Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Digitimes Research: New iPad did not impact notebook shipments in March
Digitimes Research: New iPad did not impact notebook shipments in March: The notebook industry, which was in a downturn, seems to be in recovery in March as hard drive shortage issues have already been resolved, while consumer demand is also rising. In addition, since Apple's New iPad, which launched in late March, did not create an impact on notebook shipments, the result is an optimistic shipment forecast for notebooks in the future, according to Joanne Chien, senior analyst at Digitimes Research.
Pico Projectors to Bolster Future Growth for QuickLogic According to Bloomberg
Pico Projectors to Bolster Future Growth for QuickLogic According to Bloomberg:
Bloomberg is reporting that the outlook for QuickLogic is turning positive. The fabless semiconductor company is developing technologies to improve display performance while also improving power consumption. Its ActicLink II VX CSSP technology has been adopted by companies including Pantech and Kyocera for smartphones. Now, it appears others may join these two for new smartphone and tablet designs.
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Bloomberg is reporting that the outlook for QuickLogic is turning positive. The fabless semiconductor company is developing technologies to improve display performance while also improving power consumption. Its ActicLink II VX CSSP technology has been adopted by companies including Pantech and Kyocera for smartphones. Now, it appears others may join these two for new smartphone and tablet designs.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World
Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World:
With almost a billion friends on Facebook, six billion cell phone accounts globally, and twenty billion "things" from refrigerators to bridge spans to micro-medical devices soon to be wired by Internet, the digital age is upon us in full force. Everyone and everything is connected or soon will be by social media, on mobile platforms, and in the cloud. That puts vast new arrays of assets in play, from crowds to drones, sensors to shoppers. If teams can leverage those assets, hard and soft, digital and real-world, mass them quickly or marshal them with precision accuracy, teams can gain advantage as never before.
The recent Kony2012 viral video offers proof that something special is happening as a result of all this connectedness: digital collaboration has come of age. Garnering 100 million YouTube views in six days — the fastest ever to reach that mark — Kony2012 demonstrated that digital collaboration can create astounding effects not possible just five years ago.
Achieving those effects is no accident. While much is made of "emergent collaboration," Kony2012 went viral by design. The Invisible Children, Inc. team that masterminded the campaign comprised veteran media activists and fundraisers pursuing a common enough goal (a criminal's arrest), but using skills and means unique to the digital age: a viral message, built on a 30-minute video, self-replicating among millions of real-world and online partisans across networks.
Emergent, yes. But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something, a Pictionary-like game. Three weeks after launch, gamers, Facebook friends and Twitter followers had downloaded the Draw Something app 35 million times, created over one billion pictures and were creating three thousand drawings per second. Close interplay between social and mobile platforms accelerated the effect. Collaboration between OMGPOP and Couchbase, its database partner, assured it. Teams scaled the cloud implementation to handle the massive load without downtime. The result: by late March 2012, Draw Something had 15 million daily players and was the Apple AppStore's #1 word game in 84 countries.
Viral-by-design is a unique effect of digital collaboration. The Invisible Children and the OMGPOP teams each achieved it.
Can you? Don't stop at viral-by-design. Today, teams can achieve seven further effects unique to collaboration in the digital age. They are the fuel in the engine of the networked world. Each can confer decisive advantage in the marketplace or the school room, the battlespace or the political race. Each is the new work of teams today.
1. Precision Identity. In the digital world, where you are defines who you are. Everyone has a unique geospatial identity: you and only you were over "there" a minute ago and over "here" now. Competitors know your customers by the stores they visit payday Fridays — and grab their attention and wallet on Thursdays. Strike teams know insurgents by the mud huts they visit, then find and disassemble terrorist networks faster. Precision identity is a capability. Do you have it?
2. Mass Customization. From Nikes to K-12 curricula, drone strikes to personalized medicines, teams can mass produce unique solutions for anyone. The truly disruptive move in K-12 education, for example, will be personalized curricula uniquely customized student-by-student. Love skateboards? Here's the physics of staying on your deck jumping a 360-degree ollie while riding fakie. Yes, you can download an app for that!
3. Common Operating Pictures. Dozens of systems and networks tell some of the stories about your firm. None tell the whole story. Now you can line them all up, from social media, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, marketplace measurement, sales, and distribution. Share a total view of performance at a single point in time with partners and colleagues so everyone is on the same page. You won't be the first to get this view. Don't be the last.
