Tag Archives: Motorola

Nexus One, Google TV, and Honeycomb tablets have all been massive failures, just as bad, if not worse, than Microsoft’s Zune and Surface. — [LINK]

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

“Google is now copying something even more insidious: the company appears to be turning into a corporation run by a populist vote of its ignorant, idealistic fans. Call it the Tea Party Company.” More. More. More. More. More. More.

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Don’t buy the Motorola Xoom: It is clunky. – [REVIEW]

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

“Don’t buy the Xoom unless you really, really don’t like Apple products.” More here.

Posted in Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged Apple IPad, computers, computing, Information Technology, iPad, Motorola, Motorola Xoom, tablet computers, tablets, Xoom | Leave a comment

This guy invented the cell phone. Here’s how. – [VIDEO]

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

Motorola’s Martin Cooper is the developer of the 1st cell phone:

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Using prediction markets to selecting the best ideas as opposed to judging accuracy of predictions on measurable outcomes?

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

I don’t get it, but you can always go there and scan that illogical Motorola EPM story.

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Cases, Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice) | Tagged corporate forecasting, corporate prediction markets, enterprise prediction markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), internal prediction markets, Motorola, prediction markets, private prediction markets | 5 Comments

Google’s Bo Cowgill takes a swipe at the prediction market software vendors.

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitwewitz – 2008-01-06 – Bo Cowgill: [...] Trade-by-trade data can reveal characteristics of specific working … Continue reading →

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Big firms experimenting with internal prediction markets as IAM

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

— Consensus Point: – General Electric – Best Buy – Motorola – Qualcomm – Siemens – Nokia NewsFutures: – Arcelor – Mittal – Corning – Dentsu – IHG – Lilly – MasterFoods – Pfizer – Siemens – Thomson – Yahoo! … Continue reading →

Posted in Cases, Consulting | Tagged Abbott, Arcelor, Best Buy, Chiron, Corning, General Electric, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Novartis, Pfizer, Qualcomm, Siemens, Thomson, Yahoo! | Leave a comment