Do people need the gizmos we're selling?
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perspective Paul Zeven, CEO of Philips Electronics North America, says the industry is making products that are far too complex.
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If you build it -- and it's cool -- they will come. The business model to support it comes later. That's the new economics of the free lunch: Giving away a product or service builds the customer attention and loyalty that rack up earnings.
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Does a recent stock buyback mean you should get some Red Hat too?
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Increasing revenue and decreasing expenses -- who could ask for more?
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A new specification will add features to Blu-ray disc players proves that people really just subscribe to consumer electronics rather than buying them. Accept that and you can defend profligate spending on the latest TV or being a penny-pincher.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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Give people a reliable, robust electronic gadget, and they'll soon start using it to play games. It's a law of nature.
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New acquisitions and products should increase sales.
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Also: Online grocers can bring you many things, they just can't deliver a profit. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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By Jeff Bertolucci Kiplinger's Personal Finance  Until recently, bargain-basement portable PCs were fire-sale closeouts saddled with obsolete software. Not anymore.
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Too busy to sell your junk online? A growing crop of companies will do it for you -- for a healthy cut
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Could you go a year without purchasing anything but necessities?
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Four years ago, I bought a book entitled, "Mac OSX: The Missing Manual" and noticed it had reached the #1 best sellers slot at Amazon. I remember wondering how an operating system with 3% of the PC Desktop market could sell enough books to rank #1. Then, I realized there I was buying one too. I didn't use a Mac, but my wife bought one and needed to learn this new fangled UNIX desktop. The point? The Missing Manual served a big need - big enough to warrant a #1 best seller.
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New products appear, but is the quality good enough to catch on? Gadget Lab listens in and wants to hear your reports.
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Stores are stocked with an abundance of featherweight gadgets. But some of these tiny gadgets raise a new question: how small is too small?
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OK, so you were the first one on the block with an iPod. But just having one isn't enough anymore, because everyone has one. To be cool, you're going to need something more.
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Here are three signs that it could be time to sell.