businessweek.com - 9/5/2008
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Apple Services: App Stores: Microsoft, Google Follow Apple
electronista.com - 9/5/2008
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electronista.com —
Microsoft on Friday said that its $300 million
marketing campaign will now involve in-store representatives to promote...
the brand, the company's general manager of corporate communications, Tom Pilla, says. Effectively mimicking Apple's Geniuses as w...
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Microsoft to copy Apple Genius strategy
seattle.computerjobs.com - 8/31/2008
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seattle.computerjobs.com —
This Job is eligible for the following work
arrangements :Flex Time Job Title: Senior Product Manager -...
Skymarket This is a unique opportunity and time of rapid change in the mobile industry for a Senior Product Manager in the Mobile Communications ...
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Product Manager
biz.yahoo.com - 9/5/2008
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biz.yahoo.com —
NEW YORK -- As part of its new
$300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp....
plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases. The world's ...
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Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps: ...
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Microsoft, Google, others attempt to follow Apple into App Store market
MacDailyNews —
... that will make it hard to vet bad, glitchy, or inappropriate applications. To weed out bad apples, the Marketplace 'features a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube,' according to the official Android developer blog. But users could still unwittingly download software containing viruses or malicious code damaging a phone, or simply buggy applications. Apple takes weeks to vet applications posted to its store, and rejects many," Kharif reports. Read more in the full article here .
The iPhone Apps Sweepstakes
MacBytes.com —
... , and other companies are thought to have new stores in the works as well (BusinessWeek.com, 9/5/08). "This is only the very beginning," says Shiv Bakhshi, an analyst at researcher ...
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