- HP filing suit against Oracle over hiring Mark Hurd.
- Google TV coming in 2011.
- Craigslist in the news about hookers. Read my PCMag column on the subject at www.pcmag.com.
- Smart phone future: they get it wrong.
- BP spent millions on Google search results.
- Samsung getting into the processor game. Intel lurks.
- ACLU sues USA over laptops being scanned at the border.
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Hope Google does better with their TV device than the latest Apple TV device.
Gosh, I really want a TV with a keyboard and mouse.
A demo of Google TV at about 32 minutes.
“Google TV coming in 2011”; “Is this the beginning of the end for TV as we know it? Cable?”
Speaking about the end. Why bother reinventing Tv, when the world’s supposed to come to an end (yes, another “Y3k+ prediction”) in 2012. That will probably be the year that Hillary Clinton runs for President. And Oprah runs for VP. So the world might as well end.
Tv as we now know it will eventually “die”. It was predicted on Star Trek TNG, as happening sometime in the mid 21st century. Probably because it can’t economically sustain itself using the current advertising sponsor model.
And similar to how printed newspapers are failing. Because people want the news delivered to them, either audibly (no reading) and/or by specific topics. No hunting for items wedged between the advertising. Tv started its own demise when it began increasing advertising time, per time slot. It once was less than 10 minutes an hour. Now it’s 19 minutes an hour on average. This was to help pay for all the salary increases. That mainly when to the “talent”. And producers and directors. Actual production costs have been kept down, by filming in Canada and Australia, where the labor is cheaper. On in Florida, where there are plenty of immigrants working for low wages. Or college kids are interning for the creds, at some Orlando studio.
But even with all that. And creating so many of these “reality” shows, on the cheap. Tv is barely hanging on. Direct to DVD will probably and Internet, will soon overtake network Tv’s distribution dominance. I’d just as soon wait 8 to 12 months to watch a series on rented DVDs. Than pay for cable or dish, to see a lot of advertising and other things I’m not interested in. It was predicted that regular Tv would end up airing only pilot episodes, of new series. Or of new series seasons. And the rest you’d have to pay for the DVD box sets. That was predicted five years ago. And my local Bestbuy store is at least 1/3 Tv DVDs. Probably closer to 1/2.
People no longer have the patience to sit thru a lot of commercials. Or put up with mid season reruns, and special event preemption. Like sports, politics, and gifting holidays. They want to see their 13 to 24 episodes, as quickly as possible, at their convenience. Not the TV network executives’ scheduling whims. And like the RIAA. The Tv industry can fight the alternatives for a while. But eventually they’ll lose the battle. Just as AM radio, lost the battle to stereo FM. Which is now losing to XM radio and iTunes.
“HP filing suit against Oracle over hiring Mark Hurd.”
HP fired Mark Hurd. Is he not allowed to get a new job or is he supposed to be destitute the rest of his life?
Benjamin said,
“HP fired Mark Hurd. Is he not allowed to get a new job or is he supposed to be destitute the rest of his life?”
“At HP, Hurd was one of the technology sector’s most highly compensated chief executives. He took home roughly $98 million in total compensation from HP over the past three years, including $30 million in fiscal 2009.”
“Hurd walked away from HP with an exit package worth an estimated $34.6 million, including a severance payment of $12.2 million and restricted stock.”
Destitute? LOL
I could live with that kind of “destitute” the rest of my life.
I know you were joking but it doesn’t come across so easily in a text post.
And for the record, Mark Hurd was not exactly fired by HP. He officially resigned over business-conduct violations tied to a former company contractor.
It is hard to say if the HP lawsuit has any merit.