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The Age of Guerrilla Idea Sharing

We should also note that the almost casual IP capture is nearly frictionless, there is just about no cost associated with either capture or dissemination. SuccessFactors thinks that this kind of sharing will likely be a form of training for many companies going forward, and the combined company is betting on it. In the press release for this announcement, SuccessFactors noted that the market for employee training is worth US$100 billion annually in the U.S. alone. This could result in some amount of disintermediation for trainers and training software, but not in a direct sense; I doubt that short employee videos will rival professional training directly -- at least immediately...

IBM Aims to Help Enterprises Smarten Up About Social Commerce

"The social media focus is intriguing, but the press releases and statements seem ill-defined, so I'm not entirely confident IBM has a full strategy here," said Savage. "The statement that sellers are unprepared for this changing world in the press release is very odd, and a bit arrogant. No one knows exactly what's going on in the marketing world and commerce, it's changing so rapidly."

OPINION

Microsoft- Nokia Tag Team: Mobile or Bust

Microsoft and Nokia were dark horses in the mobile devices and associated cloud services race. Attempting to hitch the two horses together with baling wire and press releases doesn't get them any kind of leg up on the competition. It may even hobble them for good ...

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The Week of the Bounce

Some highlights from the press release: Record FY 2010 revenue of $193.1 million grows 16 percent over 2009, exceeds First Call consensus....

Vendors Let Fly With CES Tablet Teasers

"Toshiba has not officially announced the tablet yet," spokesperson Katie Brodahl told TechNewsWorld. "Unfortunately, our news was leaked and we aren't giving out the press release or any additional specs until CES." Lenovo Looming?...

Sweeping Federal Insider Trading Probe Yields Another Arrest

Council and chief public information officer for Bharara's office, Ellen Davis, told the E-Commerce Times the office had no comment beyond its press release All Roads Lead to Primary Global Research...

EXPERT ADVICE

7 Ways to Fatten Your Social Media Monitoring Payback

As blogging has matured, it has become a mainstream part of the media world. But bloggers are different from journalists; they don't want merely to be put on the press release email blast. They respond more positively when pitched a story that relates to the "memes" they are writing about.

The New PR: Little Tweets From Big Cheeses

However, in the age of 140-character social media bursts unfettered by the demands of press releases, careful wording, and targeted news placement, what matters isn't how the message -- or messenger -- is groomed, but the people it reaches. "It's not at all surprising that Go...

Dell Cozies Up to Compellent

Compellent told the E-Commerce Times it had nothing to add to the brief press release on both companies' websites acknowledging merger talks Internal and External Benefits...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Silo Busting: Q&A With EDL CEO Bill Loumpouridis

Oracle bought ATG for about $1 billion, and if you read the press release about the deal, they talk about a multichannel CRM and e-commerce solution, and that's where they want to go. We're already there. We already have that seamless single-platform view of CRM and e-commerce. It's unique...

Wikileaks Wrangling May Be Escalating Into Cyberwar

Wikileaks fires back, not with a bomb or hand grenade, but a tweet. "Amazon's press release does not accord with the facts on public record. It is one thing to be cowardly. Another to lie." A War by Any Other Name...

Google Denies Rankings Hanky-Panky as EU Pursues Probe

EC spokesperson Amelia Torres referred the E-Commerce Times to the commission's press release, declining further comment on the investigation Several Allegations...

PRODUCT REVIEW

RockMelt Effortlessly Melds Social Networking With a Browser

Given the dominance of the major players in the browser market, any press release announcing a new one might as well be a suicide note. That hasn't discouraged developers from introducing new browsers. Some of those browsers have even been able to spark some initial buzz -- although the kind of buzz volume surrounding RockMelt hasn't been heard in browser circles in some time...

OPINION

Solving AT&T’s Ballooning Problem

During the last few years, things have changed. I haven't talked with Larry in a long time. AT&T sends press releases and emails on a regular basis, but the valuable two-way communications have suffered. Unless it wants to reach out to brief me on something, I have very few communications with the company. It has become a fortress with tall, thick walls. Everything is very official...

OPINION

Solving AT&T’s Ballooning Problem

During the last few years, things have changed. I haven't talked with Larry in a long time. AT&T sends press releases and emails on a regular basis, but the valuable two-way communications have suffered. Unless it wants to reach out to brief me on something, I have very few communications with the company. It has become a fortress with tall, thick walls. Everything is very official...

OPINION

Solving AT&T’s Ballooning Problem

During the last few years, things have changed. I haven't talked with Larry in a long time. AT&T sends press releases and emails on a regular basis, but the valuable two-way communications have suffered. Unless it wants to reach out to brief me on something, I have very few communications with the company. It has become a fortress with tall, thick walls. Everything is very official...

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Catching a New Wave of PR Opportunities

Companies like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and Cox are firing on all cylinders right now. In addition, their public relations efforts are excellent. They are proactively pumping out press releases with all sorts of story ideas and information. They feed the media and ...

Feds Seek Sweeping Power to Hunt Bad Guys on the Web

"We're preparing a press release on this issue," Christopher Calabrese, legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington, D.C., offices, told TechNewsWorld ...

OPINION

Making Sense of the Intel-McAfee Puzzler

Intel sums up McAfee's value proposition in the second paragraph of its press release, saying that while security is a fundamental component of online computing, current solutions do not "fully address billions of new Internet-ready devices, including mobile and wireless devices, TVs, cars, medical devices and ATM machines, as well as the accompanying surge in cyberthreats." Translation: Traditional user- and organization-oriented security solutions are neither supple nor robust enough to meet the needs of increasingly embedded and globally dispersed digital intelligence.

Intel Doubles Down on Netbook Processors

"We listed eight OEMs in our press release today, and others will maketheir own announcements in the next few months," Intel's Ramirez said."The fact that all major OEMs are still developing and innovating onnetbooks is a key indicator that these types of devices are stillrelevant. Intel continues to see a healthy demand for netbooks, and wedon't expect that to change any time soon."

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