When we evaluate new technology I believe that the key equation is “push or pull.” It is the rare new technology product released to the public where the reaction is an immediate: “I want that.” I suppose Facebook and Twitter are recent examples of “I want that” being a very common refrain. It certainly didn’t [...]
…except that you can’t use it as a phone (not out of the box, at any rate).
And it’s not really a computer, because it runs on the iPhone OS. So yes, as Steve Jobs pointed out, there are currently 140,000 applications for that OS, but most of them are better described as “applets” rather than [...]
“The McGraw-Hill Companies reported a 43.2% increase in fourth quarter EPS,” says today’s press release.(Log-in may be required).
The big gains were in McGraw-Hill Education at 2.6% and in Financial Services at 10.6%.
“Information & Media” declined by 11.4%; you’ll have to dig deeper than I have to figure that one out.
The major message I’m receiving is [...]
I cheerfully admit to being a short-term economic pessimist, and a long term optimist.
But I have been appalled recently to read the all-too-numerous accounts that happy days are (for sure, probably, or at least nearly) here again.
My question is: What if they’re not?
I believe that there is a tremendous amount of data that supports a [...]
No press release was issued by Adobe, but a few press outlets caught the story. I found it the other day in PrintAction’s weekly enewsletter. Clive Chan, PrintAction’s associate editor, tells me that he picked up the story from Macworld UK.
Further searching brings me to a blog entry from January 4, 2010 by the excellent journalist Cary Sherburne [...]
A fine blog post from Joe Esposito that I wish I’d written…a small excerpt:
Empires, by definition, begin their decline at their peak. Today Amazon bestrides the publishing world like Caesar, and it may seem far-fetched to think of this company slipping from its dominant position. There is some doubt, however, that Amazon can continue to [...]
The Publishers Information Bureau has released its tally for 2009 (based on 250 members) and U.S. magazine ad sales were off by 18.1% last year while the total number of advertising pages dropped 25.6% compared to 2008. BusinessWeek points out that the revenue decrease is “more than twice as steep as a year earlier…The drop [...]
It is the bane of the current eBook mania that I must, as your humble servant, continue to give this subject far more coverage than I would like to. At the Las Vegas (”City of Disappointment and Personal Bankruptcy”) CES (Consumer Electronics Show) which ended today, there were a slew of new eBook reader introductions. [...]
Above is the headline in a tiny article in today’s New York Times.
I reference it because it states what I believe to be true: “Stuck between the still-evolving smartphone and the emerging tablet computer, the netbook computer would seem to be doomed.”
It’s not so much that I necesarily feel that the NetBook is doomed, but I [...]
OK, I’m obsessed. I just checked and I’ve written over 30 blog entries in the last few years about Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, for what I consider empty, meaningless hype around the Kindle and eBooks generally. Where is Peter Finch’s Howard Beale when we need him: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take [...]
