Category: marketing

14 August 2008

I Already Opened At My Own Risk, Thanks

Filed under: Services, marketing, nokia - 14 Aug 2008

Got this amusing email from the folks behind openatownrisk.com:
I am writing from Nokia HQ with news: we have defeated corporate censorship! The most insane video ever produced is now online. If you visit www.openatownrisk.com you can view the …

9 August 2008

I Broke The Seals on openatownrisk.com!

Filed under: marketing, nokia, software - 09 Aug 2008

After a bit of mucking about with the content in “The Box” on Download! on my Nokia N95 and interacting with the proper version of …

14 July 2008

How To Pitch To PhoneBoy in 2008

Filed under: marketing, people - 14 Jul 2008

PR is not for sissies. Never has been, never will be. Good PR, at least, has always been around building relationships. While it used to be a PR person only had to get in with …

7 July 2008

Is It Real, Or A Marketing Ploy?

Filed under: marketing, nokia - 07 Jul 2008

If you’ve been following the Nokia-related blogosphere, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the site openatownrisk.com. Supposedly, something big was to be published …

8 January 2008

Unified Communications Is A Pipe Dream

Filed under: connectivity, marketing, telecom, voip - 08 Jan 2008

Bog RollYou know, I hear this term Unified Communications all the time. It recently came up as I saw the press release of Jajah and CallWave partnering up to “make global communications …

27 December 2007

Heroes and Sprint: Product Placement Gone Wrong

Filed under: marketing, mobile network operators, telecom - 27 Dec 2007

SprintI was catching up on my viewing of Heroes this evening when I noticed a rather obvious product placement for Sprint. The product placement doesn’t bother me so much, it’s the …

21 November 2007

Clever Web Ads By Apple

Filed under: mac, marketing, windows - 21 Nov 2007

Clever web marketing by Apple:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRAUlK8_2VE[/video]

Based on this ad:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRflNfaBPY[/video]

Via TechCrunch

23 October 2007

An Evening with S60, Complete With PhoneBoy!

Filed under: marketing, nokia - 23 Oct 2007

Evening With S60While I don’t live anywhere near San Francisco anymore, I am in the Bay Area to see my boss in Mountain View. And, of course, to go to the Evening With …

27 April 2007

It’s All In The Name

Filed under: marketing, nokia - 27 Apr 2007

I was discussing mobile phones with my wife today, mostly because I got the quote back from the Nokia repair facility for my wife’s broken Nokia 6102: $115 flat rate to fix the phone. Considering I can buy a replacement …

24 April 2007

Frucall goes SMS

Filed under: marketing - 24 Apr 2007

Frucall, the service that allows you to call in, type in the barcode # into your mobile handset, and get more information about it including comparisons of online shops that might have it for less, is now making their …

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