Richard Doherty
Richard Doherty
James Richard Doherty, known as Richard Doherty, is a British military historian and author from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland...
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We essentially are giving up holiday 2006, and for notebook makers that is going to impact their bottom line quite a bit. The first quarter is the slowest quarter of the year for any PC (sales).
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Media center PCs the size of suitcases haven't done that well.
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While next generation HD players are in final assembly, and movies are being mastered, the AACS architects are ensuring consumers can enjoy the HD picture, sound and robust portability potential of AACS without any further delays. Much more than just HD movies, AACS delivers new consumer interactivity, portability and feature enhancement after purchase on a scale like no other consumer digital entertainment system can. AACS represents a cross-industry team of chip, consumer electronics, PC designers and content creators, all dedicated to enriching the consumer's home and portable entertainment experience.
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It's very audacious of them. It is bound to increase Apple's market share. The whole blurring of the Mac and the PC is complete. It now raises the bar for manufacturers of not only notebooks, but the living room and desktop PCs.
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The PC has tripped on the carpet going into the living room.
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In the 28 years that I've been attending CES, this is the first one that's had such diversity of consumer electronics, PC and content industries.
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We think it's going to be a very strong earnings call, with no heavy expenditures, and we expect earnings and growth to continue with the transition to Intel. We haven't seen any slowdown in sales since the close of the quarter.
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It would be foolish to say these will be the last (companies) we will hear from in the next few weeks.
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is firing a shot across Intel's bow, or maybe below the waterline.
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Folks (at the FCC) are rubbing their hands as to how wild it could go and at the same time popping aspirins as to how disappointing it could be,
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Real can still be fleet of foot, but Microsoft has to be more cautious because of all of the iterations of software they have to support,
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Bill Gates is a very accomplished software architect. A lot of people are cheering them on and a lot of people are very leery.
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Sony has never been good in its thinking about how quality can be diluted. That was their problem with Beta over VHS. VHS wasn't as high-quality as Beta, and they just presumed consumers would go with the best quality. It's the same thing with flat-panel displays.
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Every month this battle wages, more people are getting used to getting video in other ways. That's the real enemy of this indecision.