The online service is hoping to attract millions of new – and loyal – dial-up customers by subsidizing $299 computers America Online is fighting the tide of dial-up-subscriber losses it has faced for more than a year. … the beleagured online service announced the launch of a low-cost PC loaded with AOL software and aimed [...]
… Veteran Net publisher Adam Engst has finally stumbled on a good business model — fast-turnaround e-books … … From the get-go, Engst has pioneered just about every revenue model on the Internet — ads, subscriptions, sponsorships and the now-ubiquitous tip jar — with mixed success … … But now Engst thinks he’s finally cracked [...]
Die Fernsehsender fallen als Pioniere für das Breitbandgeschäft aus – die Internet-Nutzer wollen nur Musikvideos, Werbefilme und Klamauk Zitate: … die Entwicklung des Breitband-Marktes vor allem davon abhängt, wie Anbieter aus Entertainment-Medien die neue Technologie einsetzen«. Im Klartext heißt das: Legen die Pioniere nicht endlich los, stockt das erhoffte Milliardengeschäft mit schnellen Internet-Zugängen und multimedialen [...]
Plans to sell new hybrid CD/DVDs have hit legal and licensing snags that threaten to scuttle a mass rollout that the hard-hit music industry had been counting on to aid its recovery, people familiar with the matter said this week. weiterlesen new hybrid discs — CD on one side and DVD on the other. They [...]
The Big Tease Investors are touting nanotech as the new biotech. Don’t believe them. Zitat: These days, nanotech resembles the state of ecommerce four years ago: a lot of new startups with no profits (and usually no real products), a few wildly enthusiastic venture capitalists who are eyed with suspicion by their peers, and a [...]
An open letter to the wizards of Wall Street from Benoît Mandelbrot, father of the fractal. Zitat: A well-managed corporation devotes some portion of its research and development budget to basic research, in fields of science that underlie its main business weiterlesen … MK: und das gilt nicht nur für die Finanzbranche, auch wenn diese [...]
The tension between technology and business models is intensifying in the instant messaging market as the largest IM providers test new approaches for working together. So far, business is winning. Zitate: … that business issues, and not technological ones, are the major bottleneck to interoperability … … Everybody wants interoperability, but everybody wants it around [...]
