Off Contract: Democratize Data

Smartphones rule the world but even they have a master – data. Smartphones without data are just dumb phones – bricks you use to text and hangup on the Redcross with. Smartphones have shackled their users to data and the carriers are taking advantage of the situation. #141476527 / gettyimages.com Cell carriers now shape their plans around data – not texts or…

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The Current and Future State of Advertising

In my strategic management class we were “discussing” Google and its competitors. I put “discussing” in quotes because it was really the teacher and two other students who had read the case study but none of them understood the points they were trying to make. Class that day was equivalent to pulling teeth for a…

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Surface Pro: A glimpse to the future

  As a late Christmas present I was gifted a Surface Pro 128 GB with a blue touch cover. Plagued with a rather suspicious launch, considered by many to be a ploy to drum up excitement, I was forced to wait for my chance to hand Microsoft my money until yesterday, Sunday February 24th – a…

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