When Steve Jobs spoke about the intersection of liberal arts and technology, he did not envision crushing symbols of art and culture ...
The battle between Apple and Google intensified this week with both companies unveiling long awaited business models for publishers eager to develop recurring revenue sources through sale of tablet based subscriptions. Read this article for our views regarding how the ...
Many readers will relate to this scenario: The printer is hard at work producing a 100+ page SEC Filing when the room becomes strangely silent. Surely not enough time has passed to signal a completion of the job? Sure enough, ...
One of the key questions that will determine the future success of many companies involves whether tablet computers such as the iPad can really threaten laptops. Are tablet computers a complementary device or a true substitute for the traditional laptop ...
One year is a relatively short period of time but represents an eternity when evaluating the products offered in the nascent market for electronic reading devices. One year ago, there was much excitement regarding the potential for the Kindle DX ...
Rupert Murdoch has an enduring devotion to newspapers and is eager to extend his key franchises from print to emerging digital formats. Mr. Murdoch has embraced Apple's iPad tablet device for delivery of News Corporation's Wall Street Journal and The ...
When Bill Gates promoted Steve Ballmer to the chief executive position at Microsoft over ten years ago, the company was flying high in terms of investor perceptions and had a cutting edge image placing it at the forefront of America's ...
When Apple unveiled the iPad in late January, many observers speculated that Steve Jobs may be on the verge of delivering a device capable of saving newspapers from an inexorable decline. It is difficult to visit an Apple Store to ...
Technology product introductions have a long history of being met with initial fanfare and enthusiasm only to have the euphoria recede in the subsequent days. It is the technology industry's equivalent of a hangover after a night of binge drinking ...
Over the past few years, many obituaries of the newspaper business have been written. The growing tsunami of instant information combined with increasing accessibility to this information has shaken the comfortable “moat-like” business model of newspapers to the core. Few ...