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New Media Minute: One-third of U.S. Adults to Own a Tablet by 2016; What it Means for Online Video Ads
Forrester expects that 112.5 million adults, or one-third of the adult population, will own a tablet by 2016, a revision of its previous forecast of 82.1 million. That’s a huge jump, but it’s not just from the iPad3 announced last week. The increase is due to the success of the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet ...
New Mediia Minute: CES 2012 Outlook Connected TVs on Pace for Big Year
The annual Consumer Electronics show has kicked off this week in Las Vegas, with gadgets and TV galore. CE makers from Samsung to LG are rolling out new connected TV partnerships, as these smart sets accounted for 52 million sets sold last year. Now, in 2012, manufacturers are promoting Internet-capable TVs even more to distinguish ...
HP Hires New Governmental Affairs Lead
HP announced today that Gregg Melinson would be taking over as Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Deputy General Counsel. Mr. Melinson will be taking over for Larry Irving, and will work primarily from the company’s Palo Alto headquarters. For the better part of the last two decades Mr. Melinson has been a partner ...
World of Class Warfare Online: Senate Moving to Tax E-Commerce
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is currently drafting a bill that would levy new taxes on Internet sales with the aim of exacting the same liability on online stores as their brick-and-mortar counterparts. The proposed legislation is expected to arrive sometime after the Easter recess. “Why should out-of-state companies that sell their products online have an ...
A Cloud for the Future
Guest post by David Messina, Vice President, Product Marketing, Xangati With so much cloud computing hoopla, it is challenging for all of us in the industry to narrow the technology’s focus and keep it from flying too high in the ether. Luckily, I was able to participate as a panelist last week in one of ...
Why Education Will Bolster the Future of the Tech Sector
This is a guest post from Aaron Fulkerson. As co-founder and CEO of MindTouch, Aaron has grown a small open source project into one of the World’s most widely used and successful collaboration platforms. Prior to co-founding MindTouch, Aaron was a member of Microsoft’s Advanced Strategies and Policies division and worked on distributed systems research. ...
Guest Post: Some Perspective on the Japan Earthquake
by Patrick McKenzie [日本の方へ:読者が日本語版を翻訳していただきました。ご参照してください。] I run a small software business in central Japan. Over the years, I’ve worked both in the local Japanese government (as a translator) and in Japanese industry (as a systems engineer), and have some minor knowledge of how things are done here. English-language reporting on the matter has been so bad ...
GeekBeat.TV #87: CES 2011 – Audiovox
Power, Sound, and Automotive Devices from Audiovox Everyone knows what it’s like to run short of power on our gadgets. Audiovox is looking to make that happen a little less often with some goodies they showed me at CES. They also have a Personal Sound Amplifier, an in-ear device for people with moderate hearing loss. ...