HP + Autonomy is Unlikely
There was an active Enterprise Irregulars discussion on HP the last couple of days, which then caused me consider how HP could pull it off. I don’t see how HP can do the deal for $10b in cash when that is all the cash they have and it’s looking like their debt is going to [...]
Read My Lips: We Are Not Walking Away from WebOS
Today comes news leaked from an internal HP all hands meeting that the company is not abandoning WebOS, 15 months after acquiring it for $1.2 billion. This is how we get all our news about HP these days, leaked memos and meeting soundbites. Watch for two main arguments being presented, the first by the tech [...]
Lessons in Marketing – HP TouchPad
Today comes news about disappointing HP TouchPad sales numbers and I am not surprised given the weak marketing they have exhibited for this product. Like RIM’s failed PlayBook the HP devices suffers from a marketing initiative that fails to connect with what consumers want in a tablet. HP and RIM both seem to believe that [...]
Google Going All In on Mobile
The tech media, and general media as well, is all a flutter about Google acquiring Motorola Mobility (note that this is one part of Motorola, the other being their Solutions group which is 2x the size of Mobility in terms of revenue). Henry Blodgett thinks it will end as a disaster for Google and my good [...]
HTML5 – A Wonder Drug
I was reading up on some of the commentary surrounding Amazon’s release of an HTML5 reader, one of the best comes from Constellation’s Charles Brett: Amazon’s announcement of its Kindle Cloud Reader, based around HTML 5, is a wonder of irony. Apple has successfully been taking 30% of purchases made via anything bought through an [...]
Google Voice Gets a Global Spam Filter
I seem to have missed the news last month that Google added a global spam filter to Google Voice but thanks to the well placed reminders in the app I discovered it today. GVoice has had a spam capability for some time now and the way it works is really straightforward… you can mark any [...]
The End of the Beginning
Get Satisfaction raises $10m in funding from InterWest Partners and existing investors.
SaaS 101: 15 Day Trials Suck
If you are starting a SaaS business and will offer a trial period for your application, be aware that the length of your trial period has real consequences that go beyond trial-to-paid conversation rates. Here’s the issue, every trial in your account database will have 3 states: Created in prior calendar month, converted in current [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. I am the VP of Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction and I write about a range of topics that interest me, including public policy, technology, entrepreneurship, finance, and global issues.
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