Figure 1: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Trends, styles, customs, and governments come and go. Few things remain constant. Eating, drinking, housing, Maslow-type things remain constant. But the next two levels up are the ones that interest me, and projecting a bit, I think you do too. It is in the status and belonging levels that we find the association of … Read more
http://adage.com/article?article_id=121130
http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/14346/samsung_serenata_challenges_iphone
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_7192955
(from JPR) If you asked any of the executives at Nvidia if they were planning to offer an IGP three years ago, they would have said something like, no way, Who’d want to be in that low margin business? We have way too many other things to do, etc. And, at the time, they probably believed it, or at the … Read more
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This isn’t the first—this is the last back page I’ll write this year, unless I decide to write one more. But is being first really so important? Well, if you’re really first, that is, if you actually have product you can ship, then yes, it is important because you set the bar for the competitors and position them in your … Read more
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/10/16/financial/f100105D99.DTL&type=tech
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/10/02/apple.iphone.lawsuit.ap/index.html
TIBURON, CA—November 26, 2007 —What a difference a couple of quarters can make in the dynamic market for graphics add-in boards (AIBs). Q1’07 was downright ugly, not so much with respect to units but very much so in the context of revenue and ASPs. Volume was down just modestly, but ASPs and revenue (street) were way down, off 21.2% sequentially … Read more
When I start up my 1.86 MHz XP-pro based HP laptop WS computer which I’ve been using for over two years and sort of gotten comfortable (albeit not satisfied) with, it’s a slow process. Checking the Task Manager (which I now run all the time to see what makes the machine suddenly stop) I see that it is loading several … Read more
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/03/BUQJSIKLF.DTL
