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Social Media #2 — Getting Started

Posted by Andy Marken on August 15th 2010 | Permalink
Categories Blogs, The Market
Tags: social networking, marketing

Social media—1:1 marketing and communications is so new, it sounds glamorous. Some see it as a new sense of freedom, romantic even.  Just you and him (or her) bonding, building a relationship, building sales. The first thing the company has to do is forget about employing their mass advertising thinking to social media.  People don’t want, expect, appreciate marketing messages being pushed at them on the Web. According to a study by Digital Brand Expressions, nearly all of the firms surveyed in the consumer industry are committed to carrying out a social media program.   Research where respondents at participating companies…

TV revolutions; the struggle continues

Posted by Kathleen Maher on April 28th 2010 | Permalink
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Tags: nvidia gaming s3d lenticular 3d ip tv autostereoscopic 3d glasses 3d tv

Revolutions always take a long time. It’s the shooting and fighting part that goes fast. At NAB it looks like we’re just winding up the shooting and fighting part for S3D but that doesn’t mean we know who wins. Clearly, obviously, and totally for sure man, 3D is going to be a fact of life in the movie theaters and it’ll certainly be a novelty for home movies and sports. But, the thing is, TV watching is mutating so fast that we’re not so sure what people will be watching in 2015 and what they’ll be watching it on. We participated…

First thoughts on CES and tablets

Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 10th 2010 | Permalink
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Tags: nvidia apple marvell ces tablets ebooks asus entourage publishing

CES has dawned bright and clear. The crowds have come and there is interest in buying – or at least that’s how it’s looking now. Plenty of news is coming out of CES, but in the PC world, tablets are consuming the attention of the buyers in the aisles as well as reporters, and we’re pretty fascinated as well. For the past couple of years, Amazon and Sony have helped make a convincing case for the eBook as people are not only buying the devices, they’re downloading and reading more as well. In fact, according to a December report from the…

Chaos in stereovision land

Posted by Jon Peddie on May 28th 2009 | Permalink
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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 have a lot to say about the subject having worked in and with stereo for several decades. As I and others have reported there are conflicting proposed standards in the cinema, for the TV, the PC, and handheld devices. All four…

My life on free; why Gutenberg and a bunch of monks are rolling in their graves

Posted by Jon Peddie on May 24th 2009 | Permalink
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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 (I have three actually, Firefox, Opera, and Safari) a tool for converting from “word” files to HTML for blog entries, called ScribeFire. I took my word-processor file, which I had saved in Word 2007 format and and dropped it in Scribefire.…

Ion arrives

Posted by Jon Peddie on April 7th 2009 | Permalink
Categories Blogs, The Market
Tags: nvidia notebooks acer lowcost pc

We have just learned that the illegitimate, and subsequently abandoned child of Creüsa, daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Xuthus, Ion, has been seen in Taiwan hiding in a slick looking blue box that… What?  Oh. Never mind, wrong Ion. Let’s start over.   The dark chocolate found in stores all over Greece is being melted into a new blue box from…  OK, I got this time – don’t interrupt me again. Acer is going to build a really slick little blue box with a positively or negatively charged atom in it, and a regular Atom, which Acer will call AspireRevo.…

The hammer falls – Intel hits AMD and Nvidia – who’s next?

Posted by Jon Peddie on March 18th 2009 | Permalink
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Intel hits AMD and Nvidia 64-bit x86 could be withdrawn -  this is MAD. Remember all those clever comments about how Intel is a hammer so everything looks like a nail to them? Well the hammer is smacking its competitors. First up was VIA who just threw in the towel and gave up on the chipset business. Next was Nvidia who were told they couldn’t interface to QPI – which would shut them out of the chipset biz. Today’s nail was AMD and they were told they’ve got 60 days to get out of Dodge and to stop building x86 parts.…

No longer in Dell’s rear-view mirror, HP now shares the workstation market lead

Posted by Alex Herrera on March 14th 2009 | Permalink
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With ’08 seeing long-time graybeard Sun drastically trimming back its workstation business and fellow industry pioneer IBM dropping its business altogether, the on-going between Dell and HP has become one of the more entertaining dynamics to watch in the marketplace. Dell’s been trying fervently to hold on to market leadership, while HP’s been working even harder to take it away. Not long ago, it was Dell that looked poised to dominate the workstation market the way Nvidia and Intel dominate the platform side: by a wide margin. Quarter after stellar quarter, Dell pleased stockholders and analysts alike. But a few years…

The death of social networking

Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 23rd 2009 | Permalink
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Social networking has been climbing its elbow curve of popularity as Facebook reaches a much broader constituency, Twitter coalesces the attention-span challenged, and LinkedIn and Plaxo connect job hunters. There’s a world party going on for the initiated. Old friends are finding each other, new friends are strengthening their links, loves lost are found again, and all that wonderful stuff, but dark clouds are forming. For instance, New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney sent a memo to Times writers admonishing them to social network responsibly as representatives of the Great Grey Lady. His point, certainly valid enough, is that…

Carol Bartz rides in to save a bunch of Yahoos.

Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 14th 2009 | Permalink
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Wow, well this is news (or at least it was yesterday). I didn’t know what I thought about it all until I talked to a reporter this morning who forced me to take a walk down memory lane before I even had my coffee. God knows what I said to the guy that was useful. It felt like he was looking for the one sentence summation, like “she’ll fire everyone,” and somewhere in all my rambling he probably got it, but what Carol Bartz has done and what she can do at Yahoo! is very worthy of some thought and more…