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Recipe to Decrease Apple Computer Sales
Take one part recession, two parts successful Microsoft commercials, and three parts fast selling netbooks and you have a recipe that is causing a decrease in Apple computer sales. [podcast]http://evangelistmktg.com/audio/Technology%20Tailor_05-07-09.mp3[/podcast]
Location Aware Applications
Location aware applications are coming to your computer and cell phones. These applications target local search results and text ads to market to you based on your location. Currently you can chose to allow these applications to run, or not....
Electronic Book Readers for Newpaper and Magazines
The Amazon Kindle electronic book reader has been a big success. Lately there has been buzz about larger handheld electronic readers being developed for newspapers and magazines. Specifically there will be a larger Kindle which will preserve the actual printed...
Alex’s Travel Tips
Alex provides his rules for saving money while booking travel: always use the Internet and never pay full price for hotels and cars. Check out priceline.com. [podcast]http://evangelistmktg.com/audio/Technology%20Tailor_05-04-09.mp3[/podcast]
1 Million G! Google Phones Sold
Within six months T-Mobile has sold 1 million G1 Google phones. Google has taken over six percent of US smartphone market and is now the fourth largest cell phone operating system in the US....
Nintendo Established Groundwork for Modern & Portable Gaming
The Nintendo Gameboy turned 20 years old last week. The device was created by a former Nintendo company janitor and was a highly successful because it was simple and fun. 118 million Gameboy units have been sold....
$4,756 for Text Messaging
A 13 year old girl sent 10,000 text messages and received as just as many. Her parents did no know how much she was texting until they received her cell phone bill for $4,756. The girl's dad disabled phone with a hammer....
Apple App Store Reaches 1 Billion Downloads
Apple reached over 1 billion downloads from its App store last week for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The Apple App store is one of the major reasons for the iPhone's popularity, and many other smartphone companies are following Apple with making application stores...
Apple Responding to Microsoft
As Alex mentioned last week, Microsoft is beating apple at marketing game with their new commercials. Apple recently responded to Microsoft explaining why consumers chose to buy Macs, and they are releasing 4 new ads....
Illegal to Copy DVDs to Computers
It is illegal to copy movies to your computer from DVDs that you have purchased. Many consumers think that we shoud be able to do this, but why do we need to burn movies to our to hard drives when we can just watch the DVDs?...