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.
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.
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.
If you use your computer solely for business purposes and look for the most efficient and inexpensive tool possible, the odds are you do not truly understand the idea of a premium keyboard. There are keyboards that cost consumers hundreds of dollars because they are specialized to niche demographics that have unique demands for how they interface with their computers. Most of these premium keyboards are marketed to the antithesis of business computer users: gamers. Arguably the coolest, most powerful premium keyboard is the SteelSeries Merc Stealth keyboard and it is a gamer’s best friend when it comes to interface devices.
Anyone who works with digital photographs knows that having great photographic equipment is only half of what one needs to create amazing digital images. In many ways, the quality of your digital camera is not as important as the quality of your photo manipulation software. Adobe has long been the leader in digital photograph manipulation software, with its Photoshop software becoming synonymous with photo manipulation. Once again, Adobe is raising the bar with its Lightroom 4 software.
For those who might not have heard of it yet, there is a social network challenging Facebook for supremacy on the Internet. It’s not Google+, either! The social network is called Diaspora and it is an open-source alternative to Facebook that was founded on the belief that users ought to control their information and social network experience. Diaspora is a good idea that has been plagued by problems, not the least of which are a lack of name recognition (outside the hacker community) and the suicide last November of one of the company’s four co-founders, Ilya Zhitomirskiy. Despite the setbacks, Diaspora is poised to break out into popular culture. If it does, it will no doubt be in part because of Rosanna Yau.
It is hard to imagine a cooler connector than the USB port. Seriously, USB connectors truly live up to their name as being a Universal port. USB flash drives can be cool and stylish and the ability to connect them to virtually any computer device has made the exchange of data and media exceptionally easy. In fact, with so many different devices that use a USB port and contain a male USB jack, you are much more likely to run out of USB ports than ever before! With the USB hub from iBuffalo, fear of not having enough USB ports may be safely set aside.