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Orange Rides the Social Wave

Published in April 24th, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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MocoNews today picked up an interesting story on Orange having cut a deal with Facebook and MySpace for free browsing on those sites for their prepaid users.  According to the article, by giving access to those sites for free data cost, Orange is trying to attract more users to their mobile portal.I think this is [...]

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Nokia Sells Beer, Apple and RIM own Night Clubs

Published in April 8th, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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Nokia is probably going to announce yet another stellar quarter on April 17 – unique in the industry where their traditional competition seems to fail – most notably Motorola.  Their 40% market share, a well-oiled product design and manufacturing machine and a $3.6 billion marketing budget will keep them executing well in the direction they [...]

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Sonopia Ceases Operations – Another Victim on the US MVNO Scene

Published in April 7th, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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(Disclaimer: I have been part of the journey of this company in 2006 until early 2007 as a bizdev consultant so this serves as a healthy self-criticism.) Sources familiar with the matter today reported that Sonopia has practically ceased operations and laid off all its US staff at the end of March. The [...]

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CTIA is over, thank God

Published in April 4th, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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Here I am, I guess it is important to take some time to get into a writing routine and post an entry every day so MEOW gets published as it should.  CTIA is a sick child – the potential is enormous but the carriers have treated it like the Soviets handled the Chernobyl aftermath. Or [...]

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