Is Long Tail not so long?

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Today on Slate, Farhad Manjoo wrote a great piece on why the long tail might actually not be working /or be right. Actually the article goes on to state how the long tail is really more flat and that we, as consumers are indeed “nibbling” on the niche or obscure content (movies/music), but [...]

FCC Chairman boy takes aim at Comcast

First, let me just say, thank god. Second, let me also say that I can’t even begin to cover this story as well as Gizmodo did in terms of ascerbic tone, wit and sentiment. My dreamy and most favorite Gizmodo reporter Sean Fallon, must have read my thoughts because he says exactly what I would [...]

The ubiquitious iPhone story

Okay we will cover it just because it would look bad if we didn’t. But all we will say is this: despite Apple’s iTunes activation server which had so many requests for service and start ups that it shut down repeatedly — our favorite guy, Steve Job and his little company sold [...]

DNA of IPTV middleware

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Some of the Telco trade media have made it a numbers game to determine who is the best provider of middleware for IPTV deployments –  but no one is defining the significance of those numbers and if they mean anything. They don’t. Most middleware out there was meant to scale – it just [...]

Telco sector busy busy busy

We are really into emerging markets in the Telco sector — and this weeks news was all about those markets — from India’s Reliance Communications in its extended merger talks with South Africa’s MTN to Russian telco Comstar United buying Ural Telephone Company for $43.3m USD. To do what you ask – simple — to [...]

XX chromosome extinct in Silicon Valley

This past week, we saw the ouster of VMWare’s CEO Diane Greene, but we aren’t going to even debate the why and how of it – but how as Silicon Alley reported – the reasons are less important than what this signals -a consistent and ongoing decline of female executives running America’s corporations. Want numbers? [...]