Marketing

Yesterday rumors did the rounds about Twitter charging companies who use the service for commercial purposes. While Twitter currently doesn’t charge businesses for tweeting, a report in Marketing magazine hinted that the company was thinking about it. Twitter: We Won't Charge Companies for...

According to CNet’s Nanotech blog, Stu Pann, vice president in the sales and marketing group at Intel, said at a recent conference that the company sees the ultra portable notebooks differently now. Intel: Netbooks Only "Fine for an Hour" : Read more

Rumor has it the next installment from Microsoft’s $300 million marketing campaign might actually make a little bit of sense. Reports indicate the next Microsoft ad will cut to the point and seem a bit more like a commercial than the two already aired. Microsoft Changing Focus on Bill & Jerry...

During the recent Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) in the US, company senior VP, chief sales and marketing officer Henri Richard noted that one of the great pleasures he has had since joining Freescale last year was to find a really good team in Asia. If You Can Be Number One In China You Can...

San Francisco (CA) - It appears that graphics cards have finally found a non-gaming marketing focus: Video. GPU Transcodes Four 1080p Video Files In Real Time : Read more

There is no better marketing pitch for your new technology than an official thumbs-up from the Wall Street Journal's technology authority, Walt Mossberg. Mossberg Approves Firefox 3 : Read more

The contract price for DRAM chips, after having risen 15-20% in the April-May period, may increase by a single-digit rate in June, but will gain momentum once again from July to September, according to Pai Pei-lin, vice president for global sales and marketing at Nanya Technology. DRAM Contract...

Opinion - Now that SonyEricsson's Xperia X1 has officially been postponed to Q4, we are certain that you soon will see predictions that Apple's 3G iPhone, if it really launches in June, could be set for a home run in the smartphone arena this year. Samsung Instinct: How Bad Marketing Could...

10 personal questions and 10 personal answers from Godfrey Cheng, AMD's Director of Product Marketing in the company's Platform and Gaming Technologies division. 10 Things You Didn't Know About ... Godfrey Cheng : Read more

Chicago (IL) - The next executive to leave AMD is Stephen DiFranco, the company's corporate vice president of consumer sales and marketing. Another AMD Executive Gets The Boot : Read more

Blockbuster is being sued over its partnership with Facebook and its Beacon marketing program which a Texas woman says violated her rights to privacy. Blockbuster Sued Over Facebook Beacon Advertising : Read more

San Francisco (CA) - Game Developer Magazine has published its 7th annual

Seattle (WA) - A veritable who's who of the technology industry has been hit with subpoenas in the lawsuit against Microsoft over its "Vista Capable" marketing campaign. Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart Served Subpoenas In Vista Capable Lawsuit : Read more

Opinion - Given by the speed Sony reacted to the outrage over the company's fee for removing crapware from one of its notebooks, I am pretty sure that the marketing folks are still trying to figure out what hit them and where this enormous wave of complaints came from. Sony's Crapware...

If we had to give the "Most Likely to Smoke Crack" award to a presenter, Netgear’s VP of Product Marketing, Vivek Pathela, would definitely get the award. Netgear Touts : Read more

\"New\" is a word used too freely to describe mobile computer model upgrades. Buyers are often hurt both by significant real model changes that happen too quickly and by mostly bogus changes done for marketing purposes.

Archived from groups: rec.audio.pro (More info?) Hi guys, How have Dan Lavry's claims about the shortcomings of 192 kHz data rates been accepted amongst audio professionals in the US? He released the "sampling theory" pdf on lavryengineering's website, were there any fallacies in it that were...

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs (More info?) Here I am in an area served by SouthwestBell. Sprint has decided not to try and cover my geographic area, I couldn't get Sprint as a local landline phone company no matter how much I might want to, (and with their prices I don't)...

Archived from groups: rec.audio.high-end (More info?) This describes where real hifi must go, make it a "real" experience. The audio biz is now stuck at a commodity stage where only marketing defines "differences" in equipment and no amount of fussing over wire etc. will make it better. While...