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John Jorgensen

No Business Model? Dell Has Made $1 Million from Twitter

December 16, 2008

A post by InternetNews reveals that Dell has made $1 million in sales directly from sending product alerts to people following Dell’s Twitter account.
This news comes at the same time that Twitter is in the process of hiring a product manager to head up the task of monetizing the micro-blogging service.
We reported earlier on Twitter [...]

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Dark Knight Blu-Ray First With BD-Live Features

December 10, 2008

The Dark Knight Blu-ray release is the first Blu-ray disc that supports special online features, otherwise known as BD-Live.
Blu-ray 2.0 player required. Hint: PS3 would be a good choice.
Launch the BD-Live feature on the disc and you’re prompted to create an account with Warner Brothers. The first part of the registration takes place on the [...]

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Vegas Showtime: Microsoft Zune Phone May Be Announced At CES

December 9, 2008

Microsoft is rumored to be premiering their elusive Zune phone at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on January 7th.
See our previous post about a possible Zune phone, and our update to that post with reasons why a Zune phone doesn’t make sense (Microsoft would be competing against all its own Windows [...]

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iTunes Rumored to Go DRM-Free Today

December 9, 2008

According to a report submitted to AppleInsider by French technology site ElectronLibre, Apple may be poised to drop DRM from all major label tracks on iTunes today (Sony, Universal, and Warner — EMI already went DRM free in April ‘07).
In what amounts to a giant “f*ck you” to the United States, the report also claims [...]

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Will Search Marketing Drop in Q1? Some Think So

December 8, 2008

Citibank’s Mark Mahaney went to a SEM conference and execs gave him a nervous outlook for search marketing’s future in Q1 of ‘09: “We sensed specific nervousness about the Q1 outlook and the possibility that Q1 could actually be the real inflection point quarter–i.e. the first negative sequential growth quarter ever for Search.”
To paraphrase Mark [...]

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