April 4, 2007
Jobs Unlikely to Push for Lift of Video DRM | news.yahoo.com
Steve Jobs commented yesterday that he would not hold a parallel at all between the video industry and the music industry. It is not surprising that there is no rush to open DRM for video.
Revolution of Digital Music, is the phase II on ?
April 3, 2007
EMI to allow Apple to sell songs online | www.businessweek.com
Are we entering the phase II of the Digital Music revolution ?
After releasing the iPod, launching the iTunes Music Store and capturing almost 80% of the digital market, Apple is now answering some specialists scepticism on digital music by releasing free DRM music on iTMS (iTunes Music Store).
Is it just an evolution or the era of a new revolution ?
Is there a place for Radio Shack?
February 5, 2007
Ahead of the Bell: RadioShack | www.businessweek.com
There can be. In the spirit of first things first, cleaning up their operations, processes and balance sheet is absolutely necessary. It’s key to creating a solid foundation to support their next step – injecting vision, creativity and badly needed brand personality into their small stores, and making them synonymous with quick, easy transactions for basic CE and related products you need in hurry.
January 30, 2007
Will Vista Be A Big Deal, Or Ho- Hum? | www.usatoday.com
When a giant like Microsoft releases it’s biggest new product in over 5 years, you can’t deny it’s big. And, while many of the improvements are similar to what’s been available for some time on the Mac OS, it’s evolutionary, not revolutionary, but big. Vista to Mac ratio is 20:1.
If you think it’s so easy why don’t you do it yourself? Okay I think I will.
January 26, 2007
A peek at private label consumer electronics trends | www.edn.com
And they are. Whether it’s manufacturers opening retail stores or retailers getting into the manufacturing business, it’s happening, and it’s working. Apple, Sony, Nokia, and Bose retail stores; Sear’s Craftsman, Safeway’s Organics, Best Buy’s Insignia, Costco’s Kirkland brands are a few good examples of where it’s working.
December retail, and retailer, results will play on in 2007
January 18, 2007
December U.S. Retail Sales Rose More Than Expected | online.wsj.com
Retail ended strong in 2006. While the amount of increase was higher than the market might have expected, key trends were not terribly surprising, and should be used as an indicator of what's to come in 2007.
AMD Leads up to 65 nm Manufacturing Progressors in 2007
January 5, 2007
AMD rolls out new power-saving processors | news.yahoo.com
1. From Socket AM2 to AM2+ and Cities Core Platform From Socket 939 to 1207
2. From 90 nm to 65nm
3. Agena and Kuma, 4 Cores Platform, Stars
January 4, 2007
Traditional Retailer Gain Online | www.globest.com
While Amazon.com was the #1 retail site in dollars spent for the 2006 holiday season, Bestbuy.com was #1 in growth. Walmart.com was #2. According to the data firm ComScore, bricks-and-mortar retailers saw the highest percentage sales increases over 2005.
What’s driving their growth? Choice is a wonderful thing. Multi-channel retailers that embrace and combine the strengths of their different channels, using them to complement each other rather than compete with each other, will outperform the others.
December 21, 2006
Big-box battle: Retailers hope to lure holiday shoppers early | seattletimes.nwsource.com
Big box retailers are training consumers to shop early or shop late with no really compelling reasons to shop in between. The increasingly promotional activities before Thanksgiving, lead by Wal-Mart this year, followed up by unprecedented pricing on Black Friday created a tough first half of December for retailers, and a nerve racking final days of the pre-Christmas shopping period.
Digital SLRs go beyond megapixels.
December 14, 2006
Digital Cameras Get Flashy | online.wsj.com
The point and shoot digital camera category is still growing, but maturing. The SLR digital camera category is a relatively new category - just now emerging in the mass market channel - representing dramatically higher ASPs and accessory add-on opportunities for retailers and manufacturers.
February 7, 2012
SOPA and the wisdom of Yogi Berra
January 19, 2012
Larger wafers present a growth opportunity for LEDs
January 6, 2012
Smartphones threaten digital camera industry
December 1, 2011
Google music launches: The end of the end for the music industry
November 22, 2011