Why Laptops Will Survive in a Tablet World

Tablet computers have been getting plenty of press lately, thanks mainly to the iPad, the newest Apple product to hit the market. Laptops are still the workhorse of the portable computing world, and will most likely weather the tablet storm and perhaps come out ahead of its netbook cousin.

Content Insider #147 - Security

Be Paranoid 'Cuz...They Really Are Out There

We aren't paranoid about online security. We also aren't blase' about it either. It's just healthy caution because we know they're out there. They strike with amazing precision -- ok sloppy, cocky cybercrooks fall over themselves -- to get and use the information. You could simply not get out of bed in the morning and pull the covers over your head but it wouldn't help...they'd find your information and use it. Best course is to follow healthy, common sense security practices and if it looks too good to be true...probably is!!!

Startups!

Being There at the Beginning

Technology makes the world go round, now more than ever. Startups make technology go round. Who knows you might be at the right place, at the right time when someone steps and says, "Ready to be a part of something big? You don't want to sell colored water all of your life do you?" Ok sometimes it works out. Sometimes (most of the time) it doesn't but what have you got to lose but a year or two.

Insider #145 - Content Overload

What We Need is a Storage Jedi

Your smartphone, your notebook/netbook/tablet, your camera. We can't grab enough short/long version video and social media stuff to enjoy every waking moment. Some of it has to carry over and rather than search for it again we store it...somewhere. Then we store it again...and again...and again. In a few years documents, data, content volumes will increase by a whopping factor of 44. Think about it...the world, your world revolves around storage.

Content Insider #143 - Clash of the Titans II

Titans Turf Wars Hurt Us All

The remake of Clash of the Titans gave the PC/CE industry an opportunity for the industry titans to stretch their control over the landscape even more. Titans are taking the opportunity to payback those who bruised their egos, encroached on their "territories" and just did things they didn't like. The Titan Titans -- Apple, Google, Adobe -- are hollering at each other with regularity. The other Titans are mumbling and filing law suits. Everyone -- including governmental agencies around the globe -- is watching closely to see who is doing what and to whom.

Apple's iPad hits store shelves; tests begin

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc's iPad hits store shelves on Saturday after months of intense buzz, giving shoppers their first chance to decide

Special Report: iPad striptease: It`s what`s inside that counts

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The iPad will not hit stores until Saturday, but the race to unlock its mysteries started several weeks ago in San Luis Obispo, a pict

D-Link networks the living room

While the CES show always buzzes with the latest big TVs, 3D, convergence devices, and Microsoft and Intel, some of the home networking products continue to get more creative in dealing with the type of data getting into the home, be it streaming HD or Internet TV.

Australian Films Shine Bright at 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival

G'Day USA: A Showcase of New Australian Cinema

2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival will premiere new films from Australia organized in partnership with G'Day USA, the Australian Consulate General in Los Angeles and Tourism Australia.

Global Forum on Directing

Palm Springs International Film Festival Highlights Contenders for Foreign Oscar

Film directors will discuss their careers, work and the ways in which their films reflect current events and issues in their home countries.

Insider #149 - Game Demographics

She's Young, She's Practiced, She's Good, She's Not Alone

The blood, gore, adrenalin challenges that were unveiled at E3 and enjoyed at ComicCon are fun to look at, easy to hold but are they really the games people want to plunk down their credit cards to own or rent time with? Seems as though the investors, the players who control the controllers have a different idea of a "good" game than the kids who develop them. While mobs of people play educational, informational, stimulating games our kid huddles in his room and mumbles "The Few, The Proud, The Gamers."

Social Media #3

Social media marketing and communications sounds just so glamorous

Part of a series of articles to plainly explain what organizations need to consider and carry out in today's social media.

Content Insider #148 - The iGen

Gen X, Gen Y ... Creating Havoc for Marketers

NO...Doesn't have a thing to do with "that" smartphone...or "that" store...or "that" tablet. It's the next generation. Kids and we mean little kids. That's what today's products are being designed for/targeted at. You happen to buy one...fine. Watch a little, little kid pick up a smartphone. He/she just uses it. They've come pre-wired and we're still trying to figure out how to IM. It's the IGen. They want it instantly. They want to use it instantly. They expect their photos, their video, their music, their stuff immediately when/where/how they want it.

Social Media #2

Knowing What They're Saying

Number two in a series of articles to plainly explain what organizations need to consider and carry out in today's social media. As the online communities increase in size, number, character; companies will refine their activities to develop "word of mouth equity" that can be used to strengthen their understanding of the customer's wants/needs (present/future), produce sales, blunt the effect of cheap store brands compared to name brands and draw upon when problems, issues arise.

Social Media #1

A Company's Friend,A Company's Foe

The reach of the Internet has opened the door for companies to be in direct touch with millions of individuals who want to obtain information and discuss your company, products, services and your capabilities. They have thousands of online outlets to research virtually anything - and anyone - who exists on the planet. The challenge for companies is how to participate with these people, win them over or neutralize their issues.