Tuesday - June 30, 2009
Sales and revenues for the home systems channel will decline in 2009, just as they did in 2008. Many projects will be postponed or canceled this year. There will a decline in revenues of over 5 percent from 2008 to 2009. That's the bad news. However, integrators and manufacturers should not build their strategic plans based on "doom-and-gloom" headlines. Parks Associates expects the market will start to recover in 2010. In 2010, pent-up demand for home systems will push residential sales for home systems up for a nearly 12 percent increase.
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Tuesday - June 30, 2009
Companies used to turn to outsourcing during tough financial times. The current global recession, however, has curtailed outsourcing as much as it has other parts of the economy. "Oddly enough, the global recession has hurt outsourcing significantly," said Chad Hahn, principal owner of Hahn Consulting.
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Tuesday - June 16, 2009
Whether it's around the dinner table or just in front of the TV, U.S. families say they are spending less time together. The decline in family time coincides with a rise in Internet use and the popularity of social networks, though a new study stopped just short of assigning blame.
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Monday - May 18, 2009
For the last decade, the PC market has kind of sucked. Against the massive growth of the '90s, and with the exception of Apple, which didn't do well in that decade, the PC market has been a poor reflection of the excitement that once surrounded it. Part of the problem was the focus on computation and the lack of focus on things that make computing exciting.
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Sunday - May 10, 2009
Got a bright business idea? Take a number. Americans haven't stopped dreaming up newfangled gizmos or sketching engineering marvels on the back of cocktail napkins. However, tight credit and business cutbacks have slowed the pace of getting the latest U.S. innovations to market. Venture capital investments have plummeted. Lenders aren't lining up to fund business startups.
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Friday - May 1, 2009
Two different types of media uses are propelling the vision for a connected consumer electronics home. These two concepts -- media server and cloud media -- increase the value of television as well as other devices by increasing the ability to discover, aggregate, access and display different types of media. They are two very different scenarios, differentiated mainly by where the content ultimately resides.
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Thursday - April 30, 2009
Sure, plenty of readers are turning more to the Web for newspaper and magazine stories, but are they giving up on print altogether? In many cases, yes, according to a recent study by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. It found that 22 percent of Internet users have canceled a print subscription because they could get the same product online.
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Wednesday - April 29, 2009
Weeks before the CDC and WHO alerted the public to a growing number of swine flu cases, a startup based in Seattle's suburbs already had a hunch something was up. Veratect, a 2-year-old company with fewer than 50 employees, combines computer algorithms with human analysts to monitor online and offline sources for hints of disease outbreaks and civil unrest worldwide.
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Sunday - April 26, 2009
In the midst of the first-quarter earnings reports season, investors are beginning to look at the effects of some spectacular price cuts for prepaid cell phone service. That's a change from recent years, when flashy new phones and data services hogged the spotlight. This year, the developments have been more appropriate for a recession.
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Wednesday - April 22, 2009
"HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY." So read Oprah Winfrey's first tweet last Friday. Given Twitter's wild success, the addition of one more devotee ordinarily would not create much of an impact -- even a celebrity like Winfrey. However, Winfrey made her Twitter debut on her TV show.
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Monday - April 20, 2009
I was in Malta last week at the IFA 2009 conference, which is partially intended to drive interest into Malta as a technology center. This is one of the locations where people believe a new Silicon Valley might be born, and that certainly focuses us on the fact that the current Silicon Valley isn't what it once was.
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