iPhone Deja Vu – The 3G activation saga
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Friday July 11th marked the highly anticipated release of the iPhone 3G and the official introduction of the App store on the iphone and on iTunes. If you recall, when the iPhone was first introduced, the 3rd party activation service which required coordination with iTunes and AT&T failed miserably. Well fast-forward a year later to [...]
Read MoreNew owners of Soul Train bring along new digital distribution opportunities as well
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The American iconic TV program Soul Train, which ceased production in 2006 has been sold to L.A. based Mad Vision Entertainment and the private equity firm Intermedia Partners. This is a hell of a deal in my mind, as there is a tremendous opportunity to resuscitate the legendary Soul Train franchise which includes the longest [...]
Read MoreDoes my cable box Plaxo too?
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We love to network online, and we love cable TV, but what the hell does the nation’s largest cable company want with a social networking tool? The acquisition of Plaxo by Comcast, could quite possibly revolutionize the effort to converge the digital living room with the PC.
Jay-Z & The ‘Nation’ Doin’ the Damn Thing
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Are you ready for the music industry revolution? Jay-Z and LiveNation are ready to bring it to you with the announcement of what is being billed as the largest music contract ever awarded at $150 Million. But that is only half the story. The other half is that they are formulating a new distribution and [...]
Read MoreThe AOL Right Hook – They buy Bebo!
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Does anyone out there know what in the digital world is AOL trying to do? In a post Microsoft-Yahoo merger-Google dominated world, this is a vital question.
Let’s look a bit at the AOL milestones as of late. They swapped Platform A execs in and out last week, this week they buy Bebo, last year they [...]
