Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
Category: Tech Trends
In addition to all the hoopla surrounding Microsoft's Silverlight video on NBCOlympics.com, the enthusiasm over the aquatic competitions seems to have generated a renewed interest in the camera technology used to track swimmers, divers, and other Olympians as they compete. The Wall Street Journal this week published "Now Diving: Sir Isaac Newton" about the DiveCam … Continue reading Olympics Coverage Rediscovers Garrett Brown’s Innovations
Saul Hansell has a column in the New York Times titled "The Lessons From the Kindle’s Success" that points out that Amazon.com's Kindle appears to not be the flop that many expected (and that most earlier ebook products have been). Amazon doesn't report numbers for Kindle sales, but the Times piece cites Citibank’s Mark Mahaney … Continue reading NY Times to Jeff Bezos: Balance Integration with Openness
As I've discussed several times recently, despite all the earlier gloomy predictions of the declining value of content, recent moves by major media companies including Sony and Time Warner indicate a belief in the value of entertainment content -- music, movies, and (maybe even) online entertainment. This is, I have argued, particularly the case when … Continue reading The Content Chatter Continues. Next Up: Apple?
Journalist and blogger Scott Kirsner, who frequently writes on topics at the intersection of movies and technology, has published an early edition of his forthcoming book Inventing the Movies. Subtitled "Hollywood's Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo, from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs," the book is a fascinating case study in the difficulties … Continue reading “Inventing the Movies”: The Tension between Technological Progress and Resistance to Change
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