins at the Atheist Alliance International conference in Burbank, California is the definition of awesomeness ^_^.

Friday 20th November 2009

Dell down, Microsoft makes hardware move

Dell and Microsoft's failed PlaysForSure

Dell’s profits are way down, and Microsoft makes a move that could scare beige box makers even more.

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Tuesday 17th November 2009

Oversensitivity in computer games?

Eve from WallE, Copyright Disney Pixar

Reading the always entertaining Slashdot I saw a story claiming the Russian government pulled Modern Warfare 2 (screenshot above… uh, yeah!) from stores, allegedly because they weren’t too happy having their citizens being demonised as terrorists. Eldavojon asks "Is cultural sensitivity becoming an overly played card in the gaming world? Not too long ago, Wolfenstein was recalled in Germany for containing Nazi symbols." and I attempt to answer.

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