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Dell’s Black Friday Deals–Who Wants Hot-out-of-the-Box?
Lines are Lame. Shop From Home. So says the marketing from Dell, which will be offering Black Friday deals on laptops, desktops, monitors and other products. It will be interesting to see how many people choose laptops with Dell NetReady …
» Read Full ArticlePCs Don’t Have to Be Low-Margin
PCs don’t have to be low-margin products. But you’d never even consider that notion if you accepted the conventional wisdom that’s being touted in so much of the coverage of Hewlett-Packard’s recent decision to keep its PC division. “PCs carry …
» Read Full ArticleTalking Cloud Services
Stop the presses– Apple’s iPhone 4S is breaking sales records. The Wall Street Journal reported today that customers have snatched up more than four million iPhones in the first three days on the market. While it shouldn’t surprise anyone at …
» Read Full ArticleToday’s Kindle Announcements by Amazon: Device as a Service
Today’s announcements by Amazon strongly reaffirmed a powerful strategic path that the Kindle’s been blazing for a while: the tight integration of device, content and connectivity. We strongly echo how Jeff Bezos summarized the strategy: “We don’t think of the Kindle …
» Read Full ArticleWhy Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet Makes Good Economic Sense
(And How Other Device Manufacturers Can Turn Connected Devices Into Connected Customers) The news media and twittersphere are lighting up in anticipation of the rumored, impending announcement of Amazon’s new tablet offering. “Kindle Fire” is the name that’s making the …
» Read Full ArticleGigaOM Guest Article: Why computing isn’t going away, just hiding in the clouds
Macheen was invited to contribute a guest article on GigaOM. Here’s the introduction to get you going: Lately, we’ve read a lot about the end of the computer age. In reality, it isn’t over. The computer is simply hiding in …
» Read Full ArticleOur Take on the Motorola Mobility Acquisition by Google
It is too soon to say for sure, but this is clearly another indication that the traditional industry lines between hardware, software and services are rapidly blurring. It is probably safe to say Google’s decision to spend $12.5 billion on …
» Read Full ArticleWhy the Cloud is the Lifeline for Tablet Makers
Let’s face it, more of the value of tablets and laptops comes from outside the box, rather than inside. Consumers and business users are reaching to the cloud for their content, applications and services. Whether it’s a public cloud for …
» Read Full ArticleDell NetReady Now Available in the US
As we return from Independence Day weekend, here at Macheen we continue to celebrate a new type of American independence: freedom from long-term commitments for mobile broadband Internet access. Dell NetReady mobile broadband service, powered by Macheen, is now available …
» Read Full ArticleMacheen on the National Stage
I’ve had the pleasure to meet with Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer (US CTO). He discovered Macheen through an article in the New York Times, and we’ve had several conversations since about the potential impact our approach could …
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