Here is a few of my favorite Super Bowl ads
Doritos – crashes the Super Bowl – The strategy have the most commercial at the Super Bowl.
Budweiser
Audi
Bridgestone
Hyundai
Gatorade
And the most discussed ads
Megan fox for Motorola
Monday, February 8, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Smartphone Shipments Hit Record in 2009
Jim Dalrymple, CNET
(Credit: IDC)
(Credit: IDC)
Market research firm IDC on Thursday reported a record level of smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter of 2009, when vendors shipped 54.4 million devices. That’s up 39 percent from the same quarter a year ago, the company said.
The handset company with the largest growth in 2009 was Apple. Apple’s unit shipments for the year were 25.1 million, up from 13.8 million units in 2008. The company’s market share rose from 9.1 percent in 2008 to 14.4 percent in 2009, an 81.9 percent year-over-year increase.
(Credit: IDC)
That represents the largest year-over-year increase of any mobile manufacturer, according to IDC.
Fourth quarter 2009 shipments and market share were even better for Apple. The company shipped 8.7 million iPhones in the quarter, up from 4.4 million units during the same quarter of 2008. Its market share rose from 11.2 percent in 2008 to 16 percent in 2009, representing a 97.7 percent growth increase.
(Credit: IDC)
Apple finished in the third spot for the fourth quarter and yearly market share. Nokia took the top spot finishing the year with 67.7 million shipments, an 11.9 percent increase over 2008. Its market share was 38.9 percent.
Research In Motion finished in second place with 34.5 million shipments for 2009, an increase of 46.2 percent over 2008, and a 19.8 percent market share.
Acer F900 vs Motorola Milestone
Acer F900 is designed especially for style conscious users and for those who know mobile technology better. It has all the major MO applications which are necessary in any gadget. The handset is packed with beautiful design and large display screen. It covers all the four networks so that users can enjoy best network coverage. Milestone is the first of its kind which runs on Android operating system. Motorola Milestone acquires all the major features and functions that are necessary for any handset. It is a slider handset so when one is opening the slider, it reveals the beautiful QWERTY keypad which looks amazing while holding in hand.
Design and Display
Acer F900 acquires amazing and sleek design with very smooth edges on both sides. The dimension of the gadget measure between 117.5 x 63.5 x 12.9 mm and it weighs just 150 g. It has a large TFT touch screen display and there are 4 buttons placed below the display screen, Call, Menu, back and End keys. The stylus is placed at the top left of the device from where it is very easily accessible. Camera shutter key, memory card slot and volume rocker button are placed on its right side while the power button and USB port is located on the top of the device.
In the case of Motorola Milestone, it acquires a huge TFT display screen which looks amazing on its first sight. It has dimensions which measure 115.8 x 60 x 13.7 mm and it weighs 165 g. It has a large 3.7 inches TFT touch screen display which supports the resolution of 480 x 854 pixels. The capacitive touch screen of this gadget supports 16 million colors which offer an amazing experience to the users. Motorola is packed with accelerometer sensor, proximity sensor and QWERTY keypad for 5 way navigation. On the other hand, The Acer is loaded with Widget based user interface and Handwriting Recognition features. This feature enables the users to lock the device and no one can unlock by any means.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Motorola MILESTONE/DROID Review-GSMArena
Android devices come from all walks of life but rarely do they carry as much baggage as the MILESTONE. Motorola seem to be betting the farm with the MILESTONE and the warm reception it’s getting must leave them breathing a sigh of relief. Catching the Android wave may’ve seemed like the last available move but a device like the MILESTONE makes turning the tide much more likely.
So, Motorola are back with a bang and the MILESTONE is one of the best spec’d phones to ever run Android. The Google Nexus One is supposed to instill fear in nearly every touchscreen device out there but the Moto Droid must be positioned well enough by now to withstand the attack.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Management by Imagination
Roger Martin
Here is an excerpt of an article written by Roger Martin for the Harvard Business blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Daily Alerts, please visit dailyalert@email.harvardbusiness.org.Management by Imagination
Roger Martin
The perception that good management is closely linked to good measurement runs deep. How often do you hear these old saws repeated: “If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t count”; “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”; “If you can’t measure it, it won’t happen”? We like these sayings because they’re comforting. The act of measurement provides security; if we know enough about something to measure it we almost certainly have some control over it.
