Energy Independence: What Role Will Efficiency Play?
In such a contemptuous political environment, points of agreement are hard to come by. Fortunately, Energy Independence is one of those points. Unfortunately, the path to achieving this independence is...
View ArticleEuropean Auto Capacity Crisis: Earth to GM, Over?
The Capacity Crisis facing the European Automotive manufacturing sector is playing out largely as was described during one of our recent conference calls (see our homepage at www.arapahoresearch.com)....
View ArticleAre Smartphones Set to Get More Expensive?
Without subsidies from carriers, smartphones would be significantly more expensive to the consumer. Carriers have hitherto relied on revenues from usage contracts to offset the subsidies they provide....
View ArticleWhose Business Should Cyber Security Be?
In the last few weeks, several major US banks have been hit by cyber attacks – all seemingly from abroad. South Carolina’s State Department of Revenue also recently admitted a security lapse that...
View ArticleHas Silicon Valley Lost its Sense of Value?
Have technology start-ups become too focused on solving business problems that a) are trivial in nature or b) are limited in application? How has photo-sharing become a higher priority that clean...
View ArticleHas Our (Mobile) Wallet Been Lifted?
Efforts to disrupt the traditional credit card industry – by both companies in the payment processing industry a well as the mobile phone industry – appear to have stalled. Is the movement over? What...
View ArticleWhere Does the Freemium Model Create Value?
Under what circumstances does the freemium model excel(beyond software)? What are the most successful examples of the Freemium model being used with hard goods? Perhaps the model is just for with...
View ArticleAre You Armed For the Cyber War?
The U.S. maintains that International Humanitarian Law and the Law of Armed Conflict apply to cyber-warfare. Is state-sponsored cyber-warfare an Act of War? If not, how is it somehow different?
View ArticleHow Different Will the Next Generation of Cloud Computing Look?
IDC and Gartner estimate that spending on cloud computing will reach $100B by 2016. It is therefore no surprise that companies like Rackspace and Equinix are growing at 20% per year. How should...
View ArticleE-book Vendor Consolidation Kick-Off?
Britain’s Pearson and Germany’s Bertelsmann are planning to merge their publishing units, Penguin and Random House, in order to regain a competitive position with technology groups Amazon and Apple,...
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