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Every brand is a creative brand. Why? Branding is storytelling, and storytelling is a creative work. While Jobs is mainly referring to products in this quote, his words are just as applicable to branding, something that’s evident in everything the Apple brand does.[read more]

Back in April, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the 25th anniversary of the MBA at Duke’s Fuqua Business School. Of particular note are his views on collaboration. He talks about the kind of people he wants on board at Apple.[read more]

As of 2012, Apple and Samsung are the only two mobile companies in existence that actually turned a profit on smartphones. They basically split 100% of all the profits in the smartphone market! Let's take a look at the numbers to see how it all breaks down.[read more]

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2013 has seen major hype in the wearable technology industry; from Google’s testing program for the Glass explorer product to Olympus's announcement it would launch smart eyeglasses. It's no surprise that Apple would follow this trend before long.[read more]

Social media just got more interesting as Facebook stonewalls Twitter’s Vine application from integrating with its own platform. This sparring match first began when Twitter blocked Instagram links from opening directly on its site.[read more]

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Self-confessed Apple fanatic Rob Shoesmith plans to visit every Apple store in the UK. What inspires this level of brand adoration? And, determined to spend no money, can he really rely on crowdsourcing and social media to take care of his accommodation and bizarre transport plans?[read more]

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When the first BB10 devices were launched in the UK and Canada, the press release mentioned there would be literally thousands of apps in the new and improved BlackBerry World. Not many of us believe everything that a company spokesperson says in press releases, as we have often seen such claims fall short. So I too took the claims with a pinch of salt.[read more]

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With the announcement of BlackBerry 10, many are wondering if the company can, once again, offer businesses something that no other phone can. BlackBerry has always offered a level of security that many businesses felt was worth investing in. Even if the phones were annoying and cumbersome, the fact that BlackBerry encrypted e-mails meant that company secrets were less likely to leak out.[read more]

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The success of Android and Apple phones has made the going tough for Research in Motion, manufacturer of the Blackberry phone. They have a lot of hopes pinned on the impending launch of their BB 10 Smartphones, and for this reason they have gone all out to ensure that this one will indeed catch the fancy of the public.[read more]

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The much anticipated release of RiM’s Blackberry 10 will not generate the wave of cash that the folks in Waterloo are looking for. Why? Because the Google/Apple juggernaut has become too powerful since the last time Research in Motion led the pack.[read more]

So in the end, what may seem like a PR nightmare for the company may actually result in them receiving a small image change in the eyes of those who were set that Apple was nothing but an evil entity who would never admit they have flaws, regardless of how small they are.[read more]

Over the last few days I’ve read a lot of opinions on the interpretation of the Apple Samsung lawsuit findings. Robert Scoble being the brilliant and passionate technology maven that he is, wrote in my opinion the most accurate overview of the trial. He nails it in his statement that simply for a penalty of $1.5 billion Samsung got to be the #2 mobile company leaving other competitors behind...[read more]

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Orbitz is now demonstrating how tracking the fact that people are visiting their website from a Mac can lead to predictions about tastes and spending habits. The assumption is that Mac users have higher income levels and spend more money.[read more]

For months now, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft have been laying the groundwork for a relationship of convenience whose primary goal is to check the Google juggernaut. The Facebook-Microsoft-Apple triple entente is reminiscent of many a four-player Risk board game enjoyed in my youth. In Risk, the goal is world domination, plain and simple.[read more]

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Facebook's IPO must be understood as a bone-of-contention of the Apple, Microsoft and Google APP war. Sharing used to be a positive attitude; it could well be the fastest way to give up our freedom.[read more]

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Is Apple starting to get into the search engine game? Now that Apple is using Baidu in China, it looks like they're trying to distance themselves from Google. What is their endgame?[read more]

Jay Baer from Convince & Convert interviews prolific author, public speaker, consultant, and futurist, self publisher Phil Simon.[read more]

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I’ll have to change the title of the predictions blog next year to something else, because the hype cycle around all the terms prefixed with the word “social” has run its course. Terms like “social networking,” “social media,” “social gaming,” “social buying,” and so on are now officially redundant and will be replaced by other terms in 2012. Organizations will stop thinking about “social” as a special aspect of their business strategy and realize that, just like the internet and telephony, the collaborative elements collectively referred to as “social” are just another aspect of doing business in a connected world.[read more]

"IOS5 has Twitter integration throughout the platform. It’s now possible to tweet a picture from your camera roll with one tap, tweet web pages to your followers or perhaps share some of your video, much easier and much quicker than before. It’s hardware and software working perfectly together."[read more]

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It seems only fitting, in the painful context of Steve Jobs’ passing, to revisit Adam Morgan’s Eating the Big Fish and reflect on the life of a gifted competitor...[read more]