The Comunicano Daily for Monday September 1, 2014

    The Comunicano Daily      I've been remiss in publishing so over the past few days I've started to write again. Onmy blog, in the new LinkedIn Pulse (have you noticed how much LinkedIn has gotten into content?) and now again, here in the Comunicano Daily. This month will go down as one of the most … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Tuesday May 27, 2014

        The Comunicano Daily       Imagine if Qualcomm or Intel bought out T-Mobile in the USA? That's potentially what's going on in Taiwan where Foxconn is looking to broaden their business interests and vertically consolidate their holdings by putting a stake into a Taiwanese mobile operator. Given their ties to companies … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Tuesday May 20, 2014

    The Comunicano Daily       There's all kinds of news coming out in all sorts of sectors as the USA warms up for a three day Memorial Day Weekend the our cousins in the UK do the same with a Bank Holiday this weekend. Clearly Apple is in the middle of a make over … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Monday February 3, 2014

    The Comunicano Daily       Last week's IT Expo was exciting to attend. Crowds were up, the number of exhibitors were up and even the panels seemed to have more speakers. This bodes well for the next couple of TMC events including WebRTC World and this August's Hot event IT Expo-Fall Summer … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Tuesday January 28th, 2014

        The Comunicano Daily       Hello from Miami (Beach) and the 2014 edition of the winter version of iT Expo staged so well by the good folks at TMC. Clients are here, friends are here and everything but the sun is here, as an overcast Miami isn't what was expected. But … Read more

Commentary on A Month Without iOS

VC, angel, blogger Brad Feld wrote a very passionate post about his plan to move for a month from iOS to Android on his blog this past week. A day or so later VentureBeat picked up the post and reposted it, and the Twittersphere picked up on it adding greater social amplification. Feld's post has … Read more

Positioning-Apple is A Products Company, Google Is A Service

Image via CrunchBase At Comunicano, our master of the message, Bill Ryan hammers on regularly about why positioning is so important. He should know. Back in 90s his agency, NRW was brought in by the late Steve Jobs to help with the turnaround of Apple. Now, some 16 years later, you can still see the … Read more

Samsung Plays the Grey Game to Attack Parallel Imports

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (Photo credit: Janitors) There has been some recent debate about Samsung and their approach to regionally locking handsets, starting with the Galaxy Note3. It’s a very interesting situation, and one that will impact grey marketers and their customers more than those who sell and buy in market. But the real story is not the … Read more

Google just pulled an Apple with Chromecast

Google just pulled an Apple out of the bag in the OTT (over the top) space. And it's called Chromecast, a small USB device that connects a variety of devices to any HD monitor or TV set. What that means is you can now likely use your Android phone or tablet and make the monitor an … Read more