Posts Tagged ‘ Cell Phones ’

Love Is All You Need

November 1, 2011
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Love Is All You Need

It has almost become a cliché – the way you win in business and in life is to have passion for what you do, your product, and your mission.  Why, then, do we continue to be amazed by Apple’s success? A new study covered in a recent New York Times piece attempted to explore the neuroscientific answers that might explain smartphone addiction.  We witnessed this phenomenon up close and personal in “Goin’ Mobile,” as respondent after respondent admitted they were addicted to their phones. But instead, this study showed...

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Imported From Detroit

October 18, 2011
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Imported From Detroit

From the “Department of Self-Aggrandizement,” please permit me to give props to the hard-working team at jacAPPS for their accomplishment that we’re celebrating this fall. Three months after Steve Jobs opened the Apple App Store in the summer of ‘08, we hung out our mobile apps shingle with the urging of our digital guy, Tim Davis.  And the result has been nothing short of spectacular.  We just passed the 500th mobile app milestone, along with more than 11 million downloads – and rising. Like everything else here at Jacobs...

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Jobs

August 30, 2011
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Jobs

I’m not a “breaking news” kind of guy.  With all the communication we have available to us now from cable news to Twitter to Facebook to newspapers and radio, it is amazing to me how the initial facts of a story so often are flat-out wrong. Perhaps that’s a product of the competitive pressure that permeates newsrooms in a sea of media sources, bloggers, and other “news gatherers” and sharers on the Internet. It’s why I respect public radio, an outlet that more often than not shies away from...

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No Sale

August 1, 2011
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No Sale

One of the more interesting and potentially compelling stories to come out of the Pandora Files this year has to do with a difficult topic for those folks – sales. Obviously, there’s incredible consumer interest in Pandora – especially on mobile devices where listening has surpassed usage on computers.  While the radio industry debates whether Pandora is “radio,” the fact is that many consumers from diverse backgrounds enjoy it immensely. Last week, Edison Research released their version of July audience ratings, based on Pandora’s data.  According to Edison’s calculations,...

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I Am Lion, Hear Me Roar

July 26, 2011
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I Am Lion, Hear Me Roar

Today, thoughts on Apple's latest major offering from Jacobs Media's Mac-Geek-In-Residence, Ralph Cipolla, and why our laptops and desktops are “Goin’ Mobile.” Last week, we saw the much-anticipated release of Mac OS X Lion, Apple's latest iteration of the Mac operating system.  Now if you’re not an “Apple Person,” you might wonder what this could possibly mean to you. When smartphones came out, they mimicked computers in many ways.  The release of Lion accelerates the reverse trend.  Your desktop and laptop are looking more and more like your mobile...

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Summer School 2011

July 19, 2011
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Summer School 2011

We’re back from the 36th Annual Conclave, and Jacobs Media’s “Summer School” sessions.  For the second straight year, we put together solid “classes” that featured some great learning.  And thanks to the continued revival of Conclave, we presented our curriculum to an enthusiastically large crowd, eager to advance their education. It was a fun morning.  Lori Lewis (bottom left), our newest digital and social staffer, brought her social media skills to the classroom with a great session that helped attendees better understand the rules of interactivity with the audience. ...

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Pew & Smartphones

July 13, 2011
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Pew & Smartphones

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released their first standalone study about smartphone ownership.  I'll sum it up for you in two basic findings: People love their smartphones, and… …smartphone ownership crosses many demographic lines. So no matter whether you program, sell, or own radio stations, this phenomenon touches your business in so many different ways. And if you've seen our Techsurvey 7 presentation, you know that smartphones combine critical mass with out-and-out passion. Here's a word cloud that depicts how cell phone owners describe their...

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SOMO

July 5, 2011
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SOMO

As we learned up close and personal in “Goin’ Mobile” last year, social media and mobile are dual accelerants – each feeding off the other – and growing in ways that were previously unimaginable. Facebook’s impact on our lives continues to amaze us, as the numbers rise meteorically, including people that we never dreamed would be involved with social media.  How many times a day do you hear the word Facebook in conversation and in media?  (More than you hear Google.) And then there’s mobile.  In Techsurvey 7, we...

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Out Of SYNC

June 28, 2011
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Out Of SYNC

The not-so-good news last week out of Detroit was that Ford’s J.D. Power ratings dropped the automaker to 23rd on the list of automotive brands for IQS rankings – Initial Quality Ratings. For Ford – the American automaker that did not take the bailout money – this was a pail of ice water because in 2010, Ford was sitting pretty at #5. What drove this precipitous drop?  It had very little to do with the way the car runs – its handling, safety, stability, braking.  It has everything to...

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The Fall Of RIM

June 21, 2011
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The Fall Of RIM

Imagine the frustration and humiliation of being a market leader in an industry that is exploding – only to lose your dominance and even your respect. Ask Rupert Murdoch how he feels about the demise of MySpace at a time when social media has become a dominant part of the culture. And now Research in Motion finds itself in the same boat in the mobile space.  It wasn’t that long ago that seemingly every business person – including most CEOs – relied on their BlackBerrys, swore by them, and...

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