Monthly Archives: May, 2008
HDTV Market Penetration in the UK – Commentary
Floating around a variety of homes whilst on a family vacation has revealed that (from a small sample of 6 homes) that each home had a brand spanking new HDTV. There was not a sign of the old CRT. The most interesting thing though is that only one of these homes made use of true [...]
XO getting some success
It seems the OLPC project has started to get some success, but it is not clear whether this is due to the use of Windows over the Open Source equivalent. This is the one piece of information missing from the BBC News report. Certainly the use of XP makes the device much broader in interest. [...]
OLPC and Windows XP: If you cannot beat them, join them
The news that Negroponte’s OLPC has finally delivered on Windows XP should give the product a boost although I have my doubts about the performance that can be expected on such a low powered machine. After all, the EeePC offers a faster processor with more RAM and more storage as well and it suffers a [...]
What would the world be like without Flash Memory?
From retrothing, a picture of Kodak’s first Digital Camera. Is this what the world would be like without flash memory devices? As I wait for an 8GB SDHC card to be delivered, I think that the world is a better place with flash than having a load of cassette tapes running around. I would hate [...]
Valiant Attempts to recover Mobile TV
There are some people thinking about how to recover the situation with Mobile TV, although in my view it is not a good start, to start from behind. The article has a number of good thoughts for the US market, but this does look very much like a product in search of a market.