May 27, 2010 10 Comments
In addition to my previous coverage of iPad vs. Netbook, here is another stat and opinion you may want to check out. The new data is from consumer electronics company, Retrevo, which looks like iPads might be putting a significant dent in netbook sales. Read more of this post
May 26, 2010 6 Comments
Did anyone watch the market today? Apple’s market capitalization hit $227.1 overtook Microsoft’s $226.3 Billion. As a stock holder of both companies since late 90’s, this is the first time. Congrats Apple!
what does this mean?
Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, and iMorethings to come, is now the world’s most valuable technology company today 4:00 p.m US EST Wed May 26th, 2010.
I remember the time I bought apple’s stock in 1997 around $22 and stayed in low $20’s for years. Apple’s Board had pushed out Steve Jobs at the time, and the company was widely believed to go bust. Read more of this post
May 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
Having tried out literally all the social media channels for my companies and Awesome DC since 2005, I have had the best luck with Google and LinkedIn than others. Twitter, Facebook, youtube, etc. do not even come close to LinkedIn.
Well, since Google is not quite a social media channel yet, I will focus on my LinkedIn experience. I think other social media channels could be as effective as Linkedin depending on the nature of your business. So, I am not encouraging you to dump other channels. You just need to identify the appropriate channel(s) for your type of company first. That would be another blog post that I will do next. Read more of this post
May 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
NetProspex has published some pretty interesting findings about the use of social media by companies and their employees. Each company’s ranking is determined by its employees’ overall social media activity, including the average number of connections across various networks. NetProspex also ranked employees on Twitter by average number of tweets and followers, and compared male and female employees’ social scores.
Looks like Microsoft has an army of employees with Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, what does that mean? Everyone knows that Microsoft doesn’t listen to its customers so this seems backwards? Who are they tweeting to and does it even help sales? Is there any correlation between these graphs and anything business related? Read more of this post
May 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
Facebook has done a lot of good for our society. It has brought people together, and created communities that previously didn’t exist. However, they have been pretty acting pretty naugthy past two years or so.
Mashable recently conducted a survey among their readers regarding their experience with Facebook and their rational for quitting it. The feedback from the users is interesting which I think it applies to many of us including a few close friend of my own. Not sure I will quit it anytime soon though.
31% of respondents proclaimed their intention to stick with Facebook, and approximately the same number cited access to personal information as their number-one reason for vamoosing. Read more of this post
May 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
U.S. online retail spending soared 10% to $34 billion in the first quarter — the largest quarterly jump in nearly two years by upper-income consumer spending – the largest increase in spending since the second quarter of 2008, according to comScore.
Key first-quarter highlights are: Read more of this post
May 25, 2010 Leave a Comment
Thanks to the launch of iPhone in 2007, it looks like the year 2010 is going to be a great year for smartphones. According to the technology research firm, Gartner, sales of the smartphones hit 54 million in Q1 of 2010 alone, an increase of 49%.
Gartner said the first quarter had been the strongest ever for smartphone sales since way back in 2006, which indicates people are finally starting to emerge from two years of economic hardship. Indeed, according to the figures, smartphones made up some 17.3% of all handset sales last quarter up 13.6% over Q1 2009.
Google’s Android operating system seems to have caused quite a shake-up and won a victory against rival Microsoft, pipping the Redmond software giant to the post and snatching fourth place in the smartphone operating system hierarchy. Read more of this post
May 25, 2010 3 Comments
Within the first month after I got off the boat from Shiraz to Washington, DC in 1985, I could tell something was very different about DC. No, it wasn’t the politics, nor the museums, nor the awesome sceneries of Washington, DC. Something else made me fall in love with the city and settle here for good – the insane ratio of women to men in DC. I have been always wondered about the reason behind it for the past 25 years. I think I’ve finally found the answer today on May 25th, 2010. Read more of this post
May 25, 2010 Leave a Comment
Hawaii tourism officials and hotel executives are in Washington, D.C., this week seeking new meetings business for Hawaii at the industry’s largest one-day trade show.
Representatives from the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau and Hawaii Convention Center will attend the 2010 Springtime Expo this Thursday — an event that is expected to attract 4,000 meeting planners and industry professionals from the surrounding Washington, D.C., region.
Also attending the event are hotel executives from a number of properties, including the Grand Wailea, Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa, Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort & Spa, Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa, Sheraton Waikiki, The Fairmont Orchid Hawaii, Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort & Spa and Westin Maui Resort & Spa. Read more of this post
May 25, 2010 2 Comments
by David D’Agostino
“Beatles Tribute Band” doesn’t really do justice to the performances of the Fab Faux. From what I had seen and heard before the show, it was obvious this was not your typical tribute band. First: no wigs, no Black Oyster Pearl Ludwig drum kit, and they’re not even all that cute. (OK, Jack’s kinda cute and Will has a mop-top).
Second, they sing in their own voices — no phony accents, no vocal mimicry, just straight-ahead interpretations of the lead vocals with transcendent harmonies.
Third, and most important, the music. Except for Paul McCartney’s band, you have never heard (and never will hear) a group that can play the music of the Beatles like the Fab Faux can. Unless you heard The Beatles, and if you did — you didn’t hear them play most of these songs. Read more of this post
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