iPhone 4.0 Forging Ahead

The All New iPhone 4.0

eController App on the new iPhone 4

 The new iPhone offers video calling, the latest evolution of personal area networking (PAN).  With its brand new design, retina display, 5-megapixel camera with HD video recording, the new iPhone will be providing refuge to some parasitic players…   (more…)

Tags: Apple, ESC Forward Looking, iPhone 4.0 Apple
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AppleTV’s Future

A “hobby” is how Steve Jobs still refers to AppleTV three years after its launch in 2007.  The NY Times reports from the D8 conference, Jobs expressed his views on set-top boxes…   (more…)

Tags: Apple, Apple Rumors, ESC Forward Looking, Technology Ahead
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Uncertainty Breeds Nasty

Small businesses have an inordinate potential to inhibit its employees, particularly in tough economic conditions.  With huge economic pressures to keep prices to down, employers cannot afford to increase employee wages without passing on these costs to customers.  As employees seek wage growth elsewhere by going into business for themselves, they too will soon face the same issues which prompt this eternal cycle of stifling the American worker.  Not us, not now, we are changing!   (more…)

Tags: CE Corporate Strategy, ESC Forward Looking
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Trunk Slammers

Trunk Slammer's Office

“Are ‘trunk slammers’ stronger than ever?” ask Jason Knott with CE Pro [http://www.cepro.com/article/are_trunkslammers_stronger_than_ever/].  The answer is unclear – but what is apparent is that the “times they are a changing.”  As our company evolves to address this new economy, the CE Pro described ‘bottom feeders’ will stop at nothing (including malicious rumors) to attempt to capture work.    (more…)

Tags: ESC Forward Looking
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Paying the Piper

Communication Household Cabling

According to media researcher Knowledge Networks (www.knowledgenetworks.com) viewers have tripled their use of watching TV shows via the Internet since 2006.  For those builders (or owners) absent the foresight to have correctly cabled the house or facility, it’s time to pay the piper.    (more…)

Tags: ESC Forward Looking, Technology Ahead
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Blockbuster’s Buggy Whip

Rewards Gold Membership

The bricks and mortar of Blockbuster are proving to be far more burdensome for the movie rental giant.  In the wake of the FCC’s initiative to expand broadband access nationwide (a major distribution channel for Netflix, iTunes, Redbox, and others), the Blockbuster distribution systems appears to be replacing the “buggy whip” a symbol for anything that is hopelessly outmoded. (more…)

Tags: ESC Forward Looking, Technology Ahead
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Builders (Re-) Offering “Daisy-Chain” Communication Cabling

Homebuyers Beware

According to an article posted on 3/12/2010 by CEPro, homebuilders are turning up their noses on almost every discipline of home technologies, seeing it as a passing phase.  What do you expect?!?! (more…)

Tags: ESC Forward Looking, Technology Ahead
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PAN’s Reach

Two news releases from the Los Angeles Times caught our attention today; first, social networking (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, etc.) applications growing acceptance into the mobile phone markets.  Secondly, was the introduction of applications that allow parents to stay “connected” with family events when obstacles (work, travel, and more) prevent attendance at these functions.  (more…)

Tags: ESC Forward Looking, New Technologies, PAN, Technology Ahead
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CE Practitioners: Low Cost Provider, Differentiator, or Niche Player

As electronic companies attempt to bounce back from the recession, new business strategies emerge in the paradigm of the corporate triad of competition.  Retailers are looking for new sources of revenue, broadening their product categories while custom electronic practitioners continue to forge into undiscovered markets.   (more…)

Tags: CE Corporate Strategy, CE Niche, ESC Forward Looking, WalMart Vudu
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No More Component (YPbPr) Output

BluRay players will no longer have component outputs on models introduced after December 31^st of this year.  Yes, that this year!  We keep talking about “Sunset Analog” but is anybody listening? (more…)

Tags: ESC Forward Looking, Great Conspiracy Theories, Technology Ahead
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