Archives for 2010

Earlier this year, Google landed a “landmark” deal with Global Cricket Ventures, the licensing partner to the Indian Premier League (IPL), which would give them ...


The Market has determined it

Those are the five words I've been hearing alot these past two weeks as I attend back to back meetings with marketing executives and CEOs ...


[caption id="attachment_2623" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="U2 Connect Location still on Digicel's website"][/caption] It was the second time I was hearing it in as many weeks. The first ...


What is Kingston Beta?

Get the 411 on the premier community for Jamaican web entrepreneurs, start-ups and enthusiasts from the lady in charge. Ingrid Riley, founder of Kingston Beta, ...


The Information Communication and Technology (ICT) sector is another of the priority industries within Jamaica's National Export Strategy (NES) through which the country can benefit ...


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With 60 people in attendance at the Spanish Court Hotel, smack in the middle of Kingston’s Business District, Kingston Beta – the Caribbean’s premier technology ...


Google is now shipping more than 60,000 Android devices per day and the number has more than doubled over the last quarter, Google chief executive ...


Do you still need a reason to come up with a social media strategy? New data shows an important shift in web traffic patterns. Remember last ...


The Jamaica Government will soon insist that persons who purchase cellular phones and sim cards provide identification in order to reduce the possibility of such ...


LIME Jamaica incurred a $351-million net loss for the three months to December 31, 2009 compared to a $33-million net profit in the comparative quarter ...


So like the Jamaica Observer, the Jamaica Gleaner has pretty much tweaked a premium Wordpress template to relaunch a new look website that's more social ...


Facebook hits 100 million mobile users - puts chat on all IM clients  11.02.2010 Social-networking player Facebook is now being used by more than 100 ...


I have always been an advocate of rich multimedia applications, motion graphics, and video ever since I started to develop for the Internet in 1995. ...


[caption id="attachment_2551" align="alignleft" width="70" caption="Mark Allan, Ceo of One Studio "][/caption] I welcome a long time friend and colleague Mark Allan, who was a partner in ...


[caption id="attachment_2545" align="aligncenter" width="286" caption="www.KingstonBeta.com"][/caption] Kingston Beta is the event that is staged by ConnectiMass the Caribbean Digital Marketing Agency that I run and this blog. ...


[caption id="attachment_2542" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="CaribbeanChick.com in 2010"][/caption] CaribbeanChick.com launched in October 2007 and positioned itself as an online magazine “for every woman.” The site stated that ...


[caption id="attachment_2538" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Blogoria in 2010"][/caption] Blogoria.com, launched by a New York-based Jamaican tech entrepreneur could have been easily labelled the facebook for bloggers. It ...


To Blog or Not to Blog

You can find extensive listings of Caribbean Blogs on top5jamaica.com. You can find a growing list of blogs on CUblogz.com even more so that Cariblogger.com ...


British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless plc (C&W) set out the final terms of its demerger on Tuesday, including a US$500 million bond offer. C&W ...


This is what I've been seeing for the past two days. I hope they're just switching servers or something and didn't fall into the dotcome ...


Jamaica's not used to this style of advertising-Confrontational, use of a competitor's colours and clear references. It's more, well, American. In Jamaica we've grown used ...


Mobile messaging revenues worldwide are expected to grow to $233 billion in 2014, up from about $150 billion in 2009, according to a new forecast ...


It's nice to know that there are services that can let you know if someone is plaigarising your articles, your content. I happened to have ...


Less than two weeks ago, Jamaica Tourist Board( JTB) announced that it'll be paying attention to more social media. Duh, they are about a year ...