OK… so that now makes a ratio of one award per customer. -Ian. http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/001116/wildfire.html Thursday November 16, 11:42 am Eastern Time Press Release Wildfire Wins World Communication Award Wildfire’s Voice-Activated Personal Assistant...
Apparently Universal is taking $25M from the settlement with MP3.com and distributing it among their artists. By the time anyone gets anything it’ll be about $5 per artist. MP3.com has settled but they still suck. They have no business plan… they have a...
If there ever was a stupid business model, it’s the Free ISP. Now, that being said.. the Free ISP model is rather successful in the UK, but only because of reciprocal revenues paid by BT and the Local telcos to the ISPs. Even then, the pay-per-minute model for...
Okay, so I’m what you’d call “unique”. I am a very mobile user and also very disorganized, so I need tools to prop me up. But, over the years, the hard lessons of early-adopter victimization have saltied me to the gimmickry of high-tech,...
I know SOME of you on this list will think I’m looking over your shoulder but I’ve been researching this myself through rumour boards. I think that this device is exactly what Research In Motion (a Canadian company) needs to push ahead — a nice shiny...
VERY friggin’ cool. $200.00 @ Amazon, and Gersham just bought one. 🙂 http://www.expanium.philips.com/philips/expanium/product/product.html eXpanium is our first CD portable that merges the convenient CD format with MP3 technology. By adding MP3-CD playback...
The below article is interesting, in a soothsayer-of-doom sort of way. This brought to my mind three points: – Given the statistically significant percentage of American Presidents that have been shot at while in office, isn’t this alone an argument for...
Back to Business.. Looks like the uprising of consumers against the Music Industry has taken a fairly heavy blow. The Music Industry equivalents to Che Guevara and Fidel Castro have both been snapped up by legitimate companies with similarly legitimate (and legal)...
You can truly buy anything on the internet: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&itemG7824952 I think UPS might have a problem shipping the girl though. -Ian.
I was doing some list administration earlier and I thought it might be interesting to forward a list of the folks who presently are subscribed to the FOIB list. I also included brief, usually non-descriptive bios on each of them (and no, I do not expect to be able to...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
