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Aftershocks: Wal-Mart, AC/DC and Digital Distribution Print E-mail
Bidness
Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Wednesday, 04 June 2008
Here at Dycern World HQ, Research and Development Division, we pride ourselves on our catholic tastes. We track news and trends that might appear, at first glance, to wander far afield of personal consumer electronic concerns. But it is here that we often find stories that turn out to be the most telling indicators. (Our prescience is enhanced, we must concede, by the platoon of genetically modified, precognitive rhesus monkeys we keep in Lab B.)

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Purchasing Eyeballs: Microsoft's Rebate Program Print E-mail
Bidness
Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Experience is a stern taskmaster, and over the years I have learned from my many mistakes. There are, in particular, three things I simply do not do anymore. I don't use ammonium nitrate as an oxidizing agent, I don't pay attention to Sports Illustrated's preseason baseball picks, and I don't bet against Bill Gates.
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Facebook: Instinct and a Mild Obsession Print E-mail
Bidness
Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Thursday, 08 May 2008

In my line of work, you have to trust your instincts. I've been out of the espionage game for a while now, but back during the Cold War, the only way to navigate a world of moles, agents and double agents was to go with your gut. To ignore your instincts was to risk a bullet to the abdomen. On the rain-soaked, midnight streets of Prague. As the voluptuous Russian assassin coldly lets down her hair and lights a cigarette…

 

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Ticketmaster: Good Friends Are Easy To Buy Print E-mail
Bidness
Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Friday, 02 May 2008
It's no secret that the music business is lousy with 3,000 species of middlemen -- people whose jobs involve skimming the cash flow that runs between artists and consumers. This is a natural function of many kinds of business, I concede, but in the case of music industry middlemen, the situation really is terminal.

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