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- Consumer electronics sales to grow 6.1% in 2008
- The consumer electronics industry is projected to post a healthy 6.1% increase in revenues in 2008, according to Consumer Electronics Association. Overall shipment revenues are forecast to top $171 bln in 2008, yielding a growth rate of 6.1%. CEA also released its estimate of final shipment revenues for 2007, which...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, Consumer Electronics Industry, Shipment Revenue, Gaming Category, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Home Entertainment, Microsoft Windows CE, Games, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Consumer electronics industry in China to generate $94 bln in 2010
- Consumer electronics industry in China to generate $94 bln in 2010China Consumer IndustryIt would appear Best Buy is going into China just in time. I think Best Buy will clean up in China by bringing in U.S. style marketing and organization. www.chinalawblog.com
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, consumer electronics
- Discussion threads 2006-05-12
- 1.9 mln Americans work in consumer electronics industry
- As of December 2005, the consumer electronics industry employed approximately 1.9 mln people or 1.4% of the US's non-farm workforce. Encompassing employment across the entire value chain, this can be distributed into the categories of retail (574,000), manufacturing (212,000), transportation (38,000), and use (1,073,000). In 2005, the industry added 30,000...
- Tags: industry, manufacturing
- Blog posts 2006-03-14
- Senate bill bans P2P networks
- Senate bill bans P2P networksUnintended consequences of bad lawsI have a DVR provided from my cable company that I can record music and video on from TV like TiVO. Since VCRs, copiers, TiVo, etc. are mentioned in the discussion, how long before they are included in the bill? Stupid to...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Consumer Electronics Industry, U.S. Senate, network, P2P, copyright law, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2004-06-23
- Sony Ships It With RFID: Zebra, Symbol, Mieloo & Alexander and SAP Implement Successful RFID-Solution
- Sony Logistics Europe B.V. SLE in Tilburg, The Netherlands, is the European distribution centre of Sony Europe. The consumer electronics industry is highly competitive, and Sony Supply Chain Management is constantly looking for ways to advance its operation and to move ahead of the competition, in support of Sony's strategy...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Zebra Technologies Corp., SAP AG, Consumer Electronics Industry, RFID, Supply Chain, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Business Operations
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- Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea
- Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...
- Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Nokia: Our market share will slip over weak demand
- Nokia said Friday that its mobile device market share will slip in the third quarter from the second quarter "due to weaker consumer confidence in multiple markets." The company also said it refused to be lured into a price war. Nokia (all resources, reviews and blogs) said...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?
- The day after it launched the first ad in its $300 consumer-focused make-over campaign, Microsoft is going public with some of the other planned Windows-branding fixes it has in the pipeline. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Brand, PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Dell repair adventure, conclusion
- Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than magic was performed, the system booted up and ran just as it did before. I appreciate the help provided by...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?
- The One Laptop Per Child OLPC program will begin selling its XO laptop via Amazon this year in a reprise of its Give One Get One (G1G1) program, according to Ars Technica and several other outlets. Although the Ars piece paints this a real boon for OLPC, whose G1G1...
- Tags: Developing Country, Amazon.com Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Martin jabs back at Comcast over suit
- FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin responded to Comcast's lawsuit challenging the agency's authority to sanction the company. "Given Comcast's past failure to disclose its network management practices to its customers, it is important Comcast respond to the many still-unanswered questions about its new management techniques," Martin...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Networking, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft
- It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...
- Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Best way to sell drugs is to talk to your doctor
- A Harvard study of direct-to-consumer advertising, using French Canadians as a control group, found expensive TV ads foo drugs like Nasonex, Enbrel and Zelnorm had, at best, a transitory impact on sales, which quickly dissipated. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Advertisement, Enbrel, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- $600 mln worth of nanomaterials for electronics to sell in 2008
- The global market for nanomaterials for electronics applications will reach $600 mln in 2008 and grow at a compound annual rate of more than 40% to reach nearly $7 bln in 2015, according to The Information Network. The Semiconductor sector will have a 62.1% share of the $600 mln market...
- Tags: Electronics, Market, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- $600 mln worth of nanomaterials for electronics to sell in 2008
- The global market for nanomaterials for electronics applications will reach $600 mln in 2008 and grow at a compound annual rate of more than 40% to reach nearly $7 bln in 2015, according to The Information Network. The Semiconductor sector will have a 62.1% share of the $600 mln market...
- Tags: Electronics, Market, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List
- Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Wireless Access: What Price Speed
- Is Verizon missing a trick in its trench warfare with Cablevision? Or has the maverick cable operator found an Achilles heel in the telephone operator's methods of providing TV, phone and particularly Internet access to customers in the New York area – and possibly nationwide? One...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, Wireless Access, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- BREAKING: Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops
- Sony said today that it is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide due to faulty parts that could trigger overheating. The recall involves 19 models in the Vaio TZ series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008. The laptops are being recalled because improperly placed wires near...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Recall, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
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