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		<title>Samsung Becomes Smartphone King Thanks to Android</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Samsung has now overtaken Apple as the leading phone manufacturer.  This leads one to wonder if Apple would be better off deploying its formidable cash reserves to innovation and competition, rather than trying to drown the competition in endless questionable lawsuits based on 1960s science fiction. In contrast to Apple&#8217;s clear desire to shut competition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianpmcleod.com/2011/11/01/samsung-becomes-smartphone-king-thanks-to-android/</link>
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		<title>My Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Music is the universal language of all complex life, potentially even of our very reality. It is not an expression, it is a projection of a mind-state.]]></description>
		<link>http://ianpmcleod.com/2011/10/11/my-music/</link>
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		<title>Customer Loyalty Isn&#8217;t Enough (HBR)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Customer Loyalty Isn't Enough - Grow Your Share of Wallet.  The importance to focus less on ourselves, and more on the competition.  Or more specifically, why our customers focus on the competition. ]]></description>
		<link>http://ianpmcleod.com/2011/10/02/customer-loyalty-isnt-enough-hbr/</link>
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		<title>Samsung: Apple’s Been “Freeriding,” We’re Getting Aggressive &#124; TechCrunch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you think of all the suing and counter-suing occuring in the market place at the moment?  Samsung recently announced (regarding their largest customer, ironically) that Apple’s Been “Freeriding,” We’re Getting aggressive]]></description>
		<link>http://ianpmcleod.com/2011/09/24/samsung-apple%e2%80%99s-been-%e2%80%9cfreeriding%e2%80%9d-we%e2%80%99re-getting-aggressive-techcrunch/</link>
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		<title>Australians working longer harder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More sobering news just in - Australians working beyond 65 because they have no money for retirement &#124; News.com.au.

This is an all too common scenario and no matter how often this is repeated by government campaigns and financial planners, this advice sadly often goes unheard.

What are your thoughts?]]></description>
		<link>http://ianpmcleod.com/2011/09/20/australians-working-longer-harder/</link>
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		<title>Telco Tablet Crash!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are Telcos ignoring the threat of commoditisation?

I have argued for some time that this is the case and telcos risk becoming just another dumb pipe and as we know commoditisation spells the death of profits.  And low and behold, Telstra's profitability has plummeted in recent times, admittedly as part of a deliberate strategy but one none-the-less bought about by these dreaded competitive forces.]]></description>
		<link>http://ianpmcleod.com/2011/09/14/telcos-ignoring-tablet-commandments-full-duplex-blogs-zdnet-australia/</link>
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		<title>Why I support an Australian Republic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I support a minimalist republic, the less change the better.  Almost no change, would be ideal.  What does this mean?  It means I love Australia and embrace its heritage, good and bad, acknowledge our faults, and see a bright future.  I am grateful for the British aristocracy and the Westminster system endowed upon us.]]></description>
		<link>http://ianpmcleod.com/2011/07/17/australian_republic/</link>
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		<title>WTO Warns Australia that We are Becoming Fat and Lazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Martin, a respected commentator for the Fairfax Sydney Morning Herald and The Age today had the courage to challenge what is increasingly appearing to be a blind religion in Australia&#8217;s national psyche and called out some very real risks to our national economy. The World Trade Organisation and an increasingly loud chorus of commentators [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianpmcleod.com/2011/04/13/wto-warns-australia-that-we-are-becoming-fat-and-lazy/</link>
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		<title>Nokia stalls painful job cut talks to end of April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems I was right, never grow complacent, never take your market position for granted! http://www.itnews.com.au/News/252196,nokia-stalls-painful-job-cut-talks-to-end-of-april.aspx Posted from WordPress for Android PHP Freelancer]]></description>
		<link>http://ianpmcleod.com/2011/03/24/nokia-stalls-painful-job-cut-talks-to-end-of-april/</link>
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		<title>Part Three &#8211; How to Build Success out of Commoditisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beware The Vortex of Doom! Competition is heating up, your suppliers exerting upward pressure, your customers are exerting downward pressure, your products and strategies are being imitated. Sooner or later no matter how successful your product based business is, you will hit a wall unless you are very lucky. So how did Apple beat this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianpmcleod.com/2011/03/22/part-three-how-to-build-success-out-of-commoditisation/</link>
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