Archive for July, 2004

Music Recommendation Systems

« 30 July 2004 | 12:53 | Internet, geekery, media, music, web2.0 | No Comments »

Music Plasma. Very cool.

Mossberg on Sony’s “iPod”

« 29 July 2004 | 11:55 | geekery, music, scitech, sonystyle | No Comments »

Mossberg hates the NW-HD1. Surprise, surprise.

Sony’s Finances

« 29 July 2004 | 11:53 | biznomics, sonystyle | No Comments »

NYT on Sony’s recent earnings report.
Profits up. But no thanks to the audio business.

DNC speeches

« 29 July 2004 | 1:44 | America, media, politics | No Comments »

These.
Speeches.
Are.
Amazing.
Even better if you can watch them.

Even The Queen

« 26 July 2004 | 11:34 | scitech, sonystyle | 1 Comment »

Here’s an amusing story. Even the Queen can’t use Sony remotes :)

Windows no more

« 23 July 2004 | 17:27 | geekery, macnuttery, sonystyle | 1 Comment »

I realized the other day why I can not use Windows any more – Expose.
And I officially have no use for my XP machine at work anymore. My group recently bought a Rendezvous Bonjour printer, so I can print straight from OSX! Woohoo!
(don’t forget I’m contributing to Bubblegeneration until Umair returns; hence the sparse [...]

Hello Quality Control

« 23 July 2004 | 12:35 | Japan, biznomics, sonystyle | No Comments »

Erg, bad press. I am willing to bet there is plenty more bad press in English than in Japanese. In otherwords, HQ does not have as accurate a pulse on customer sentiments as it should.

Sony Korea

« 14 July 2004 | 11:23 | Japan, biznomics, sonystyle | No Comments »

Whoops – Sony Korea doesn’t fare as well as Samsung Japan.

Bubblegeneration

« 12 July 2004 | 16:02 | biznomics, diary | No Comments »

I’ll be toning down posting frequency over here for the next couple weeks. Umair of Bubblegeneration has kindly agreed to let Mittal and me post to his blog while he’s on vacation. I’ll be keeping with the themes of strategy and market disruption over there, so stay tuned here for other more Japan-related [...]

ATRAC vs the world

« 8 July 2004 | 16:14 | media, music, scitech, sonystyle | 4 Comments »

Thought I would share this exchange since Sony’s 20GB HDD player has been in the news lately. First, my original email:
While it’s true there is no standard format for compressed audio, I think the following “slide” is telling:MP3: Windows, Mac, Linux — Free!
AC3: Windows, Mac, Linux — Free!
AAC: Windows, Mac, Linux — Free!
WMA: Windows, [...]