Last week the Internationale Funkausstellung was held in Berlin. This is the largest consumer electronics convention in Europe, equaling and perhaps surpassing the CES show that occurs every January in Las Vegas. One of the central themes behind major new product launches was the Internet and the central role it is now beginning to play […]
Amazon’s introduction of the Kindle electronic book reader feels momentous. It is the first time that the long anticipated, much debated future of the ‘ebook’ feels ready to begin in a meaningful way. During the past ten years there has been great debate about the ebook. Generally speaking there have been three points of view […]
Google has now made the long awaited announcement that it would be entering the wireless arena. It was not a product, or “Google Phone†roll-out, but rather the announcement of OHA, or the Open Handset Alliance. OHA(my choice to come up with an acronym as the full name sounds a bit too bureaucratic and almost […]
This is the second week in a row of attending an important convention in Las Vegas. Last week was the largest consumer electronic convention, CES. This week a Television convention that is in its forty-fourth year and which, for the past two decades has been very important and influential, NATPE.. Last week a convention about […]
Ten years ago the word convergence was most often used when predicting the convergence of the television set and the computer. Granted there were things like PDAs that synched up to a computer, but the PDA could go into the pocket and the computer could not. As we all know, it was the cell phone […]
This week at the Consumer Electronics Show there are hundreds of companies touting new gadgets that are “revolutionary†“innovative†“at the cutting edge†and “totally coolâ€. I will leave the descriptions of all these to the mainstream media as they already excessively cover this convention. Instead I will give you some view on the larger […]
The other day Tivo announced that it had created software to allow Internet Video on Television. The expected convergence of video, TV and the Internet is now in full force. As I wrote in an earlier post about Apple’s announcement of iTV, everything is converging onto the big flat screen in the living room. Channel […]
Steve Jobs made the expected announcement that Apple would market the iTV , the gadget that will link the Apple computer in the den to the television set in the living room. Most of the reporting on this announcement was around the coming wave of downloading movies onto the computer and then transferring them to […]