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- Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product design
- Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product designhuh?"Engadget points out another irony of the move: When asked for his reaction to the original Segway design Steve Jobs said “I think it sucks.” Funny how things change, isn’t it?"so? He probably still thinks it sucks. Just because he...
- Tags: Product marketing, Engineering, iCAR, product design, Segway, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product design
- A post by Ãœber Administrator and Wise Segway Elder John Grohol on the SegwayChat message boards reveals that Doug Field is leaving Segway for Apple. Doug Field, the chief technology officer at Segway who heads their entire engineering team (and has since Day 1), is leaving Segway to become...
- Tags: Product Design, Segway, Apple Inc., Doug, Product Marketing, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Cisco Energy-Efficient Data Center Solutions
- Data center power and cooling requirements are high priority topics for Cisco customers, prompted by recent advances in computing and storage product designs. The network is uniquely positioned in the data center to facilitate increased utilization of storage resources. In some cases, the network also provides virtualization services that in...
- Tags: Data Center, Product Design, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Dell may get serious about product design
- Dell may get serious about product designAnother huge mis-step by DellSo he hired yet another person steeped in traditional thinking who's claim to fame is wrapping the same old products with a new ribbon and bow.If this is the best Mr. Dell can do then the company is in deep...
- Tags: product design, Dell BIOS, Dell Computer Corp., dell, BIOS
- Discussion threads 2007-02-16
- Dell may get serious about product design
- Michael Dell has been quickly making some necessary changes to his namesake PC maker. First, comes a shakeup. Second, comes a revamped consumer division. Dell announced that it has named Ron Garriques to serve as president of Dells global consumer business starting Feb. 19. Garriques...
- Tags: Dell, General, Hardware Infrastructure, Motorola
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Images: Cheers and jeers for user design
- From the iPod (yea!) to the motion sensor toilet (boo!), here are some recent examples of good and bad consumer product design.
- Tags: Apple iPod, toilet, product design
- Image galleries 2007-02-12
- Total Industrial Design Strategy Cuts Overall Costs, Boosts Quality
- Alloy Total Product Design offered extra value by extending role of Industrial Design ID to anticipate downstream development requirements and eliminate reverse engineering total product design. The challenge was to ensure quality products by maintaining control of surfaces through mechanical engineering and tooling development. The company defined product concepts as...
- Tags: Product Design, Siemens AG, Industrial Design, Modeling, Research & Development, Engineering, Product Marketing, Business Operations, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- NX Helps Industrial Design Firm Significantly Improve the Product Design and Development Process
- Formation Design Group Inc. is an Industrial Design ID firm that handles everything from small handheld devices to large vehicles. The company wanted to create a new look for a pallet truck and improve comfort and operator ergonomics. The company deployed open customer's assembly file of vehicle with NX software...
- Tags: Product Design, Siemens AG, Industrial Design, Engineering
- Case studies 2006-10-01
- Enabling Decision Support and Costing of Product Designs by Using Visual Metaphors
- The Systems Engineering Estimation and Decision Support SEEDS team is part of the Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre AMRC at the University of the West of England Bristol UWE. SEEDS expertise is in working with aerospace organisations to apply techniques in managing, categorising and visualising information to support costing of products...
- Tags: Product Design, Decision Support, Aerospace, Aerospace & Defense, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-09-22
- 'No Fault Found' Returns Cost the Mobile Industry $4.5 Billion Per Year
- One in seven mobile phones are returned within the first year of purchase by subscribers as faulty. Alone this statistic will doubtless raise eye brows and drive speculation over product design flaws and standards in build performance. However further analysis into the nature of these returns reveals the even more...
- Tags: Product Design, Mobile, Statistic, Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Photos: Gizmos made in Japan
- Japan is still a leader in product design and innovation. Here are some new and notable gadgets.
- Tags: leader, photograph, gizmo, innovation, Japan, product design
- Image galleries 2005-12-08
- Photos: Gizmos made in Japan
- Japan is still a leader in product design and innovation. Here are some new and notable gadgets.
- Tags: leader, photograph, gizmo, innovation, Japan, product design
- Image galleries 2005-12-08
- Product Design Collaboration: Accelerate Product Innovation With Adobe Intelligent Documents
- In this webcast, you will learn how Adobe Systems can help you speed time to market with more competitive products by streamlining the design collaboration process, featuring analyst insight from AMR Research.
- Tags: Innovation, Adobe Systems Inc., Product Design, Product Marketing, Leadership, Digital Media, Marketing, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Enhancing Your Product Design With Secure Wi-Fi Connectivity
- The massive proliferation of Wi-Fi networks in homes, offices and public spaces is motivating manufacturers to add Wi-Fi capabilities to every conceivable sort of networked device, from mobile phones to LCD televisions. But manufacturers need to address serious end-user concerns about Wi-Fi security, usability and performance. This webcast explains how...
- Tags: Product Design, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Webcasts
- ESTECO: Optimizing Product Design
- ESTECO was created in 1999 to commercialize design optimization knowledge acquired during a project sponsored by the European Union. Increasing market competition is squeezing the product development cycle time for industrial designers and manufacturers. Designers in aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, consumer products and other industries must drastically shorten turnaround times while...
- Tags: Software, Linux NetworX, Product Design, Product Development, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Marketing
- Case studies
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- Twelve best practices for online customer communities
- One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...
- Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Appearance: PPUG meets tomorrow in Philly
- If you're in the Philadelphia area I'd like to invite you to attend the Philadelphia PowerBook User Group PPUG meeting tomorrow at the Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant. We meet from 12 noon to 3pm over lunch and fine local beer. Want to debate my theory on...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Philadelphia, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup
- Looking for an iPhone 3G? Apple provides an iPhone 3G availability application on their retail Web page that lists iPhone availability by store location. The app appears to be offline as of press time. The problem is that Apple's availability application forces you to drill down store...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Mashup, Chris Barnes, 3G, Collaboration, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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