Did the world end in October? Is this the death of consumerism? Edward Bernays. (Courtesy Wikja Finance) Sales for companies in all sectors dropped, inventories piled up, lay-offs expanded, and the world went into economic ...
Good to go, netbooks are a portable alternative to full-sized notebooks. They don’t replace, they accompany. (Source: Techlivez) There’s a simple rule in the computer, and other, industries—sell-through trumps sell-in. Companies that brag about having ...
Figure 1: CES attendance and DJIA correlation.(Source: Jon Peddie Research) The correlation I identified between CES attendance and the Dow-Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in 1999 continues to hold true and CES continues to be a ...
We make such a big deal about the changing of the year that you can’t help but reflect on the past year. Even if you had a crappy year you would like to forget, you’ll ...
I’m walking down the street in Chicago one sunny day with my kids and this guy and his girlfriend come up to me. He looks me up and down and says, “I’ll bet I know ...
The world is changing around us and anyone trying to live in the past with the rules of the past is doomed. The old sage about evolve or die is with us more these days ...
Game consoles, especially the vaunted Wii, have captured the imagination of game developers, pundits, and the channel. Ask anyone and they’ll tell you console games and consoles are way, like WAY bigger market than that ...
Am I having Déjà vu again? Apple began in 1976 with the 6502 processor and, in 1984, moved to the 68000 with the introduction of the Mac. The company introduced the new computer with an ...
In 1999, the Internet bubble began. Most people knew it was a bubble, laughed at the silliness of most of the deals, but a greed factor and feeding frenzy, fear of missing the boat and ...
The industry, or perhaps I should say the industries, are hurling themselves toward the newfound wonder of stereovision, which is being called 3D (not even 3D vision). 3D in the movies, 3D in games, and ...
It’s a quality issue… We now have four offerings for the consumer space of multi-core chips, which are euphemistically called processors. That is just a taste of how confusing this is all going to be, ...
Having been dazzled by four days of dancing delightful pixels in LA at Siggraph, I then took a shower and went to San Francisco to continue the consumption of pixels and information at IDF. Another ...
