Entries from May 2010

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

One Laptop per Child does Tablets

One Laptop per Child, the people behind those neon green colored nearly indestructible computers sent to third world countries to promote learning, announced last week that they are entering into a production agreement with company, Marvell, a computer manufacturer based out of Santa Clara California, to create it’s next generation XO-3 model of portable computers [...]

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

2010 Car Quality Shake Up

Something new to look at in the best perceived brands for quality category. Honda has taken the top spot by a wide margin, with Ford coming in second, Nissan came in third, Chevrolet, which has battled reputation issues for quite some time came in fourth, and Toyota, with it’s recent acceleration issues amongst other things [...]

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

TED Sixth Sense Technology

We’ve talked about how technology and human interaction are becoming more integrated all the time, but seeing this is pretty amazing. It’s hard to believe that technology like this is just a few short years away from becoming commonplace. TED is system designed as a wearable computer, where the computer can be interacted with by [...]

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Nike Writes the Future for World Cup Soccer

This ad for the Nike World Cup is a really good depiction of a global brand using a number of various cultural references to really emphasize the cross demographic tendencies of the World Cups fans. Nike, always a company that seeks to lead the market in brand exposure, has a knack for building their marketing [...]

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Todays Thoughts on the European Economic Situation

Re-post from Facebook: Matthew Kudej thinks we’ll see a lot more name brand European companies coming out this recession than we’ve seen in forever. I can’t see them continuing down this road without changing their work habits to become more competitive. …not sure what I think about all of this yet, but rest assured, I [...]