Commerce

Yawn “Universal Music Takes on iTunes”

Who are they kidding. I half laughed this morning when reading the referenced article in BusinessWeek. Seems the chair of Universal Music is enlisting the help of other music companies to roll their own music service. Ok lets look at…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Are you in the Music Industry and love DRM?

If you are you simply need to read this, and if you still don’t get it, then start planning what career you’re going to have next. Unless you change, your company will be DOA. www.fistfulayen.com

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce
DocuPen RC800 Portable Scanner

DocuPen RC800 Portable Scanner

Earlier this year while I was at the Consumer Electronics Show I had the chance to see the DocuPen Portable Scanner demonstrated, and had hoped to be able to try it out myself at some point. Over the past two…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Maybe ad supported food?

I was reading in NY Times about companies that are selling ad supported mobile phones.  My first reaction was scorn, this could only be a way to dupe uninformed marketing managers out of their cash.  For the sake of fairness…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

SCO declares bankruptcy

I have posted on BusinessGeek about SCO’s latest fun and games in declaring bankruptcy.  I don’t believe they are ignorant of the fact that doing so won’t protect them from paying Novell, you cannot protect money that doesn’t rightfully belong to…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Google Likely to Bid on 700mhz Spectrum

Google is likely to dip into its war chest of cash and bid on the 700mhz Spectrum and while this may not be surprising, some recent comments by Google CEO Eric Schmidt seem to confirm it. He said in part:…

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Todd Cochrane