Very interested in what Apple may (or may not) announce as a new product entry in the computer tablet/reader category. Apparently I'm not the only curious party as the recent BusinessWeek piece "Five Ways Apple's Tablet May Change the World" shows.
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Not to completely shun the PC world... there's also been a good amount of (mostly positive) press around the recent Microsoft launch of the Windows 7 operating system. Two different product review pieces were from the (now departed from BusinessWeek) Tech & You writer Stephen Wildstrom. From the Oct 26 issue was "Win 7: Microsoft Gets It Right (Finally)" and the Nov 9 issue "Multitouch Moves to the Big Screen: PCs"... about how Win 7 enables multi-touch capabilities.
Going back to the "maybe forthcoming" Apple tablet, Wildstrom wrote "The Hypothetical Apple Tablet: User Input Will Be the Key" a few weeks ago on his personal blog.
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Also related to said hypothetical Apple tablet was this BusinessWeek piece on the Nook e-reader from Barnes & Noble. Will be very interesting to see how products such as the Nook, the new e-reader from Plastic Logic or Kindle from Amazon compare and compete with whatever Apple may bring to the show.
Showing posts with label Stephen Wildstrom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Wildstrom. Show all posts
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Sunday, September 13, 2009
BusinessWeek Best Places to Launch a Career / PCs vs Macs / Books
Excellent content from the Sept 14 BusinessWeek on the "Best Places to Launch a Career".
The annual special report gets into a lot of interesting concepts that companies can offer new hires... especially in the area of opportunities for growth and employee value to the corporation.
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Two other categories of writing that I found interesting in recent Business issues... and which I'll link to here for lack of them being truly compelling enough for their own post:
PC vs Mac & Windows 7 vs a slide rule: In it's Sept 7 issue, BusinessWeek technology columnist Stephen Wildstrom wrote "Snow Leopard: An Upgrade in Camouflage" about new the Mac operating system from Apple.
In the vein of "equal coverage to both sides"... from the Sept 14 issue, Peter Burrows wrote "Will Windows 7 Reboot PC Sales?" and Wildstrom penned "Windows 7: Upgrading Can Be Hard to Do". Releasing Oct 22, Win 7 replaces the much reviled Windows Vista and it will be interesting to see both how Microsoft prices it and how good it is.
Books of Interest: Two mentions of interesting books in the last few issues of BW. "Acting the Part of a Leader" is excerpted from "The Essential Bennis" by... Warren Bennis.
Probably of more interest to me is "Borrowing Brillance" by David Kord Murray... and reviewed here. The idea behind Murray's book is that great business ideas frequently come from cherry picking other ideas and simply adapting them.
The annual special report gets into a lot of interesting concepts that companies can offer new hires... especially in the area of opportunities for growth and employee value to the corporation.
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Two other categories of writing that I found interesting in recent Business issues... and which I'll link to here for lack of them being truly compelling enough for their own post:
PC vs Mac & Windows 7 vs a slide rule: In it's Sept 7 issue, BusinessWeek technology columnist Stephen Wildstrom wrote "Snow Leopard: An Upgrade in Camouflage" about new the Mac operating system from Apple.
In the vein of "equal coverage to both sides"... from the Sept 14 issue, Peter Burrows wrote "Will Windows 7 Reboot PC Sales?" and Wildstrom penned "Windows 7: Upgrading Can Be Hard to Do". Releasing Oct 22, Win 7 replaces the much reviled Windows Vista and it will be interesting to see both how Microsoft prices it and how good it is.
Books of Interest: Two mentions of interesting books in the last few issues of BW. "Acting the Part of a Leader" is excerpted from "The Essential Bennis" by... Warren Bennis.
Probably of more interest to me is "Borrowing Brillance" by David Kord Murray... and reviewed here. The idea behind Murray's book is that great business ideas frequently come from cherry picking other ideas and simply adapting them.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Amazon & the Kindle
Couple of interesting articles I've seen lately about Amazon. From the June 22 issue of Time Magazine comes "Is Amazon Taking Over the Book Business?" by the very solid Time writers Lev Grossman and Andrea Sachs. It's just a fascinating look at a company that's remade themselves over the years and is dominating and now guiding an industry through their share of the online book sale market and introduction of the Kindle reader (and it's new iterations).
Not quite as wide ranging, but still an interesting product review is "Amazon's New Kindle DX Means Business" by Stephen Wildstrom in the June 22 BusinessWeek.
I wrote previously about written content online and the wireless reader market that Amazon practically created in this blog post... interesting topic.
Not quite as wide ranging, but still an interesting product review is "Amazon's New Kindle DX Means Business" by Stephen Wildstrom in the June 22 BusinessWeek.
I wrote previously about written content online and the wireless reader market that Amazon practically created in this blog post... interesting topic.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Product Review Pieces from BusinessWeek
Below are four different product review type articles from BusinessWeek over the last few months. They come from four different issues and while three of them are more typical reviews (from the "Opinion" section by Stephen Wildstrom), the fourth bears inclusion as it's about the most impactful facet of a new product.
The three Wildstrom reviews are "Amazon's Kindle 2: Delight Is in the Details" and then two on HP laptop computers... first "HP's Mini 1000 Mi Takes Netbooks a Big Step Forward" on the company's newest netbook and second "HP's dv2 Is a Bigger, Better, Budget Ultrathin" on a traditionally sized laptop that is still in the "untralight" category.
The fourth piece is by Peter Burrows and titled "The Apple App Monster" about the app store and how it's helped create a whole new category of technology... with the iPhone as the category leader.
The three Wildstrom reviews are "Amazon's Kindle 2: Delight Is in the Details" and then two on HP laptop computers... first "HP's Mini 1000 Mi Takes Netbooks a Big Step Forward" on the company's newest netbook and second "HP's dv2 Is a Bigger, Better, Budget Ultrathin" on a traditionally sized laptop that is still in the "untralight" category.
The fourth piece is by Peter Burrows and titled "The Apple App Monster" about the app store and how it's helped create a whole new category of technology... with the iPhone as the category leader.
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