Guitar Hero in the Back Seat?

Is it true that everybody wants what we have at home in the car?
Is it really enjoyable to play TV game in the car?
I can’t believe it. I would like to relax in the car to listen to music, see outside of the car, and chatting with family or friends. So TV in the car is too much, why is TV game in addition? I think it is just used as service in order to sell cars. Almost everybody may not be interested in them. But if they are free service, nobody rejects it. So car dealers buy them and equip it. The time when car dealers could afford to spend such costs, it worked well. But now according to the global recession, almost car industry is in bad condition and it can’t afford to spend such costs. So from now, what people don’t want is difficult to sell. 

Does Microsoft Need to Make its Own Mobile Phone?

Why hasn’t Microsoft windows mobile become popular in mobile market?
It is easy to understand if you touch it. 
It is just small pc, not suitable for mobile phone.
GUI is very poor. Applications are not stable.
Who would like to see file system like PC in mobile phone?
Who would like to reset it? 
About PC, there is no choice about OS and Windows has already become standard.
But mobile phone is different. We don’t have to care about the compatibility with PC. 
We just want one which is easy to use, cool and enjoyable. 
Important thing is to see customer needs. Don’t follow company’s point of view.

Palm Preps for the Pre

What has Palm been doing for mobile market recently?
Almost all people forget Palm. I don’t know what the strength Palm still has.
At least, Palm has to prove to the strength compared to iPhone.
Actually, the style that users can install variety kinds of applications from after market was promoted by Palm about 10 years ago in PDA market. Now iPhone imitates the same style. But it becomes more popular and iPhone has other unique features such as iTunes, rich GUI. So it would be difficult for Palm to appeal to consumers. 
What should Palm do now? I am afraid it is too late to change the strategy.
If it were a little early, Palm should have focused to corporate market. It might have been appealed with use case of the combination between PDA and network application.
But in that market, there is already occupied by Blackberry. 

Lowering the Price on Pocket HD Video

It is amazing that HD video can be sold just about US$150, even if the quality or function is not so good, HD is HD. It must be clear than current SD Video cameras. 
But who is the target? Some digital cameras have the same function. Of course, the prices of those cameras are higher than Pocket HD video. But people would like to buy one who can cover several functions as one device. So maybe target is focused to people who are interested in YouTube. I am not sure how many people would like to upload to YouTube. But I think there are variety kinds of people in the US. So It is enough for manufactures to focus such niche market. If in Japan, there are only target called Otaku and it is a little share of market. So just imported goods are enough for them. 

Economic Conditions Hurt... Even if You're a Monster

I am worry about the company producing really high value product with a little premium price confront difficult business statue due to the global recession.

I know Monster cable. I know the prices of their products are higher than other none brand products. I know there are really value about sound. When  I was a student, I couldn't afford to buy such products as a guitar cable. And I didn't make sure the difference.

But I borrowed such high value cable and used it last year when I am already middle age, I really understand its value and I replaced my cable. So even if we use good equipment, if we don't care about the cable, we will not be able to success.

Then my concern is that if consumers try to buy cheep products, such companes can't continue to sell high value products as so far. So they may stop to sell these products or increase prices more to cover drop sales. The result is that it would be difficult for us to enjoy real value things and get heart-tugging  impression. 

The Internet and Trip Planning

I think one of the most useful usages of the internet is used by travel service.
It has helped us to make a decision to go travel. It has given us ideas where to visit.
We can check hotel rooms, travel root, and even restaurant menus before arrival.
But on the other hand, it may give us less fresh and impressed feeling when we get there. Only checking the web site of travel service gives us as if we already went there. 
When I went to Egypt when I was a university student, if the internet service were already available, my travel might have been a little boring. Without it, I could make plans travel root on site by myself and enjoy flexible travel.
Of course, I might not have had to find hotels late night.
I hear that travel abroad is getting less popular among Japanese students. It may affect economic issue, however, 
I think that increasing attraction of travel is another cause through checking the web site. 
So when we use the internet service, we had better be careful not to get too much information and too much fixing plans. 
In particular, it is very important for me to keep freshness for many things as well as travel. 
So I usually don't see previews of movies or read criticisms of books before getting them.
Only rough overview is enough. 
Anyway, to enjoy life, it is important how to use internet.

GPS and Driving Safety

I don't like to hear about the car technology except for save energy.

Car industry has to focus this issue. Otherwise, people don't want to buy cars.

Thanks to oil increase last year, people have noticed that cars are 

not good for environment and costs too much, even if oil price is

down for the time being.  In addition, due to the global economy recession,

most peopole can't afford to purchase such a luxury.

Electricity Without Wires?

It is really great invention the method of transpoortation of electricity without wires.

If it is completed, a variety of applications which require electricity would use the

techonolgy and most people might buy new ones with it.  

And in addition, to apply it, applications will be required with very low power consumption.

So it will help to save energy resource, also.  I expect the progress of the technology.

Anyway, I can't believe why the founder is appeared from Microsoft, which is software company and very big company then I don't think people working there have a pioneer spirit. 

Ambient Envisions Digital Messaging Everywhere

It doesn't make sense to provide data service based on the orginal way.

There are already major data transportation, like mobile phone, fixed phone, WiFi AP.

Imoprtant thing is how to delivery data service to a variety of products with low cost  and easy to use by end users through these major way.

I think widget, which is based on internet techonolgy, is the most valuable way because 

it can be re-used from the current existing web portal and it is getting populer on PC like Yahoo widget, Vista side bar, etc.  Now mobile phones and TV, they have started such a widget service.

 

Another New Netbook From HP

Netbook/UMPC seems to get popular all over the world.

It is good for consumers to buy a computer as a reasonable price.

There were some booms about small PC, but thery were just for otaku users.

Then it didn't sucssed. I hope this trend will succeed and people all over the world 

will be able to use PC.  I admire manufacture's effort, especially Asustek, which begun to sell 500 dollar's PC first.

The bottle neck is Windows OS by Microsoft. Why doesn't it work easiliy and stably, but it costs so high?

Learning a New Language With Your PC

There are a lot of softwares for learning languages.

But do they really help us? 

I have never heard that people really got skills to study with these softwares.

Then I am not interested in such products.

If we aquire the skills of new language without hard work,  we will never get them.

People who would like to buy them may have such an idea.

No pain, No gain. 

New Way to Sell Digital Music From SanDisk

I have decided to wirte English blog to improve my English skill.

The theme is to show my ideas about technology update, which is distributed by Bloomberg Boot Camp(http://www.bootcamp.com/archives.jsp). Then every title will be used from the same title of that site. I will just write my ideas, then if you would llike to know a topic of blog, please check its web site.

I can study both Enlish and Technology trend to use this blog.  

Let's start the first topic!

I don't think it will be sold well. People who would like to listen to music with a music player would like to listen to music they like. Bundling such songs is not attractive for almost all people.