Tag archive: early adopters

If you’re like many, hours of every day are devoted to surfing the pages of top-ranked social network Facebook. However, checking friends’ and foes’ status updates can only provide so many hours of entertainment. So how to amuse yourself in-between checking for new photos, quizzes and other bite-sized distractions? Thankfully, that’s where apps, or “applications” – pint-sized software programs… Read More

Once upon a time PCs were terrible gaming platforms. *gasp* Why, you ask? Well, beside the obvious lack of horsepower or gaming-centric graphics accelerators, the CPUs were simply not capable of processing in hardware the necessary floating-point math required for today’s games.   Starting with the 80386, consumer desktop PCs were the first to benefit from a symbiotic, pseudo dual-core technology that included a second… Read More

A new market report from JupiterResearch finds that while teends represent only about three percent of online sales, they will nonetheless account for $3 billion in online purchases during 2006. The new report, “Teen Online Shoppers: Reaching Teen Influencers and Early Adopters Through Consumer-Created Content” also finds that comparatively few teens make online purchases independent of their parents, with 83 percent reporting… Read More

Portable Media Player sales have had a slow start and mixed reviews. Both iRiver's and Creative Labs first players received only average marks from the industries top publications. But as with every new product, time will tell if the fad will pick up or fade away. TDG Research's report may be a little preliminary to this type of product, but its worth checking out. Below is the summary of their report: “Despite the… Read More

“The televisions can access the base stations remotely over a wired or wireless connection so that a traveler can reach his or her base station to watch local television shows even when far from home. The televisions can also access content from a device connected to the base station–letting them play whatever they left in the DVD player before going on the road, for instance. LocationFree TV is part of a larger Sony… Read More