The economic downturn knocked the wind out of the handset market in the third and fourth quarters of 2008, resulting in shipments of 1.2 billion handsets for the year and overall growth of just 5.4 percent, according to data released today from… Read More »
Archive for January 2009
So it looks like San Jose, Calif., may not be getting the Tesla Motors Model S factory after all. While the Silicon Valley electric sports car maker said in September that it planned to build an assembly plant for its second-generation vehicle at an 89-acre… Read More »
Users do not mind seeing double the number of ads — eight vs. four — interspersed in an online broadcast of an hour-long TV show, according to new research done by ABC.com. News of the study came during a panel discussion yesterday including Disney-ABC TV… Read More »
Netbook fans in the U.K. are getting all the good scoop on Acer’s larger Aspire One model. The new netbook was recently outed on Acer’s U.K. site and today the local ZDNet page has more information as well. According to them, the upcoming 10-inch display… Read More »
Disney-ABC TV Laying Off Hundreds; cuts coming from all divisions across the company and represent 5 percent of the company’s payroll. (The Hollywood Reporter) Google TV Ads Offer DVR Data; service gives its advertisers metrics on when and how their ad is viewed during time-shifted playback.… Read More »
The drop-off in demand for personal computers is hitting the graphics chip market hard. Jon Peddie Research has issued a report showing that total GPU shipments fell to 72.4 million in the fourth quarter — down 2 percent year-over-year and 35 percent from the… Read More »
Once again, the future is being told in code. Firmware code, specifically. MacRumors has discovered evidence that suggests a major hardware revision is in the works for the iPhone line. They arrived at this conclusion after finding a section of code in the latest iPhone… Read More »
I have only been running the Windows 7 beta on the HP Mini 2140 netbook for a few hours but I have been using the beta on other computers for a while so I think my first impressions are valid to visit at this point. The… Read More »
The Pew Internet and American Life Project released its Generations Online in 2009 (PDF) report yesterday, breaking down how different generations are using the Internet — and it’s not all dour news for the older set. As you would imagine, Generation Y (ages 18 -32)… Read More »
Maybe I’m biased towards writing-related topics because of my background and personal projects, but I also think good writing is one of the most important cornerstones of good business, and therefore useful in any line of web work. One of the best ways to improve any… Read More »
The technology industry cut close to 186,955 jobs in 2008, up 74.2 percent from the 107,295 job cuts recorded in 2007, according to data collected by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a recruitment company based in Chicago. The firm claims that job cuts… Read More »
Sony Ericsson recently reported huge losses for the second straight quarter, for which it blamed the struggling economy. The results included a $240 million quarter loss and a 21 percent drop in phone shipments, garnering a vote of low confidence among analysts. And as Dick Komiyama,… Read More »
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