Is Reading On Steve’s Mind?

On Monday, Apple (NASAQ:AAPL) reported a strong fourth quarter driven by strong Mac and iPhone sales that topped estimates. In my most recent post on Apple, I wondered out loud about what is on Steve Jobs’s mind and if he would come with an innovative product that would encourage people to read more. There are

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Building Your Brand Experience for Hard Times (Part 3)

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand, a brand and business strategy consultancy. Build trust with customers through transparency. Just after the financial crisis, research conducted by OTO Research shows that 83% of consumers do not trust the brands they use. Everyone is talking about building brand trust during a recession,

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EJ1, EJ2 Now On iPhone

If you read books on the iPhone or another device, you can now download Entrepreneur Journeys (Volume One) and Entrepreneur Journeys (Volume Two): Bootstrapping, Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction from Smashwords, and read on Stanza and other e-book readers. Btw, Stanza was acquired by Amazon this week, adding more momentum to e-book adoption. Enjoy!

Forbes Column 08: Peeking Inside the iPhone

My new Forbes column, Peeking Inside the iPhone is out. Have a look.

3G iPhone’s Top 5 Component Beneficiaries

The 3G iPhone is out. Besides Apple, who else is a beneficiary of this major PR event? Here, we look at the top five component vendors: Infineon, Triquint, Samsung, Broadcom and Interdigital.

Infineon: Company Overview

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author We have, over the past year, presented detailed valuation theses for various mobile chipset vendors namely Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, InterDigital, Marvell and STMicroelectronics. This matrix will not be complete without Infineon – the German Chipmaker.

Design in the 21st Century: A Coffee with Barry Katz (Part 8)

SM: To me 20th Century art looks like the ‘anti-beauty’. Is that reasonable? Today I look at the products people are lapping up and they are beautiful objects. Are we returning to appreciating beauty? BK: I am not going to disagree with you completely, although I will refrain a bit.

3G iPhone and Qualcomm

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author The 3G iPhone rumors are getting more frequent by the day. We all know it will hit the market. It is just a question of when. I have, in the past, looked at the likely component vendors for the impending iPhone including Infineon and InterDigital. As requested by one of

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