UbiKann http://www.ubikann.com The ability to be everywhere Sat, 18 May 2013 19:24:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Kindle sales are up the day after Apple’s Mini launch http://www.ubikann.com/2012/10/28/kindle-sales-are-up-the-day-after-apples-mini-launch/ http://www.ubikann.com/2012/10/28/kindle-sales-are-up-the-day-after-apples-mini-launch/#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:58:09 +0000 John Garner http://www.ubikann.com/?p=1710 Most people expected that the launch of Apple’s mini thingy would put Amazon in a really difficult position. However it seems on the contrary Amazon sales are up and went up soon after the announcement from Apple. Could that be people that realised that the Amazon offer was a) from a hardware point of view [...]

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]]> http://www.ubikann.com/2012/10/26/a-heros-video/feed/ 0 Felix Baumgartner’s record jump http://www.ubikann.com/2012/10/15/felix-baumgartners-record-jump/ http://www.ubikann.com/2012/10/15/felix-baumgartners-record-jump/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:13:12 +0000 John Garner http://www.ubikann.com/?p=1375 I came across this my pure chance from an article on Mashable linking to the live video feed and it was just amazing. The courage you need to do what Baumgartner did is astonishing, just watching it, in pretty poor quality video as some points was however, riveting…

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]]> http://www.ubikann.com/2012/10/15/felix-baumgartners-record-jump/feed/ 0 Social Media: little to no effect on purchasing behaviour http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/29/social-media-little-to-no-effect-on-purchasing-behaviour/ http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/29/social-media-little-to-no-effect-on-purchasing-behaviour/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:01:02 +0000 John Garner http://www.ubikann.com/?p=1349 A report from Forrester Research and GSI Commerce illustrates the fact that social media has little to no effect on purchasing power. I’ve often thought this was the case and that people were far more inclined like myself to follow results from search engines and newsletters I get especially reghardware for example, but that might [...]

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]]> http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/29/social-media-little-to-no-effect-on-purchasing-behaviour/feed/ 0 Android now has the most free Apps http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/28/android-now-has-the-most-free-apps/ http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/28/android-now-has-the-most-free-apps/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:01:58 +0000 John Garner http://www.ubikann.com/?p=1335 A report that you can find over at Distimo (you need to register to get it) shows that there are now more free apps for Android than there are for any other platform as you can see below in the chart: So the journalists and bloggers that just can’t spend enough money at Apple were [...]

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]]> http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/18/lego-guys-gone-wild/feed/ 1 Drop in Flash used on top websites http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/13/drop-in-flash-used-on-top-websites/ http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/13/drop-in-flash-used-on-top-websites/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:00:59 +0000 John Garner http://www.ubikann.com/?p=1312 Thanks to Steve Souders (who works for Google), significant data shows that among the top 17 000 websites there was a 2 percent drop in Flash usage, in just over 4 months. You may consider that to be a small drop. But 2 points over such a short period of time is actually significant especially [...]

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]]> http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/12/apple-dominating-tablets-for-now/feed/ 0 Would you be honest? http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/08/would-you-be-honest/ http://www.ubikann.com/2011/04/08/would-you-be-honest/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:38:22 +0000 John Garner http://www.ubikann.com/?p=1299 Nice little experiment from Honest Tea. If you came across a store where you were expected to be honest, and pay a dollar a bottle, would it work in your town or country?

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