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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As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
The apartment and house sharing service, Airbnb, now requires members to verify their identities by demonstrating a presence on the web, and by either scanning a government ID or entering detailed personal details. Other enterprises should take a close look at Airbnb's verification policies.
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.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
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.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
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 automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
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