April 21, 2003
Useit.Com: Low-End Media for User Empowerment.
Almost every Web usability study we've ever conducted found that low-end media forms are superior to high-end media forms. Even the few exceptions to these findings confirm the phenomenon underlying low-end media's superiority: users want to be in control.
EE Times: Sony lays out its 'Cell' investment strategy.
Sony has its eye on top server vendor Intel Corp., which looms as a key competitor in the network sector. Kutaragi predicted bottlenecks in broadband networks would not be solved using existing PC technology. Hence, he said the Cell processor is designed to break that network bottleneck.
NY Times: New Demand Seen for Data Storage.
The renewed emphasis on keeping records in a way that will satisfy regulators has become a sales opening for makers of storage hardware, which have been struggling with falling prices for years, to package higher-margin software for managing data with their disk and tape drives.
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