I am so very pleased that the FCC has finally approved the XM and Sirius merger. I really hope the market reacts well to the official news next week and hope to see Sirius back in the $4-$5 range very soon, but I have no idea what Monday will bring. Thursday and Friday were down days for Sirius but I think that was just profit taking. It was on larger then normal volume and looks like some funds exited their…
My rant from Yesterday made me think about the future of communications. Currently, we have e-mail, SMS and IM as the three dominate forms of non-spoken electronic communication. I poked around the Net and landed on a press release from Gartner about the mobile messaging market. The numbers blew me away. They estimate mobile messages will exceed 2 trillion messages in 2008. This is close to a 20% increase from 2007 levels. I did not find estimates, from sources I…
I was looking at our Spam filter stats, and it is awe-inspiring at how much junk we get each day. I genuinely believe we can blame the Spam problem on the creators of telemarketing and direct mail as I see these invasive techniques are the grandparents of the modern day spammer. Will the increasing levels of Spam cause a decline in e-mail usage as people opt for other methods of communication that are less prone to Spam or will the…
You drag yourself into your office and sit down for what will be a fun filled and exciting day of pure productivity because you have a “plan”. Ya right – can you say “wishful thinking”, FYI – the rest of the world does not give a darn about your plan or your desire to increase your productivity. Enter stage left, Daily Planning or the “daily reality check”, as I like to call it. Let us start at the beginning for a…