Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009
We have seen recent announcement of job cuts in almost all Telecom and Tech companies, including Microsoft and Google only to name those that are new to those announcements.
GigaOm recently echoed a recruitment firm report that estimated almost 200,000 job cuts in the tech industry in 2008.
Still there are reasons ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Sony just announced its Q4 results with a 95% decline in profits. Extracted from Associated Press :
Sony Corp. said its net profit shriveled to 10.4 billion yen ($115.6 million) in the third quarter from 200.2 billion yen a year earlier. Revenue fell 25 percent to 2.15 trillion yen from 2.86 trillion ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
According to comScore and echoed by The Economist, China is the country with most Internet users in the World, accounting for 179.7 million users out of one billion worldwide. The United States of America, until recently the leader, has 163 million users. With a far lower Internet penetration in China ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, Internet | 6 Comments »
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
This is the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the Mac and the famous 1984 ad directed by Ridley Scott. The ad would be aired only once during the Super Bowl, and cost Apple $1.5 million.
The original Macintosh was released on 24 January 1984. Known as Macintosh 128k, it was ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Laptops are killing the Desktop PC at home as they already did in the office.
It is more and more common that each member of a family has his/her own laptop. Specially now that netbooks become an affordable choice for the first personal laptop of a child.
Soon home NAS will become ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Via El Economista I found this table that shows the impressive performance of Telefonica over the past eight years since Cesar Alierta took over the CEO position from Juan Villalonga. Telefonica has gone from 15th place in 2000 to be the 3rd Telco worldwide in market capitalization after China Mobile ...
Posted in Spain, Telecom | No Comments »
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
The rise of Netbooks, of which 21 million units* will be sold in 2009, may put in jeopardy the progression of Moore's Law, as netbooks cannibalize sales of laptops. As a result of Moore's Law, the price of a mid-range PC has not changed much since long, but every year ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
It is already one year since Sony signed with the four big movie studios and knocked out Toshiba in the war for the high-definition video format. Seagate's CEO said then "Blue-ray won the battle but lost the war", referring to hard-drives as the end winners that will store HD movie ...
Posted in Digital Home, Media & New Economy | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
In 2019, while Music downloads are mostly free, people is ready to pay for Movie downloads.
The Music industry has changed in the past ten years and artists make their work known by distributing it for free. Their revenues come from fans fees, live performances, merchandising, ad endorsements and downloads of ...
Posted in FictionPrediction, Media & New Economy | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when
iPhone 3G confirmed Apple's revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset launched, the G1.
Wireless broadband became a reality, with 3G/HSDPA/EVDO ...
Posted in IT, Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | No Comments »
