Trends in the News
- Cellphone Ads Are Easier Pitch in China (WSJ, Jan. 4)
China's pool of mobile-phone users has proved a lucrative market for companies peddling everything that can be distributed wirelessly, from songs to pictures to games. Advertisers are looking to cash in, too.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116787863206166699.html?mod=technology_featured_stories_hs
- ‘Segway’ scooters banned from public use in Netherlands (USA Today, Jan. 2)
Dutch police banned scooters made by Segway from all public roads, bike paths and walkways in the Netherlands as of Jan. 1. Segway Nederland director Piet Kruijt said the company was "completely ambushed" by the decision, first announced by national police on Nov. 27, 2006.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2007-01-02-segways-netherlands_x.htm
- Survey: The next tech mogul won’t be American (USA Today, Jan. 2)
Seattle produced technology great Bill Gates, but where will his successor come from? Not here, most Americans said in a recent survey. Nearly half of Americans said that the next great technology leader will come from China or Japan, while just one in five believe he or she will hail from the United States.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-02-tech-survey_x.htm
- It’s O.K. to Fall Behind the Technology Curve (NYT, Dec. 30)
Paying less in the future for a device that can do more is now taken for granted when shopping for consumer electronics. Gone is last century’s theory of planned obsolescence in which manufacturers designed and built products that would quickly wear out and have to be replaced.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/technology/30money.html?ref=technology
- Tech Hot Growth 50 (BusinessWeek, Dec. 22)
In recent years, with few exceptions, technology companies have appeared to be in a rut from which they couldn't extricate themselves. Still recovering from the bubble-bursting years of 2000 and 2001, longtime tech sector bellwethers such as Intel, Dell, IBM, and Microsoft all found their growth restrained by an economy in which tech spending has been growing at a much slower rate than in the past and selling prices are being relentlessly tamped downward.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2006/tc20061221_231098.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_today%27s+top+stories
- Verizon nabs high-speed China link (Fortune, Dec. 18)
Verizon signed an agreement with five Asian telecom companies to build the first high-speed, trans-Pacific undersea cable system directly linking the United States and China.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/18/news/international/verizon.reut/index.htm?postversion=2006121807
- Cellphone Ads Are Easier Pitch in China (WSJ, Jan. 4)
China's pool of mobile-phone users has proved a lucrative market for companies peddling everything that can be distributed wirelessly, from songs to pictures to games. Advertisers are looking to cash in, too.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116787863206166699.html?mod=technology_featured_stories_hs
- ‘Segway’ scooters banned from public use in Netherlands (USA Today, Jan. 2)
Dutch police banned scooters made by Segway from all public roads, bike paths and walkways in the Netherlands as of Jan. 1. Segway Nederland director Piet Kruijt said the company was "completely ambushed" by the decision, first announced by national police on Nov. 27, 2006.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2007-01-02-segways-netherlands_x.htm
- Survey: The next tech mogul won’t be American (USA Today, Jan. 2)
Seattle produced technology great Bill Gates, but where will his successor come from? Not here, most Americans said in a recent survey. Nearly half of Americans said that the next great technology leader will come from China or Japan, while just one in five believe he or she will hail from the United States.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-02-tech-survey_x.htm
- It’s O.K. to Fall Behind the Technology Curve (NYT, Dec. 30)
Paying less in the future for a device that can do more is now taken for granted when shopping for consumer electronics. Gone is last century’s theory of planned obsolescence in which manufacturers designed and built products that would quickly wear out and have to be replaced.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/technology/30money.html?ref=technology
- Tech Hot Growth 50 (BusinessWeek, Dec. 22)
In recent years, with few exceptions, technology companies have appeared to be in a rut from which they couldn't extricate themselves. Still recovering from the bubble-bursting years of 2000 and 2001, longtime tech sector bellwethers such as Intel, Dell, IBM, and Microsoft all found their growth restrained by an economy in which tech spending has been growing at a much slower rate than in the past and selling prices are being relentlessly tamped downward.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2006/tc20061221_231098.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_today%27s+top+stories
- Verizon nabs high-speed China link (Fortune, Dec. 18)
Verizon signed an agreement with five Asian telecom companies to build the first high-speed, trans-Pacific undersea cable system directly linking the United States and China.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/18/news/international/verizon.reut/index.htm?postversion=2006121807
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