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100 Best Products, Sliced and Diced

Posted in Business, Consumer Electronics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »

PC World recently released their 100 Best Products of 2008.  Always a great topic for debate, these “Top/Best” lists, no?
Doesn’t matter, what appeals to me is the navigation capabilities of the list.  Look at it in ranked order, ABC order, category order, most anticipated (in pictures), or by readers’ top choices. 
Jason’s highlights and lowlights:
#1 Hulu: [...]

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Your Green Gadgets

Posted in Consumer Electronics, Green, Ideas, tagged , , , , , , on February 12, 2008 | No Comments »

Speaking of green, do you have any idea how much energy you consume via your gadgets?  Your home theater system, TVs, DVRs, Tivos, telephones, PCs, laptops, Macs, monitors?
When a beloved gadget dies, as they all eventually do, how do you dispose of it?  Are you green enough to find a recycling site?
The Consumer Electronics Association [...]

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Tech Stores Bite the Dust

Posted in Business, Consumer Electronics, Retail, tagged , , , , , , on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »

This isn’t breaking news or anything, but both Dell and Treo closed their freestanding stores in the past few weeks. 
Treo had 34 stores, believe it or not, and is facing a class-action lawsuit by owners of Treo 600 and 650 devices.  (I’ll be joining that lawsuit. If you own/owned a Treo 600 or 650, go here for [...]

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Fake Steve Jobs is Really, REALLY Funny

Posted in Apple, Authors, Brands, Consumer Electronics, Free speech, tagged , , , , , on January 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Check out his acceptance speech of a Crunchie Award, on behalf of Real Steve Jobs and Apple.  The language is NSFW.  But hilarious.   Based on this 4-minute clip alone, I’m now an admirer.

You can find a recap of the Crunchie Award winners here.  Take a few minutes to check out the nominees and winners.  I [...]

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Who’d Ya Rather? CES or Homeland Security Conference

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »

CES has robots.  Robots are really cool.
The Homeland Security Stakeholders Conference has robots with shotguns.

CES has cameras.  Lots and lots of super nice cameras.
HSSC: Wireless, remote-controlled cameras you can throw at stuff you want to record.
CES has great big crowds.
HSSC? CrowdFlow crowd simulators.
CES has sessions such as “Keeping CE off the Curb” and “Last Gadget Standing.”
HSSC, frighteningly, has ”Better [...]

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I Saw All of CES, and I Stayed Home

Posted in Consumer Electronics, Ideas, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 11, 2008 | No Comments »

How far away are we from soaking in an entire gigantic trade show by going absolutely nowhere except online?  I think we’re getting much, much closer.
I’ve attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas 3 times, but not since 2005.  Each year, I found it more difficult to make it to not only each huge [...]

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Are You Next, Circuit City?

Posted in Consumer Electronics, Retail, tagged , , , on January 4, 2008 | No Comments »

I experienced Black Friday Madness one time, in 2006.  I got out of bed at 4am or so, somewhere found an open Starbucks, and ventured to Circuit City to buy an advertised laptop.  I couldn’t believe what I saw.  A line of hundreds of people drifting past several other large retailers’ (closed, darkened) front doors.  [...]

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CES: Content Electronics Show?

Posted in Books, Consumer Electronics, Retail, book publishing, tagged , , , , , on December 20, 2007 | No Comments »

According to a special report from Retailing Today, “Delivering digital content to consumers in new ways will be a key theme at the Consumer Electronics Show next month in Las Vegas.”  I think this is great news, and a potential learning experience, for all of us in book publishing.  Especially publishers with rich, valuable content. [...]

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