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That’s the Ticket
Overnight successes rarely live up to that description. So many times in the technology world, someone will have a good idea, everyone starts talking about the possibilities of this greatest next big thing, and suddenly the hot air of hype is everywhere. Then the pinprick of inertia deflates the balloon of over-inflated expectations and yesterday’s…
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2020 Vision with Gary Arlen
For as long as there have been conferences, panelists have been making predictions about technology and its adoption. Gary Arlen of Arlen Communications has seen and made his share of predictions both on panels and as part of his consulting practice. At the Media and Innovations Summit, Arlen moderated a couple of panels and coaxed…
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A Level Headed Approach to New Products
Managing the product lifecycle is a challenge in today’s ultra-competitive and quickly changing world of high-tech. LEVEL Studios helps CE vendors embrace the big picture while creating and implementing the fine details that make a product rise above the competition. More than an ad agency or marketing group, their use of technology allows them to…
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A Secret to the iPad’s Success
It seems like the Newton (remember from the John Sculley-led era of Apple) was just yesterday. Now, some 18 years later, this iPad ancestor is barely a footnote in our march through the progress of technology. The idea was the right one, but there were too many parts of the ecosystem that had yet to…
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What Do a Telephone Tech and a Deputy Sheriff Have in Common?
Brent Christensen, Vice President of the Minnesota Telecom Alliance, brings a fresh perspective to telecommunications. Although born of a telecom family, he followed his father’s footsteps in that his first career was outside of telecom. Starting at the birth of the 1996 deregulation, Brent started as a technician and progressed to the role of general…
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The K-Zone in the Korner
Kodak’s KZone at CES 2010 with the WebTV panel and our interview with Illeana Douglas ViodiTV covered the Parks Associates’ event at the 2010 Consumer Electronics convention and we got some great interviews with people involved with different services, such as energy management, telemedicine. Our interview with Illeana Douglas, filmed at the Kodak booth at…
