This week, we’re sitting here listening to mp3s through the tiny and tinny speakers of 12” Powerbook, while staring at our recently connected stereo. The one with the 100 watt receiver and incredible B&W bookshelf speakers.

So, why aren’t we listening, really listening to music? Because the tunes we want to listen to are on the [...]

Interesting article in today’s NY Times Chinese companies building global brands by acquiring well-known, existing brands. Because they’ve been in the news, the article mentions the Lenovo acquisition of IBM’s laptop business, Haier’s bid for Maytag and the CNOOC bid for Unocal.

The reason for the global business shopping spree?

“Chinese companies are now facing serious [...]

Have you tried Del.icio.us yet?

Do you know what Del.icio.us is?

Besides having the best name of the .us suffix, Del.icio.us allows you to create a page that of links that you can share with family, friends and visitors to your site.

Del.icio.us says it’s a:
social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to [...]

Pharma to TV: Drop dead.

According to this BrandWeek article, Bristol Myers Squibb is “re-thinking” its use of direct-to-consumer advertising, specifically on television. And if one major pharmaceutical company is re-thinking its Direct-to-Consumer advertising strategy, then others will surely follow.

We’re not surprised. TV advertising is the black hole of advertising budgets. Advertisers could slice and dice [...]

It’s taken us a few days to digest the news that Apple is going to start using Intel chips. Being long-time Mac users, it seems anathema to us. Upon reading the announcement over the weekend, we trolled the usual sites – Macrumors, Slashdot, etc. – but we still can’t make heads or tails of this [...]