Archive for the 'Launches' Category
Verizon’s (VZ) high-speed customers lose the signal
Verizon (NYSE: VZ)’s new fiber-to-the-home FiOS broadband product is supposed to deliver faster Net speeds than cable. It has a full menu of TV and movies and is a very good service for about the same price as cable.
But, a service is only as good as its customer service. A few weeks ago Verizon …
Google heads to the moon
Already dominating life here on soil, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is now making plans to conquer outer space too.
Google announced the Google Lunar X Prize yesterday at its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The competition offers $30 million in prizes to anyone who can get a robot to …
Zuora: Powering the Netflix economy?
In the tech world, the belief is that innovation is mostly about creating great systems and solutions. Yet, when you look at some of the top growth companies - such as Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), and ZipCar — it is often “business model” innovation that’s the big competi…
Wal-Mart solidifies India plans with Bharti for 2008
Although Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and Indian retail powerhouse Bharti hooked up in a 2007 partnership t being Wal-Mart’s presence into India, concrete plans were not set in stone. That is, until now. The world’s largest retailer has taken a measured approach into entering the Indian mar…
T-Mobile: home phone prices could drop for nearly everyone
Get ready for the price of making phone calls to drop, probably a lot. T-Mobile is introducing a product to replace most home landlines with internet-based phone service. According to The Wall Street Journal “The service will be available only to T-Mobile cellphone customers. To sign up, they must b…
MySpace hears the music
Everyone else is in the music download commerce so why not add News Corp (NYSE: NWS)’s MySpace. The big social network is in talks with the major record labels including Universal Music and Sony BMG. The service would offer the downloads for free and the service would be supported by advertising.
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Nintendo introduces new game platform
Nintendo officially launched a game in the US which has a feature which Sony (NYSE:SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MISFT) have yet to introduce. The Nintendo Wii Fit is aimed at gamers who want a little exercise. The new product may speak volume about why the Japanese company has a sales lead by its two …
Target stores to be larger and greener as prototypes rolled out
Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) is set to deploy two larger-store prototypes in 2008 that will apparently be bigger than current Target locations and green certified as the company promotes a more environmentally conscious shopping experience to its customers.
In terms of more greener stores, Target…
Girls Gone Wild, the magazine — look out, Playboy (PLA)
The dysfunctional state of the mainstream magazine industry is apparently not ample to dissuade the purveyors of the Girls Gone Wild video franchise from flashing the newsstand. According to Nate Ives of Advertising Age, Girls Gone Wild magazine will soon hit the streets with $9.99 worth of exub…
Intel (INTC) spreads its wings
Intel’s problem has been getting beyond computer chips and successfully selling products for other devi…
Apple’s Macworld star: It’s not the MacBook Air, it’s the AppleTV
Although Apple, Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL)’s Macworld keynote address by CEO Steve Jobs was followed by millions of eyeballs yesterday, the biggest “wow” product was the announcement of the MacBook Air, the world’s thinnest and perhaps most advanced miniature laptop computer. While the MacBook Air stole…
GM’s Cadillac unveils fuel cell prototype vehicle
General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) joined the slew of companies that week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas which touted their technological advances and gave insight into what was ahead. CEO Rick Wagoner even took the opportunity to introduce a Cadillac concept vehicle during his…
Netflix (NFLX) to offer one more IPTV service
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will offer a new box built by LG Electronics, to allow movies to be downloaded by the internet [subscription required] and played on a TV. It sounds a lot like products from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and s…
When will Google’s bells and whistles prepare money?
Will 2008 be the breakout year that some of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)’s products and services besides search-targeted ads are able to start contributing revenue to the company’s bottom line? Pundits will be watching for that, as will Google shareholders, who are mostly large fans of the stock, but r…
