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HD DVD Takes a Nose Dive

Posted in CES, HD-DVD, IPTV, Intel®, Movie Download, PLAYSTATION®3, PS3, Playstation 3, Sony, Technology, VHS/Betamax, Video, Warner Music, blu-ray, microsoft, prediction, prognostication, xBox 360, tagged on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

By now you’ve read about Warner Bros. Entertainment announcement to drop HD DVD and focus on Blu-ray, a Sony Corp. backed technology vs. rival Toshiba.  Warner was the last major studio to put out movies in both formats and after May they will exclusively release on Blu-ray. 
The announcement by Warner rattled the industry nerves to [...]

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Give A Computer A Cookie

Posted in Etiquette, Links, Opt-in, Privacy, Technology, Trolling, prediction, tagged , , , , , , , on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Like the famous book “Give A Mouse A Cookie…” by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Illustrator Felicia Bond, “cookies” are often used by advertisers and Web analytic firms on most all web sites.   They place “tracking cookies” on your computer.  And like the book, the mouse will “ask for a glass of milk…” you can sure [...]

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Intel Launches Cool Software

Posted in CoolSW, Intel®, Technology, prediction, tagged , , , , , , on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

There was joke floating around a few years ago about “What’s the difference between Intel, Inc. and Jurassic Park?”  As the joke goes one is a high tech dinosaur park and the other is a movie! 

Well, these days Intel is firing on all cylinders and the latest activity from the semiconductor company is not typical…they launched [...]

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Social Visualization

Posted in Blogroll, IBM, Mashup, Politics, Social Networks, Technology, prediction on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I ran across a cool website mention in the local paper today and decided to give it a look. I’m a visual person and making things visual always gets my attention. IBM’s Visual Communication Lab enables anyone to upload all kinds of data and turn them into graphs, maps, tag clouds and other [...]

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Tell Me What You Want

Posted in Blogroll, Customers, Social Networks, Technology, prediction, prognostication on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I recently sat in on panel discussions and audience interactions at ETECH. At each session we were met by enthusiastic people/companies that have a genuine concern about understanding what customers want.
In a world where the noise of the social crowd is amped up exponentially with endless streams of chatter…what I took away was confirming some [...]

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EMI Music DRM-Free – Who cares?

Posted in Blogroll, Music, Piracy, iPod/iTunes, prediction, zune on April 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Apple will sale EMI music without anti-piracy (DRM – digital rights management) technology — Steve Jobs proclaimed in February that music companies should sell their music DRM-free. Evangelizing that DRM-free music would create a truly interoperable music marketplace.
About a month later (4/2/07), in agreement with music label EMI, Apple is making EMI songs available [...]

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Sat-Rad Mergers

Posted in Blogroll, Technology, XM Satellite Radio, prediction on February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve subscribed to XM Satellite Radio since April 2006. Previously, I was a subscriber of Sirius Satellite Radio for about two years. I remember the hype leading up to the Howard Stern launch. I’m a fan of the Satellite radio, and like XM better.
Now comes the proposed merger with rival Sirius [...]

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7 Predictions for ‘07

Posted in 2007, Apple, Blogroll, Copyright, DMCA, Gen C, GenX, HD-DVD, IPTV, Leopard, Mashup, Mobile TV, Social Networks, Technology, blu-ray, iPod/iTunes, microsoft, misdemeanor, prediction, prognostication, xBox 360 on December 21, 2006 | 2 Comments »

 
Looking in the mirror at just what objects did appear closer as the year comes to a close, I suspect a key question on your mind is: What is Mac’s prognostication of digital home and general usage trends next year…?
1. Music is THE Application for Mobile Phones
CD-quality music is going to be on more than [...]

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