| Marketing Myopia - The Converging World
It spoke about how firms lost hold of markets because they were product-focused rather than customer-focused. The paper can be found at the Harvard Business Online site if readers want to download the original article. To quote: 'The railroads did not stop growing because the need for passenger and freight transportation declined. That grew. The railroads are in trouble today not so much because that need was filled by others (cars, trucks, airplanes, and even telephones), but because it was not filled by the railroads themselves. They let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transportation business. The reason they defined their industry incorrectly was that they were railroad oriented instead of transportation oriented; they were product oriented instead of customer oriented.' Levitt's paper and the same principles still hold great relevance for present day businesses.
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Special call-ins included U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson who generously auctioned a lunch date with himself. Francoeur sold seats to a private lunch for $1,000 per couple. The lunch will take place at Maggiano's and include Jeff and other Atlanta Braves guests. U.S. Air Force Maj. David Hyre sold over 50 American flags flown during military missions in Iraq for $1,000 each. Permalink | | 8/28: South Park, Scott Baio renewed By Rodney Ho | Tuesday, August 28, 2007, 08:21 AM The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Comedy Central has extended "South Park" at least through 2011, which would make it an impressive 15-year run. They are also launching a South Park Web site The deal is worth $75 million.
ULM expects largest crowd for Grambling
For Grambling fans who visit the ULM campus, the grassy area behind Heard Tennis Stadium across the street from Malone Stadium has been designated as the vistors tailgating spot.
I think it will be a great atmosphere, Staub said. Were looking forward to it. .
Italian pay-TV revenues grow to E2bn
UK telco BT has pulled further ahead in the broadband market as it met forecasts with a 3 per cent increase in first-quarter core earnings and revenues. The company said its BT Retail unit accounted for 38 per cent of net DSL broadband additions during the quarter with 459,000 new broadband customers. Meanwhile BT confirmed it was considering a Fibre to the curb network that cold deliver 50Mb/s. This compares with the existing upper limit of 8mbps that is available from most telecoms companies and the 24Mb/s that will be available from BTs new ADSL2+ network. A faster network is unlikely to be available beyond business centres, given the high capital cost.
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Eutelsat net quadruples Satellite operator Eutelsat Communications has reported net profit quadrupled to E170m in its year to June from E40.2m previously, lifted by the non-recurrence of restructuring charges and lower financial costs.
Two arrested, charged in Oakland man's murder
Last week, Crowder was arrested and booked in the Berkeley Jail, with bail set at $50,000, on suspicion of making death threats against another man on a Berkeley basketball court. Police said he told the man that the last time someone messed with him that man ended up dead. He then alluded to the Drummond case, Kusmiss said. "During the police interview, Crowder identified Beaudreaux as the shooter," she said. "That was corroborated by witness accounts." Beaudreaux was arrested Friday in San Pablo. Relatives of Drummond were not immediately available to comment Wednesday. After emigrating from Jamaica, Drummond grew up in Upland in San Bernardino County. He came to the Bay Area in 2003 and had been working for UPS at the Oakland airport at the time of his death.
AMD, NVIDIA duel in mobile graphics; 3D iPhone still distant
We're barely into this year's Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain, and already the dueling press releases are flying. Fresh off the wire are two long-awaited and closely matched mobile graphics products from NVIDIA and AMD, both of which will bring some measure of desktop-caliber graphics to handheld devices. First up is STMicro's announcement of the first fruits of its alliance with AMD (announced at last year's MWC): the 65nm Nomadik STn8820 mobile application processor. STMicro's new chip combines the same mobile graphics core used in AMD's Imageon line with an ARM11 CPU core, and it tacks on a ton of other functionality, some of which I'll mention in a moment. Nomadik's graphics core is based on the same unified shader architecture (USA) that powers the Xbox 360, so Nomadik supports OpenGL ES 2.0, D3D, and the same tools and APIs that work with Imageon.
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Click to enlarge Fujifilm FinePix F30 $349 /// This 6.3-megapixel digicam was born to shoot in the dark, with one of the most light-sensitive sensors for its size (up to ISO 3200) and a flash that gauges the foreground and background, to avoid washing out subjects. fujifilmusa.com
Click to enlarge Canon DC40 $900 /// Whether it's the 10x zoom lens or the 4.3-megapixel CCD sensor, this DVD camcorder has the crisp image quality we've come to expect from Canon. It shoots about 60 minutes per disc in standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) formats. canonusa.com
Click to enlarge Olympus FE-190 $200 /// The FE-190's best feature is that it doesn't look, feel or shoot like a $200 camera. The 6-megapixel ultracompact takes great photos, is 0.7 in. thick, and has a large 2.5-in. LCD screen and image stabilization.
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