Over at UK newspaper The Guardian, Google co-founder Sergey Brin shares his views on the future of the Internet , including web freedom and the restrictive practices of Facebook and Apple. It’s a point that most web users would agree with – yet it’s a point that Google seem to be doing themselves with their new approaches to how Google products interact with each other, and what you can and can’t do within Google. Insights Apple facebook googleGoogle’s Short-Term Memory. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation. MORE >>

PRODUCTIVITY. Enter your email address: May 23rd, 2008 in Productivity. Are You a Productive Reader? But are you productively literate? But too often we read important stuff — how-to manuals, business and personal development guides, science and current affairs treatises, and yes, even personal productivity blogs with the same mindset. Godin — the author of quite a few business books — offers these three tips for reading productively: Commit to making at least three changes in your life as a result of your reading. Productivity. MORE >>

Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you are aware that Apple has flooded the market with impressive state-of-the-art and stylish consumer electronics:  iPhone cell phones, iPod MP3 players, iPod Touch hand-held computers, and now the iPad tablet computer. Apple sold 3 million iPads in the first 80 days after launch. On the front-end of the product cycle (from a marketing point-of-view) Apple is stellar at driving demand. At the end of the product cycle, Apple produces products that customers love.  Kevin Gilbert. Tweet This! Digg this! MORE >>

Apple is one of those com panies where everyone seems to have an opinion. Though it may be difficult to deny the success of such an innovative and profitable organization, Apple is losing its way and the very technology and brand image that has made it great, may be its undoing. It’s impossible to speak of Apple’s success without giving credit to the late, great Steve Jobs. This rise was possible with the creation of Apple Mac, iPod, iTune and iPhone, and Jobs was the was captain of the team that delivered one great new technology after another. History Lesson. MORE >>

With Apple holding more cash than most companies will generate in revenue, the question often becomes ‘who will they buy’. But Apple make fewer acquisitions than their competitors, and tend to hold the cash ( they do generate a healthy return through an investment portfolio ), so the question becomes: where does the cash go? Over on Quora , an anonymous user posted very revealing insights on Apples investment activities. The answer: to stay ahead, Apple over-invest in their supply chain. Put simply, new components are not cheap. Thoughts, tips & advice MORE >>