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Pystar lawyers accuse Apple of anticompetitive tactics
photo by JuanShot
Hackintosh PC users everywhere will be watching this case. Hopefully Apple learns to think different on this one. Apple is missing a huge opportunity by not opening up the Mac OS to run on other platforms. Apple’s losing billions in revenue by not selling OSX separate from their cool Asus manufactured hardware.
Psystar, based [...]
India VC up 120 percent
photo by vikramwalia
I’m tempted to move to India for a year. I’ve never visited however I have family staying in Kerala and Calcutta. I’d like to experience the incredible growth that’s going on there first hand. How’s broadband in India now?
Venture capital investment in India grew impressively during the second quarter of 2008. Between April [...]
Fast companies use social media
A recent study by The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research reveals that of the fastest growing fortune 500 companies, 77% reported using social media in their business.
According to the study’s authors, “26% of respondents in 2007 felt that social media is “very important” to their business and marketing strategy. That figure rose [...]
Targeted advertising for air travel
photo by Stuck in Customs
This is quite the good idea. Advertising on boarding passes and printed e-ticket vouchers.
Advertising will soon appear on airline boarding passes that passengers who have booked online print out at home. They will fill the white spaces often left on these documents which, after all, are at hand for much of [...]