Respond to the Pre or face becoming Motorola, Apple.
Let’s see how the Pre does in the market before becoming paranoid. P.S. Apple rarely bases its strategy on what the competition is doing. More than likely, the Pre will do whatever the new hot thing in the market does – steal share away from weaker competitors. RIM and Nokia need to be scared more so than Apple.
Beer sales, usually stable during a recession, are down. Why wouldn’t everything else be?
A new survey that detailed trends in venture capital investments in the fourth quarter of 2008 has found that, like the rest of the economy, venture capital and startups are feeling more pain from the deepening global crisis.
It’s almost as if there is belief in VC land that everything will be hunky dory with them while everyone else will be f*d. The dangers of firms run by MBAs who have never seen a downturn or who have never worked in non-ad supported company.
The effects of simple things like stand-up desks and gesturing have clear and measurable returns:
NYT: With multiple classrooms filled with stand-up desks, Marine Elementary finds itself at the leading edge of an idea that experts say continues to gain momentum in education: that furniture should be considered as seriously as instruction, particularly given the rise in childhood obesity and the decline in physical education and recess.
While adult-size workstations that allow for standing are commonplace, options for young students are not, and until now, data on the educational effect of movement in the classroom have been scant.
“We’re talking about furniture here,” she said, “plain old furniture. If it’s that simple, if it turns out to have the positive impacts everyone hopes for, wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing?”
Yes it would!
The Economist: Human language is the subject of endless scientific investigation, but the gestures that accompany speech are a surprisingly neglected area. Susan Goldin-Meadow of the University of Chicago, however, studies gestures carefully—and not out of idle curiosity. Introspection suggests that gesturing not only helps people communicate but also helps them to think. She set out to test this, and specifically to find out whether gestures might be used as an aid to children’s learning. It turns out, as she told the AAAS, that they can.
she divided a group of children into two and asked them to balance equations. One group was asked to gesture while doing so. A second was asked not to. Both groups were then given a lesson in how to solve problems of this sort.
As Dr Goldin-Meadow suspected, the first group learnt more from the lesson than the second.
Gesturing, therefore, clearly does help thought. Indeed, it is so thought-provoking that even the wrong gestures have some value. Perhaps this helps to explain why the arithmetic-intensive profession of banking was invented in Italy.
We need investments like these to re-invent classrooms and education – far better than introducing computers and plasma TVs into classooms. It’s amazing that we haven’t re-thought schooling and school environment (whiteboards, desks) in over 300 years.
Battling iPod, iTunes, “I am Mac”, Google search, Google Apps, iPhone, Zoho is taking its toll. There is a total lack of a cogent strategy and long-term commitment. Why is Ballmer still CEO?
The software giant is taking an excellent product, Equipt, out to the woodshed. And the move has significant ramifications for small-business owners.
Introduced in July, Equipt is the rare Redmond offering: software for individuals and, to a certain extent, small offices that works, as advertised, right out of the box. For $70 a year, users get not one, but three, licenses for software that turns any computer into a do-it-all workhorse. Equipt offers everything: Word, Excel, security software and email.
Why wasn’t this part of Azure?
Apple could get CEO queries at shareholder meeting.
You don’t say. Duh.
Obama’s state of the union: Nice campaign speech, but the campaign is over
We know this, but evidently the GOP doesn’t. Maybe you want to tell them that?
Eradicating poverty? Green technologies? No:
The Lebanese Intellectual Property Unit affiliated with the judicial police forces destroyed about 100,000 pirated CDs and DVDs confiscated from Lebanese vendors and traders.
A Little Out of Place. No wonder my daughter is terrified of Thomas!
A new gossip site.
News Corp’s Slingshot Labs Launches First Public Project: Gossip Site DailyFill
Because the others just engage in unsubstantiated rumors.
Compare with Mac sales (down 6%):
After a visit to Asia to assess the industry, a group of Morgan Stanley analysts led by Kathryn Huberty concluded that the PC market is worse than they initially thought. They lowered their estimate for 2009 and 2010 PC sales. Earlier, Ms. Huberty had predicted that global PC sales would drop 10% this year from last year; now, she’s estimating PC revenue to decline by 24%.
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