GLG News by Personal Computing Manufacturing Professionals

Blu-ray is an impressive, but only an evolutionary, improvement in picture quality. It doesn’t offer lifestyle or use model changes, it costs more and has fewer titles available than standard DVD. Picture quality improvement is compelling to movie and video aficionados, but to the rest of,...

Momentum is pulling down CC fast.  Closing these stores is certainly not going to stop that, and will likely accelerate it.

Google has potentally created another new industry around books that were mostly only gathering dust. A cornucopia of information is being made available, and it's only small change for Google.

Credit managers are extremely nervous right now about many things outside of their control.  One thing they can control is limiting their risk.  Making the decision to cut off, or fatally limit, the credit of a long standing and large customer like Circuit City may be a hard decision to make,...

Study after study has proven that shoppers who browse, search and research online first and then buy in-store, spend more and return less.   The fact that 75% of multi-channel consumers prefer to move from clicks to bricks when shopping, while 7% reverse the direction is VERY good news for retailers,...

In addition to loosing hundreds of millions of dollars and significant market share, letting things get so bad for so long has resulted in CC loosing control - now it's largely up to others if CC will survive.  1. Vendors - at this point vendors are on top – without vendor support there...

The Netflix Set Top Box(STB) provides an alternative to the AppleTV/iTunes, TiVO/Amazon, X-Box360/X-Box Live and PS3/Playstation Network combinations. The problem with these alternatives so far has not actually been in the devices, but rather in the other 2 main dimensions, i.e. the content and the...

The existing agencies of ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations) and BARB (British Audience Research Bureau) naturally want to extend their franchise to any form a measureable medium, but don't seem willing to accept that technology implicit in the delivery platform already produces all the answers. Improbably,...

1) Little hard evidence of a consumer desire to pay for live mobile Tv from various trials such as the O2/nokia/Arquiva experiment 2) Most of us just want to be able to watch the many hours of content stored on our PVRs and replaced before we have time to view it 3) Live broadcasters continue to...

This is IBM spinning on Al Gore's presumptions and playing green politics. Users clearly want the security, versatility and convenience of managing their own systems. Numerous virtual hosting solutions already exist for those that are willing to ride coach on someone else's packed 737.