In yet another shutdown of DRM servers, following on the heels of Yahoo and MSN Music,Wal-Mart is also shutting down their DRM servers casting millions of dollars in media locked into one computer, unless you can copy it over to disk.
Yahoo Decision Could Come Today
Still jonesin’ from last Friday’s Microsoft/Yahoo buzz hysteria, there are reports that Yahoo could end this Friday with a major announcement, giving us all something to talk about over the weekend. Whether that happens or not, it’s clear that Yahoo doesn’t have much more time to make a decision.
The Google Analytics Decision
Most of you know that my favorite price for things is "free." (I’ve even put together the Skinflint Internet Marketing Guides for those that want to spend nothing for their campaigns.)
Enterprise Decision Management and Managing Costs
While the primary focus of applying EDM to customer service should not be cost containment or reduction, there is still a role for EDM in managing costs. For instance:
Facebook Users Fight (And Beat) Bank’s Decision
Here’s a brilliant financial guideline by which most people live: don’t spend more money than you have. But when a UK bank tried to enforce that guideline by charging interest on overdrafts, a big, Facebook-style fuss erupted. An interesting resolution then occurred: the Facebook users won.
SCO Thwarted In Unix Decision
A federal judge ruled the copyrights to the Unix operating system belong to Novell, not SCO, after years of aggressive litigation by SCO.
Working For Google “Worst Decision”?
It’s a well-known fact that Google frequently lets its employees do their own thing on company time. Many of those employees then come up with brilliant ideas, but the search engine giant – wealthy as it is – doesn’t have money to pursue them all. In the long term, do those employees go on to get rich, or get screwed?
Investing in PPC Marketing or SEO – a Company Decision
As click costs rise, many companies who are already investing in active pay per click marketing campaigns are looking toward hiring a search engine optimization company to supplement their marketing portfolio in order to increase their exposure and reduce their advertising spend.
Microsoft BPM adds Decision Management
Some of you will no doubt have seen today’s announcement of a Business Process Alliance by Microsoft (their press release is here). Fair Isaac is one of the 10 companies in this alliance (see the Fair Isaac press release here). Interestingly a couple of BPM vendors are also in the 10, including one of Fair Isaac’s partners (Metastorm).
Personally I think this is interesting for several reasons:
Google To Appeal Copiepresse Decision
A Belgian court reaffirmed an earlier judgment against Google this week demanding Google remove Copiepress-represented news publication material from Google.be and Google News. Google issued a statement expressing "disappointment" and a plan to appeal the verdict.