Also, Zuuls were one of the villains of Ghostbusters. "Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!"
But I prefer to think of Azul as the most evil and feared servant of Lucifer, who is the only one permitted to speak its name.
More interesting for enterprises is Azul with Windows RT and Azul with Windows 8 Pro, but Microsoft is somewhat apprhensive that these still-secret services aren't sufficiently tamed for human use.
Yes, I think Microsoft has a good chance of significantly increasing its global market share. Right now it's about three percent -- worse than Symbian and RIM. But Symbian is a dead end for Nokia because its future is with Windows Phone, and RIM won't offer any new BlackBerry 10 phones until some time in the first quarter of 2013.
As I've written many times, Windows Phone 8 is a very good operating system, and the new phones are finally competitive from a hardware standpoint (more or less) with Android and the iPhone. Also, Microsoft will do a huge amount of marketing for Windows 8 on desktops/laptops and also for its Surface tablets. Windows Phone 8 will benefit somewhat from that marketing because it's all part of the Windows name.
Microsoft and its handset partners have a difficult job ahead of them, but with great marketing -- and cooperation from the cellular operators -- Windows Phone 8 could do better. And, since it's starting at a three percent market share, it doesn't have much to go but up!
Alan, what do you think, with a present situation at the market- can new Microsoft phones compete to Apple and Samsung in the future? Now the situation doesn't look very optimistic for Microsoft, but I think it had been before- when Apple seemed to be a leader in computer industry but they lost their positions when they lost Jobs.
I think Microsoft outdid itself with confusing products with Windows RT and Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro. And remember that great spoof of how Microsoft would redesign the simple iPod package?
In comparison, Windows Phone 8 is probably the simplest of all the Windows versions to understand and use. (Thinking of a possible blog for the CMO Site about Microsoft marketing and Windows Phone 8.)
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The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors
a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
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Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
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While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
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Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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