4. Rapid Innovation/Move-to-Market Cycles. "Collaboration with customers slows me down." Wrong: collaboration with customers speeds your move to market. You avoid rework and get value in the hands of users fast. Just ask Steve Ellis, EVP at Wells Fargo, whose team took Wells's wholesale services online in a year. "Fastest uptake I ever saw," he said. The result: spectacular growth in transactions, from $1 trillion to $11 trillion over a decade.
5. Crowd-Sourced Creation. Whether online (think: Wikipedia) or on the fly (think: Twitter), in design (think: Local Motors' Rally Fighter car) or in finance (think: Kickstarter), millions contributing a little make crowds smarter, richer and happier, faster. Love the crowd; it will love you right back.
6. Real-Time Situational Awareness. What's going on in the factory across the globe, on the store-shelf across town, or with that crowd straight ahead? You can achieve 360/real-time awareness of your situation now, from remote sensing to location awareness. By the way — you already feature in someone else's 360 "SA". But you knew that!
7. Predicting the Future Faster, Sooner. "Big data" analytics with real-world guides let you see big-picture patterns and micro-trends with astonishing precision, in time to seize the day or head off disaster. That knack market leaders have for knowing what will happen next, and when? That's by design.
Transforming effects to results requires strategy, management, and even more collaboration. Barack Obama is President of the United States today because David Plouffe stitched together Obama2008's team of campaign veterans, e-commerce pros, and social media experts. That team achieved all eight digital-age effects, supercharged partisans for age-old purposes — raise money, knock on doors, and get out the vote — and gained victory on November 4, 2008. "The big difference this year is not the technology," Joe Rospars, the campaign's social media chief said. "It's the coordination."
Effects alone never guarantee results. Despite Kony2012, Joseph Kony remains free. But make no mistake. There's plenty of room on history's ash heap for those who assume this all happens by chance.
For teams that can attain these effects by capability — by design — watch out, world.
This post is part of the HBR Insight Center on The Secrets of Great Teams.
With almost a billion friends on Facebook, six billion cell phone accounts globally, and twenty billion "things" from refrigerators to bridge spans to micro-medical devices soon to be wired by Internet, the digital age is upon us in full force. Everyone and everything is connected or soon will be by social media, on mobile platforms, and in the cloud. That puts vast new arrays of assets in play, from crowds to drones, sensors to shoppers. If teams can leverage those assets, hard and soft, digital and real-world, mass them quickly or marshal them with precision accuracy, teams can gain advantage as never before.
The recent Kony2012 viral video offers proof that something special is happening as a result of all this connectedness: digital collaboration has come of age. Garnering 100 million YouTube views in six days — the fastest ever to reach that mark — Kony2012 demonstrated that digital collaboration can create astounding effects not possible just five years ago.
Achieving those effects is no accident. While much is made of "emergent collaboration," Kony2012 went viral by design. The Invisible Children, Inc. team that masterminded the campaign comprised veteran media activists and fundraisers pursuing a common enough goal (a criminal's arrest), but using skills and means unique to the digital age: a viral message, built on a 30-minute video, self-replicating among millions of real-world and online partisans across networks.
Emergent, yes. But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something, a Pictionary-like game. Three weeks after launch, gamers, Facebook friends and Twitter followers had downloaded the Draw Something app 35 million times, created over one billion pictures and were creating three thousand drawings per second. Close interplay between social and mobile platforms accelerated the effect. Collaboration between OMGPOP and Couchbase, its database partner, assured it. Teams scaled the cloud implementation to handle the massive load without downtime. The result: by late March 2012, Draw Something had 15 million daily players and was the Apple AppStore's #1 word game in 84 countries.
Viral-by-design is a unique effect of digital collaboration. The Invisible Children and the OMGPOP teams each achieved it.
Can you? Don't stop at viral-by-design. Today, teams can achieve seven further effects unique to collaboration in the digital age. They are the fuel in the engine of the networked world. Each can confer decisive advantage in the marketplace or the school room, the battlespace or the political race. Each is the new work of teams today.
