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Most of us go through life not knowing who we are, or what we want to do, until at least a few decades in. Well go through many false starts, and travel through many dead-end paths, until we find the one that’s truly right for us. Many companies are the same way. Oftentimes, the most successful [...]
Posted by Fred Hunt on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 4:30 am
Filed under Business · Tagged Adaptation, american express, companies, corporations, dupont, Fred Hunt, Hasbro, IBM, TopTenz, Wells Fargo, Western Union
The iPad is one of the single most popular consumer products in the history of civilization. As of the end of 2011, it sold over 55 million units between the iPad 1 and the iPad 2. The release of the iPad 3 last month overwhelmed the tech world, with three million copies sold in the [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Art, Entertainment, Internet, Misc · Tagged 3G, Apple, Apple Inc., Computing, consumer entertainment products, Dan Seitz, Electronics, Hal9000, IBM, iPad, iPads, Joker, Legos, Microsoft, Nerds, Nintendo, René Magritte, Snow White, steve jobs, Super Mario, The Thomas Crown Affair
In this list we approach some of the most interesting areas and facts relating to chess which makes it one of the most popular games. Its long history and dynamic nature have produced many chess players around the world – according to The Chess in the Olympics Campaign, “605 million people worldwide know how to [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Games · Tagged advisor, bishop, boxing, Budapest, Capablanca chess, chess, Chess rules, Chess theory, Chess variants, Computer chess, counselor, Deep Blue, First-move advantage in chess, Franklin, Garry Kasparov, Human chess, human chess player, Hungary, IBM, India, International Business Machines Corporation, Janos Flesch, King, Napoleon Bonaparte, player, Prime Minister, Promotion, queen, Spain, Sports, the king, the Olympics, The Turk, Vladimir Kramnik
A format war occurs when two incompatible versions of a similar technology begin to compete against one another in the market. In almost every case, one of the two formats wins out in the end, either because of a better marketing strategy or a superior product, leaving groups of unlucky consumers with an obsolete technology [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Business, Games, History, Internet · Tagged AC, Apple, Apple Inc., Atari, Atari S.A., audio and video technology, Audio storage, Berliner, Berliner Effektengesellschaft AG, Betacam technology, betamax, blue laser, bob dylan, car industry hurt sales, Circuit City, Circuit City Stores, Commodore, Computer storage media, consumer electronics, D.C., Digital media, digital media storage, digital video, distribution technology, DivX, DOS, DVD, DVD technology, electricity, Electronics, electronics manufacturers, Emile Berliner, Federal Communications Commission, first electric chair, Format war, George Westinghouse, Harris Communications GmbH, HD DVD, hi-fi systems, High-definition television, Howard Stern, IBM, Inc., International Business Machines Corporation, internet radio, Japan, Java, mac, Martha Stewart, media manipulation, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows, Niagara Falls, Nikola Tesla, obsolete technology, Playstation 3, RCA, satellite radio industry, similar technology, Sony, Sony Corporation, Storage, Technology_Internet, telephone conversations, Thomas Edison, Toshiba, TOSHIBA CORPORATION, United States, USD, vhs, video, voltage, Warner Bros, Warner Brothers
Toptenz.net has an iPhone App: Top 10 List iPhone App Chinese manufacturers piggyback off of successful products by cranking out thousands of copies, nowhere is this truer than with the success of the iPhone. There are literally hundreds of iPhone knockoffs, ranging from empty shells with the LED Apple logo lit up to exact copies [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Engineering · Tagged android phones, Apple, Apple Inc., CECT, cellular telephone, clone phones, Computing, consumer electronics, Dan Seitz, Electronics, Engineering, IBM, iphone, iPhone android, iPhone clones, iPhone copy, knockoffs, LG Dare Cellular Phone, Linksys iPhone, logo, Made in China, manufacturing, Meizu M8, PRADA, Smartphones, technology, top 10 iphone, top 10 lists, TopTenz, TopTenz.net
Everyone makes bad decisions in life. Fortunately for most of us, the bad decisions we make aren’t broadcast to the world. When you’re a major corporation and you trip and fall flat on your face for all the world to see? Heck, even that isn’t as bad as all the money you may lose your [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Business · Tagged airplanes, Alexander Bell, Apple, baseball, bill gates, brand, British Airways, Coca-Cola, coke, computers, E.T., Gateway Computers, IBM, Mac Clones, Microsoft, Microsoft Bob, microsoft office, Monday Night Football, N-Gage, new coke, New York City, new york yankees, Nokia, Power Computing, Reese's Pieces, software, The Beatles, top 10 bad corporate decisions, Western Union, Yankee, Yes Network
