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While the news about Apple suing Mac hardware clone maker Psystar is still ripe, here comes another company wanting to make some cash on the same grounds. Another firm, by the name of Open Tech, is now planning to sell hardware that apparently supports all the major Operating Systems including Windows XP, Ubuntu (Linux Distro), Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard. Although the first 3 Operating Systems are open to be run on any type of PC, no matter what brand or make it is, Apple’s license forbids the installation of Mac OS X on any hardware other than Apple’s own.

 
Recently, during one of Apple’s biggest events, the WWDC ‘08, Apple’s Steve Jobs announced that the .Mac (dot Mac) suite of online service will be re-branded as MobileMe. Today, Apple has updated the .Mac status page with the date when the transition from .Mac to MobileMe will be initiated.
 
 

 
 
.Mac is a collection of web services [...]

There are various ways to access twitter. But the most common way people access their tweets is through mobile. One can really get pissed of replying to their friends via SMS again and again. Therefore a service that could convert voice to text and then post it on twitter would be a huge hit. Twitsay, Twittergram and others have realized this and grabbed the opportunity. And now it’s an Irish Entrepreneur, Pat Phelan who has joined the league. He launched a beta service called TwitterFone.

In the picture Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation was giving a presentation on the projection screen through his laptop. But the laptop seems to belong to some other Steve – Steve Jobs from Apple.

Technological Innovation and Leadership – The Guide to Successful Innovations (The 7th of a Many Part Series)
 
 
 
 
The previous post dealt with:
 
 
 
1)      Customization
 
2)      Convenience
 
3)      Participation
 
 
 
 
 
Today I am going to try and deal with how innovative products need to deal with:
 
 
 
4)      Anticipation
 
5)      Compatibility
 
 
 
 
 
Just to refresh your mind, the three meta generic benefits are Freedom of Choice, Conservation [...]

In the previous 2 parts we briefly touched upon branding innovation and how that is essential to the longevity and revenue capitalization capability of an innovation. We also touched upon the dangers of over branding innovation. Let’s now get back to the product development aspect and try and dwell further into the World of Generic Benefits.
 
 
In today’s post I [...]