1. Precision Identity. In the digital world, where you are defines who you are. Everyone has a unique geospatial identity: you and only you were over "there" a minute ago and over "here" now. Competitors know your customers by the stores they visit payday Fridays — and grab their attention and wallet on Thursdays. Strike teams know insurgents by the mud huts they visit, then find and disassemble terrorist networks faster. Precision identity is a capability. Do you have it?
2. Mass Customization. From Nikes to K-12 curricula, drone strikes to personalized medicines, teams can mass produce unique solutions for anyone. The truly disruptive move in K-12 education, for example, will be personalized curricula uniquely customized student-by-student. Love skateboards? Here's the physics of staying on your deck jumping a 360-degree ollie while riding fakie. Yes, you can download an app for that!
3. Common Operating Pictures. Dozens of systems and networks tell some of the stories about your firm. None tell the whole story. Now you can line them all up, from social media, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, marketplace measurement, sales, and distribution. Share a total view of performance at a single point in time with partners and colleagues so everyone is on the same page. You won't be the first to get this view. Don't be the last.
4. Rapid Innovation/Move-to-Market Cycles. "Collaboration with customers slows me down." Wrong: collaboration with customers speeds your move to market. You avoid rework and get value in the hands of users fast. Just ask Steve Ellis, EVP at Wells Fargo, whose team took Wells's wholesale services online in a year. "Fastest uptake I ever saw," he said. The result: spectacular growth in transactions, from $1 trillion to $11 trillion over a decade.
5. Crowd-Sourced Creation. Whether online (think: Wikipedia) or on the fly (think: Twitter), in design (think: Local Motors' Rally Fighter car) or in finance (think: Kickstarter), millions contributing a little make crowds smarter, richer and happier, faster. Love the crowd; it will love you right back.
6. Real-Time Situational Awareness. What's going on in the factory across the globe, on the store-shelf across town, or with that crowd straight ahead? You can achieve 360/real-time awareness of your situation now, from remote sensing to location awareness. By the way — you already feature in someone else's 360 "SA". But you knew that!
7. Predicting the Future Faster, Sooner. "Big data" analytics with real-world guides let you see big-picture patterns and micro-trends with astonishing precision, in time to seize the day or head off disaster. That knack market leaders have for knowing what will happen next, and when? That's by design.
Transforming effects to results requires strategy, management, and even more collaboration. Barack Obama is President of the United States today because David Plouffe stitched together Obama2008's team of campaign veterans, e-commerce pros, and social media experts. That team achieved all eight digital-age effects, supercharged partisans for age-old purposes — raise money, knock on doors, and get out the vote — and gained victory on November 4, 2008. "The big difference this year is not the technology," Joe Rospars, the campaign's social media chief said. "It's the coordination."
Effects alone never guarantee results. Despite Kony2012, Joseph Kony remains free. But make no mistake. There's plenty of room on history's ash heap for those who assume this all happens by chance.
For teams that can attain these effects by capability — by design — watch out, world.
This post is part of the HBR Insight Center on The Secrets of Great Teams.
Apple and Google’s OS share slides in March as BlackBerry shows narrow gain
Apple and Google’s OS share slides in March as BlackBerry shows narrow gain:
The smartphone and tablet landscapes remained largely unchanged in March as far as operating system usage share is concerned. New data from analytics firm Net Applications shows that the collective operating system share owned by Apple’s iPhone and iPad inched down to 59.87% in March from 60.59% in February. iOS’s share had skyrocketed in February as it continued to gain after losing share ahead of the holidays. Google’s Android smartphones and tablets dipped as well in March according to Net Applications’s data, dropping to 18.66% from 19.02% in February. Symbian stayed flat at 2.77% in March, and the only mobile operating system to show gains during the month was RIM’s BlackBerry OS, which climbed a fraction of a point to 2.21% from 2.15% in February. A chart showcasing Net Applications’s data follows below.
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The smartphone and tablet landscapes remained largely unchanged in March as far as operating system usage share is concerned. New data from analytics firm Net Applications shows that the collective operating system share owned by Apple’s iPhone and iPad inched down to 59.87% in March from 60.59% in February. iOS’s share had skyrocketed in February as it continued to gain after losing share ahead of the holidays. Google’s Android smartphones and tablets dipped as well in March according to Net Applications’s data, dropping to 18.66% from 19.02% in February. Symbian stayed flat at 2.77% in March, and the only mobile operating system to show gains during the month was RIM’s BlackBerry OS, which climbed a fraction of a point to 2.21% from 2.15% in February. A chart showcasing Net Applications’s data follows below.
