Big screen TVs are popular. Better picture definitely. But unexpectedly they seem to be the hot item worldwide. Unexpected because they've been expensive. Still are. A regular TV (63 cms, 27 inches) in the US can now cost only 125 bucks, anything flat and the same size, will be over the 1000 US dollar mark. But at [...]
People overestimate the short term impact of new technology, and underestimate the long term impact of new technology. It's not a new thought, but we keep on coming back to it. It wasn't too many years ago that we looked like we were all going to go virtual…. An extremely immersive world. Well, it looks [...]
Only 330,000 VCR's were sold in the US last year. In 2006 its expected to be half that number. Could this be the last year for retails sales of what was the last word in recording technology in the eighties and nineties? And what of movie and TV industry fears in the early eighties that VCR's [...]
Stop me if you've heard this. Downloading is little threat to my business. Napster is like teenagers borrowing music tapes. The internet will plateau at 10% of the market. All are the work of Alan Giles, the newly ex CEO of HMV, a retailer that plunged into the red after the worst Christmas retailing numbers [...]
Tech sector expected operating profit growth rate is 16% in 2006, compared with 14% for energy and 13% for the average blue-chip company, Thomson data shows. Prices are rising. Apple up 19% this year, Seagate Technology up 21% and Cisco up 11%. The Stock market is thinking bull. The sector is hot and ideas and companies are hitting the [...]
Video games sold a record 10.5 billion US dollars in 2005 retail. This was on the back of Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS launch yet Game Boy Advance still held half the portable 1.6 billion dollar market. Consoles struggled last year. But 2006 is the year of Playstation 3, xBox 360 and Nintendo Revolution. All [...]
For the last 4 months I have been trying to change the name on my Amex card. They have repeatedly told me that they are changing the name of the card, and then haven't done anthing. So for 4 months they have been dragging the chain, forcing me to have regular conversations with their back [...]