Best Quarter in Apple history – 56 percent increase in laptop shipments
“Looking forward, 2007 is likely to be one of the most exciting new product years in Apple’s history.”Apple is basking in the sales of products that appeal to people who want technology that crosses productivity, entertainment, and creative bounds…. It was interesting to see the following report in today’s Wall Street Journal:Shipments of iPods climbed to 8.7 million, up 35% from 6.5 million a year ago. The company said it shipped 1.6 million Macintosh computers, up 30% from a year earlier, in the pivotal back-to-school season.
Robert Scoble wonders if Facebook is worth as much as YouTube
Yesterday Rober Scoble questioned and debated the worth of Facebook. Lots of good comments on his post. While I don’t doubt social media’s value, I wonder if Facebook will be a flash in the pan. They have moved away from their core audience to gather more eyes. I question if the fickle 17-24 year old […]
Top market for Tablet PCs — Education
We expect big things from this product both in education and in consumer retail.”Education is a nice fit since students use highlighters and add notes. Just need to get those books in digital format.The total market size for Tablet PCs is still a tiny niche with an expected 4 or 5 million total unit shipments by 2009, down from a far more aggressive 14 million units expected (and this has been ratcheted down each year since the launch in the fall 2002).
Is the Facebook’s flash going, going, gone?
Now it appears that the Facebook is opening the doors to old gomers everywhere (just like me)…. If user of Facebook were up in arms about privacy for notification of wall postings and other automated “feeds,” just imagine how the net generation will feel when they have old people everywhere peeping into their inside world.
Facebook adds new ways to summarize and notify what’s new
By adding the News Feed and Mini Feed features to Facebook, members can now see what’s been happening since they last logged in without spending lots of time browsing around…. In my research directly with students and the research coming from the 2005 ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology, key areas students expect technology to provide include: convenience, connection, and control.
iPods and Facebook challenge beer on campus
I found this interesting. iPods picked up a lot of points over the past year. And even though iPods are on top of beer, the iPod picked up points somewhere else because beer is really only a close second. Not surprisingly for me, Facebook appears out of nowhere and ties beer in the Top 5 […]
Dan Cane picks up SIIA CODiE Award
Dan Cane has always said that he’s “the biggest fan of Backpack.” It only seemed fitting that Dan would be the one that attended and picked up the 2006 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award. Blackboard Backpack won the category for Best Education Technology Solution for Productivity/Creativity. As I’ve written before, Agilix has […]
Scott quoted in the Desert News
Deseret Morning News, Saturday, May 27, 2006 Neumont honors first graduates By Erin Stewart Deseret Morning News Neumont University sent its first graduating class into the workforce Friday, marking the third anniversary of the school’s founding. The university tweaked the traditional four-year degree into a more hands-on 30 -month curriculum just for students earning bachelor’s […]
Neumont University Graduation
I attended Neumont University Graduation. My brother just completed his Computer Science degree at Neumont. Neumont provides a focused education experience with mentoring and peer reviews and real-world, project-based learning. Scott graduated as Valedictorian. I have attached his speech below as an MP3 audio track.
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