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Wrapsol Ultra film protects your iPad’s Retina display, at a cost
Wrapsol Ultra film protects your iPad’s Retina display, at a cost:
On the whole, I’m not a fan of adding protection to my mobile devices. Part of the reason I buy a product is because I appreciate its design and materials, so covering those up with a $15 piece of silicone has always pained me. This preference has lead to some dings and dents and possibly [...]
On the whole, I’m not a fan of adding protection to my mobile devices. Part of the reason I buy a product is because I appreciate its design and materials, so covering those up with a $15 piece of silicone has always pained me. This preference has lead to some dings and dents and possibly [...]
iPhone outselling all other smartphones combined on AT&T & Sprint
iPhone outselling all other smartphones combined on AT&T & Sprint:
Apple’s ubiquitous iPhone is now outselling all other smartphones combined, including prominent Android devices, on AT&T and Sprint, according to new data from Canaccord Genuity.
“We believe iPhones are outselling all other smartphones combined at Sprint and AT&T and selling at roughly equal volume to all Android smartphones at Verizon,” Canaccord Genuity analyst told AllThingsD today.
That’s quite the achievement for Apple’s popularity. The iPhone came out on top even with strong Android challengers like Samsung’s Galaxy S II and Galaxy Nexus phones and other Android devices. Sprint sold 1.8 million iPhone 4S devices last quarter while AT&T activated 7.6 million iPhone units in its last quarter.
The iPhone has been successful around the world, but the U.S. is its biggest stronghold. Canaccord Genuity said that Apple’s biggest threat for market share in the near term for Europe and Asia would be Samsung, which posted strong gains in the “seasonally weak” March quarter.
Click the table below for a more detailed look at the carrier smartphone share data:
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Apple’s ubiquitous iPhone is now outselling all other smartphones combined, including prominent Android devices, on AT&T and Sprint, according to new data from Canaccord Genuity.
“We believe iPhones are outselling all other smartphones combined at Sprint and AT&T and selling at roughly equal volume to all Android smartphones at Verizon,” Canaccord Genuity analyst told AllThingsD today.
That’s quite the achievement for Apple’s popularity. The iPhone came out on top even with strong Android challengers like Samsung’s Galaxy S II and Galaxy Nexus phones and other Android devices. Sprint sold 1.8 million iPhone 4S devices last quarter while AT&T activated 7.6 million iPhone units in its last quarter.
The iPhone has been successful around the world, but the U.S. is its biggest stronghold. Canaccord Genuity said that Apple’s biggest threat for market share in the near term for Europe and Asia would be Samsung, which posted strong gains in the “seasonally weak” March quarter.
Click the table below for a more detailed look at the carrier smartphone share data:
Filed under: mobile
Redesigned iMacs may feature anti-reflective glass displays
Redesigned iMacs may feature anti-reflective glass displays:
A redesigned family of Apple’s iMac computers may feature anti-reflective displays, DigiTimes reported on Monday. The Taiwanese publication claimed that G-Tech is ramping up its production capacity of cover glass from 1.8 million units a month to 3 million units, and the company is estimated to produce up to 30% of the total cover glass orders for Apple’s iPad in 2012. According to “industry sources,” G-Tech is also expected to supply anti-reflective glass for Apple’s iMac lineup, which will expand the company’s growth within the industry. The next-generation iMacs are rumored to arrive in the second half of the year, and they will reportedly be slimmer and lighter than the current models.
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A redesigned family of Apple’s iMac computers may feature anti-reflective displays, DigiTimes reported on Monday. The Taiwanese publication claimed that G-Tech is ramping up its production capacity of cover glass from 1.8 million units a month to 3 million units, and the company is estimated to produce up to 30% of the total cover glass orders for Apple’s iPad in 2012. According to “industry sources,” G-Tech is also expected to supply anti-reflective glass for Apple’s iMac lineup, which will expand the company’s growth within the industry. The next-generation iMacs are rumored to arrive in the second half of the year, and they will reportedly be slimmer and lighter than the current models.
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