But however comforting it can be to stick with what we can measure, we run the risk of expunging something really important. What’s more, we won’t see what we’re missing because we don’t know what it is that we don’t know. By sticking simply to what we can measure, we come to imagine a small and constrained world in which we are prisoners of a “reality” that is in fact an edifice we’ve unknowingly constructed around ourselves.
The late 19th and early 20th century American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce was the first to point out that no new idea in the world was ever produced by inductive or deductive logic. Analyzing the past, crunching the existing numbers to produce the future can do nothing more than extrapolate the future from the past. So if you stick to measuring what you can already measure, you cannot create a future that is different than the past.
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We need to get away from all those old sayings about measurement and management, and in that spirit I’d like to propose a new wisdom: “If you can’t imagine it, you will never create it.” The future is about imagination, not measurement. To imagine a future, one has to look beyond the measurable variables, beyond what can be proven with past data. While Motorola was projecting future sales volumes of “feature phones,” Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research in Motion, was imagining what executive life would be like if you could receive your emails on a handheld device. How compelling would an ordinary phone be if you could have a BlackBerry attached to your belt? He couldn’t “prove” that this would be a good idea. There was no data on the demand patterns for smartphones, because smartphones existed only in his imagination. But a mere 11 years after the launch of the product of his imagination, RIM leads Motorola by an ever-accelerating margin in sales, market share and profitability.
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To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Daily Alerts, please visit dailyalert@email.harvardbusiness.org.
Roger Martin is the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada and the author of The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Press, 2009). His website is: www.rogerlmartin.com.
Tangerine CEO to Lead Sustainable Product Design Debate at PDM10
Professor Martin Darbyshire, CEO of the internationally renowned design consultancy Tangerine will lead the debate on Sustainable Product Design at the Plastics Design and Moulding Exhibition and Conference (PDM10), taking place at the Telford International Centre from 18 to 20 May 2010.
With worldwide focus shifting towards a more responsible management of resources, Professor Darbyshire’s Design Debate keynote on 19th May will highlight the growing importance of sustainability and how its integration into the product design process offers increased opportunities for plastics designers. He will also examine the crucial role sustainable product design will have in shaping the behaviour of tomorrow’s consumer s to live in a more resource-friendly manner.
Professor Martin Darbyshire, CEO of Tangerine
“Sustainable design and manufacture is a vital element in the development of new plastic products,” said Steve Crowhurst, PDM10 event director. “As head of the universally respected design consultancy Tangerine and a leader in consumer insight, innovation and design strategy for major manufacturers, retailers and service-sector clients globally, Professor Darbyshire is uniquely well placed to offer market predictions and to lead PDM10’s Sustainable Product Design debate.”
Professor Darbyshire has worked on some of the world’s biggest brand names including Fujitsu, LG, Motorola, Nissan, Nikon, Orange, Samsung, Toyota, Toshiba and Unilever. Before establishing Tangerine, whose co-founders included Jonathan Ive, now chief designer at Apple, he also worked alongside Bill Moggridge, head of IDEO, the leading US product design consultancy. Tangerine has been the recipient of many national and international design awards, most notably the DBA Design Effectiveness ‘Grand Prix’ for its design for British Airways of the world’s first, fully-flat business class bed which since its launch in 2000, has remained the profit engine of the airline.
PDM10 will also host keynote speeches from Sir Richard Needham, international and commercial director at Dyson, who will present at the conference’s Moulding Business Debate and Lord Bhattacharyya, founder and director of the internationally renowned WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group), who will lead the Innovations Debate.
PDM is the most comprehensive plastics event in the UK. Full details of the PDM Conference are expected to be announced on 1 February 2010. For more information visit: http://www.pdmevent.com
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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