Samsung Electronics has struck deals with AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp to carry its new tablet computer, the Wall Street Journal says.
Samsung is scheduled to unveil the Galaxy Tab in the U.S. market at an event at New York City's Time Warner Center on Sept. 16.
The Galaxy Tab is essentially a larger version of Samsung's new Galaxy S smartphone.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
AT&T, Sprint, Verizon to carry Samsung tablet
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Twitter Displacing RSS?
Many users appear to be abandoning RSS readers as a way to read the news. Hitwise, for instance, tells us that visits to Google Reader are down 27 percent year-over-year, while visits to Bloglines are down 71 percent year-over-year.
Real-time news increasingly seems to be something people think they can get from Twitter, or maybe Facebook. It is clear that real-time search has become more crucial now that real-time content services have gotten more popular.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Multichannel Video Providers Might Be in For a Tough Time
Bernstein Research says the cable and satellite industries face a "new normal" of years, perhaps decades, of reduced discretionary consumer spending, compared to the "boom" times that preceded the economic meltdown.
That is going to pose quite a management challenge, since the annual price increases service providers have been able to push through will be much more difficult.
Bernstein Research Senior Analyst Craig Moffett notes that video subscribers have recently declined for the first time in recorded history and said that it was likely more than just the downturn in new housing.
Some think a few more quarters of data will be needed to confirm a possible trend, but if the slowdown does continue, service providers and programmers alike are going to have to rethink their prospects.
Up to this point, programmers have said they need higher fees from distributors to fund the cost of more original programming. Fees paid to sports programmers have been a salient example of the trend, but not the only example.
If distributors cannot raise their prices, there will be new questions about whether the higher fees can be paid to the programmers, and new questions about whether the annual price increases can be counted on to fuel continued distributor revenue growth as well.
That will make the business case for broadband access investment more difficult, as entertainment video has become a significant part of the revenue mix for fiber-rich telco access networks.
To compensate, distributors might have to turn to higher broadband access prices, higher voice prices, or both. You can make your own guesses about what consumers might do if voice or fixed-line broadband access prices rise.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Laptops are Most Common Mobility Tool
Similarly, mobile phones, smartphones, PDAs, netbooks and tablets are reserved for only a small minority of the work force.
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
21% of Enterprise Employee Time is Away From Primary Location
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On average, 21 percent of employees’ work week is spent away from their primary work location (not including the daily commute), and that number rises to 37 percent for executives.
Whether taking a business trip, using public Wi-Fi in Internet cafes and libraries or working remotely from home, employees are spending an increasing amount of time working in mobile and indeed multiple locations.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
JPMorgan to Test iPhone, Androids as Alternatives to BlackBerry
JPMorgan Chase & Co. may soon let employees use iPhones for corporate e-mail, making it an alternative to Research in Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry at the bank for the first time.
JPMorgan is testing the Apple Inc. device and smartphones based on Google Inc.’s Android software. The bank is the second-largest in the U.S. by assets and has about 220,000 employees worldwide.
JPMorgan is testing the Apple Inc. device and smartphones based on Google Inc.’s Android software. The bank is the second-largest in the U.S. by assets and has about 220,000 employees worldwide.
It's just another sign of changing times in the smartphone business.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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