Amazon.com is the largest online retailer in America and the company has made huge profits from its ability to sell almost any product to customers all over the world. Over the last year, though, Amazon has begun to focus more on eBooks. The company has even gotten to the point of announcing plans to publish exclusively on and for Amazon.
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then Pinterest has a lot to feel flattered about! In addition to enjoying a lot of press in the online media, Pinterest is the concept that many new social networking sites appear to be trying to imitate. Pinterest allows you to “pin” any image you find on the Internet to your bulletin board on Pinterest to share with your friends and followers. You and your friends may comment on the pictures and the site inspires some very lively discussions.
Sometimes, the very best thing for a technology company is an outsider who understands the products and goals of the company, without necessarily understanding all of the intricacies of the business. It takes a fairly daring company to grant a seat on the Board of Directors to an individual who has vision, but not business experience. In the case of Sigma-Aldrich, one of the world’s leading scientific equipment manufacturers, the company took a calculated risk when it hired Rebecca M. Bergman directly to the Board.
Anyone who has ever started working out after months or years of inactivity knows how difficult it can be to maintain the energy and determination needed to make that workout a habit. Once it becomes habit though, working out is far easier to continue.
It is hard to think of a less cool part of the tower computer than the power supply. For sure, every computer needs a power supply, but the tower computer power supply has traditionally been dark, functional and blockish. Peripheral manufacturer XION is changing that, though, with their High Performance Party Edition line of personal computer power supplies!
Because of how fast the technology sector adapts and changes, sometimes it is hard to remember how significant some of the overnight successes for companies truly were. After all, one year the hot product is an iPad, the next year it is an Amazon Kindle Fire, the next year, the market explodes for an entirely different product. Because the attention span of consumers is so short, you might have forgotten one of the most significant product releases in the last decade. There have been sixty million of them sold since 2004. Give up? It’s the TomTom GPS navigation system. The founder and CEO of TomTom is Harold Goddijn and he is one of the coolest businessmen around.
Most phones have a plastic or aluminum casing. The purpose of the casing is to protect the sensitive inner components by creating a barrier that absorbs any damage. It is also an opportunity for users to personalize their phone by purchasing a special color or by adding a patterned case from another company.
Video cameras have become such a commonplace accessory built into laptop computers that many young people forget that they can still be freestanding units! Far from the clunky video surveillance tools of the film era, new IP cameras use wireless networks to transmit streaming videos from the camera unit to a secure, central router. This allows you to use video cameras with much more discretion than ever before. That does not mean that you should not have a stylish video camera, though. For the perfect blend of style and functionality, the Zonet IP Camera is the IP camera to buy.
There are few phrases less applicable in the tech sector than “if a product is good, it will pretty much sell itself.” If that were the case, the Microsoft Zune would have been phenomenally more successful and Apple would not even be considering a mini-iPad. Instead, without great marketing, a good product can get buried by a competitor. Conversely, with a crack marketing team, an unimpressive product can appear so vital to consumers that it will sell a million units. So, in these times when energy efficiency is increasingly important and technology manufacturers scramble to build better batteries, a Vice President of Marketing for an alternative energy company might seem unnecessary. Nothing could be further for the truth at Tremont Electric, though. That is why Tremont Electric is thrilled to have Jill LeMieux.
Wilmington, North Carolina is the first town in America to implement a newly approved method of wireless Internet access. The White Space network will eventually allow Internet access to be available everywhere, such as rural towns in which broadband Internet companies will not lay wire. Claudville, Virginia had a White Space network during an experimental phase of testing a few years ago, because no companies would provide the area with high-speed Internet, but the Wilmington network is the first to use the new FCC-approved devices after testing.