TIBURON, Calif— June 8, 2009–No surprise, the other shoe dropped in Q1’09. Exiting Q4’08, there was little reason to expect improvement entering the first quarter of ‘09, while unfortunately there were good reasons to suspect it might turn out even worse. For one, while the market in Q4’08 included two poor quarters — with October escaping much of the initial … Read more
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=891CDE10-1A64-67EA-E4C8554479A2B61E
This is moment of great opportunity I’ve been attending and speaking at stereovision conferences for the past year or so. As a matter of fact, I just spent three days in Paris at the Dimension3 Conference and Expo where there was a lot of great information shared by people actually trying to make stereovision work. As it turns out I … Read more
The Wii SD; Factors for Success. There’s no question that the Nintendo Wii SD (the current standard definition Wii) has been a huge success. With sales of over 50 million units, it has almost single-handedly changed the video game industry by drawing people to gaming that probably would not have made the shift with the other offerings on the market. … Read more
http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/pc-gaming-daunted-but-unbowed-by-recession/
Tiburon, Calif. — May 27, 2009 – According to recent market reports, consumer spending has slowed in all markets, but less so in the gaming industry, and in particular less in the PC gaming segment. Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced the market forecast for PC gaming hardware and the … Read more
To beat the unbeatable Kobayashi Maru simulation (designed by Spock) at Star Fleet Academy, the young cadet James T. Kirk reprogrammed the game—he changed the rules because of he refused to accept a no-win scenario. We all want to be Kirk; beat the odds, change the rules, and succeed in the face of despair. Investors long and short, hedge fund … Read more
Let me tell what I did for a few hours today. I opened up a short story I wrote seven years ago. I used Open Office Writer, a free and very powerful, fully compatible, word-processor to do do my edits. Then I went to WordPress and registered for a blog page. Then I installed in my free Firefox web browser … Read more
The biggest untapped opportunity in home entertainment is interactive television. I know I am not the first to say this but there seems to be a belief that iTV has a tech barrier around it, and that we are not “there yet” technologically. I believe there IS a currently achievable form of iTV and think the first logical step, which … Read more
When I asked my grandson what would like to be: a fireman, a doctor, a lawyer, a banker, the president of a company, a writer, or a benchmarker, guess what he said? Fireman get burned and don’t make much money. Doctors have to deal with blood and work all the time, lawyers are crooks, bankers are bigger crooks, presidents of … Read more
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090430.wsmb_tsb_0430/BNStory/specialSmallBusiness/home
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3818261/Are+Netbooks+Fortune+Tied+to+the+Economy.htm
