The Count: Making Sense of Who Buys Tech, and When
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Two main factors, attitude and income, help determine whether someone will buy the latest technology or hold back.
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Looking beyond the market's favorite metric.
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Computers once filled entire rooms. Now they fit in our pockets. How a generation formed our tech landscape.
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THERE is never a right time to buy technology. Something cheaper, faster and better specified will be on the market before you have even got your product out of its box.
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Tables are turning for IT buyers with new tech trends that have given shoppers the upper hand.
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Probing the depths of spending psychology.
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By Simms, Jane  Despite what the analysts say, technology companies should learn to play by the same rules of business we all adhere to-and don't forget the customer  I wrote two articles recently which, technophobe that I am, fell well outside my comfort zone.
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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The acquisition by Microsoft and Time Warner of a company with a significant portfolio of patents covering digital rights management technologies generates scrutiny by European antitrust regulators. The main focus of the investigation: Microsoft. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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A new study outlines exactly who the potential buyers are for the iPhone--it's a big audience.
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The commercial web is 10 years old, yet the online publishing industry still hasn't figured out how to measure accurately the number of people visiting each site. What's at stake? More than $8 billion a year. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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DigitalAdvisor takes on the big fish in the consumer electronics pond.
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One great way to determine whether your digital product is destined for greatness is how many people want to steal it. The same goes for open source.
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More than ever, today's consumers need to plan and research their tech purchases to make sure the parts of their digital dream home will actually work together.
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Are technology CEOs overpaid? Does the corporate governance system work as it should? Let's find out.
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Online buying continues to snowball, according to the results of a recent America Online survey. This year, for the first time, Americans who regularly use the Internet for shopping -- researching