A Change Has Got To Come by Angela Flynn 12/08 angelaflynn80@msn.com I recently read Blue Windows by Barbara Wilson. Barbara was raised as a Christian Scientist. Christian Scientists are admonished to look out of only rose-colored windows because evil and sickness do not exist. Everything is perfection. Her mother ended up getting breast cancer and […]
Libya: The Ramadan Special
Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, begins in all parts of the Islamic world. Depending on where you are located, it could have either started, will start tomorrow or even Tuesday in some areas. The Libyan blogosphere is being populated by Ramadan posts and while most of them are of a congratulatory nature such […]
Nicaragua : A New Telecom Monopoly
Just last week Carlos Slim, the wealthiest man alive, bought the biggest suscription TV provider in Nicaragua. That company, ESTESA, was already a de facto monopoly in its market, and now is part of the telecom empire Slim has built in Nicaragua. At this moment, Slim owns ENITEL, with the brands CLARO (Mobile phone), Turbonett (Wireless internet access), AMNET (broadband […]
Mobile broadcasting may be the next big thing in entertainment
If this were 2010, we wouldn’t bother to catch episodes of Desperate Housewives and Indian Idol 2 on our television sets. We’d be watching the video clippings on our mobile phones. We’d neither be whining about the quality of the clippings nor would we be shelling out too much to download them. Crystal gazing is […]
Brazil: Bloggers United Against WordPress Ban
by Paula Góes The Brazilian blogosphere has not quite yet recovered from its last fright and there is already another threat on the way: a blanket ban on blogs hosted on WordPress.com after a judicial court passed an order to close down a specific blog. Gabriela Zabo [pt] explains why: O motivo é uma decisão judicial expedida em março, que […]
Business Marketing Tips: Understanding the Key Differences between Goods and Services as Products
A product may be a physical "good" or a "service" or a blend of both. You need to understand this view very thoroughly. It’s easy to slip into a limited, physical-product point of view. We want to think of a product in terms of the needs it satisfies. If a firm’s objective is to satisfy […]