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U.S. media jobs slashed 88 percent
CHICAGO, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. media job cuts surged 88 percent in
2006 from the previous year, a downsizing trend expected to continue
this year, a survey said Thursday.
The media industry slashed 17,809 jobs last year, a nearly two-fold
increase from the 9,453 cuts in 2005, outplacement consultancy
Challenger Gray & Christmas said…
"A sea change in the way people get and read news, not to mention the
way they search for jobs, used cars and consumer products, was the
primary contributor," the company said.
Media companies, including the New York Times Co. and Time Inc., have
already laid off 2,000 employees in 2007, Challenger noted, saying the
cuts suggested the downsizing trend would continue.
Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'
-telegraph.co.uk
By Thomas Harding in Basra | Last Updated: 2:06am GMT 13/01/2007
Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage
displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks,
say Army intelligence sources. Documents seized during raids on the
homes of insurgents last week uncovered print-outs from photographs
taken from Google.
The satellite photographs show in detail the buildings inside the bases
and vulnerable areas such as tented accommodation, lavatory blocks and
where lightly armoured Land Rovers are parked.
…"We believe they use Google Earth to identify the most vulnerable areas
such as tents."
Apple introduces iPhone
Tue Jan 9, 2007 2:54pm
By Duncan Martell
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. unveiled an
eagerly-anticipated iPod mobile phone with a touch-screen on Tuesday,
priced at $599 for 8 gigabytes of memory, pushing the company's shares
up as much as 8.5 percent.
Chief Executive Steve Jobs said the iPhone, which also will be available
in a 4-gigabyte model for $499, will ship in June in the United States.
...The iPod now commands more than a 70-percent share of the U.S. market
for MP3 digital music players…
Jobs also said that AppleTV, the device that allows users to stream
movies, music, photos, podcasts and TV shows to their home entertainment
systems, would ship in February. The 40 gigabyte machine will cost $299.
Microsoft's VISTA unleashed
Updated Tue. Jan. 30 2007 11:18 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
With five years, $6 billion and 8,000 workers invested, the industry
giant is hoping its slogan for Vista -- "The 'Wow' starts now" -- proves
true... The company is hoping the 'wows' will come from users impressed
by Vista's 3D graphical user interface, quick search program and
security features.
NOTE: Having attended the Developer's Seminar of the Louisville Vista
Event on January 30, I saw the major differences between Windows and
Vista. Vista recognizes that interactivity and Internet-based
applications and databases are the trend (as opposed to the relational
databases of Access.) Vista anticipates a full convergence of TV and
Internet and is prepared for that with its high quality graphics. |
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Future Shock. The
Third Wave. Power Shift. And now,
Revolutionary Wealth. Having read the first three of Alvin
Toffler's bestsellers on how life is changing and why, I searched for
his fourth major work in 2000. His series clarified for laypeople the evolution from a "first
wave" agrarian-based economy to a "second-wave" industrial to the knowledge-based "third-wave" economy and his prognostications were very useful. I needed the one I was sure
would be out in 2000, but it wasn't there.
Future Shock,
published in 1970, prepared us for the information age; The Third Wave,
published in 1980, further interpreted the movement toward electronic
empowerment; Power Shift,
published 1990, prophesied a change in the very nature of power. Then, the Tofflers,
as Alvin included his wife Heidi, stated they would not
publish a book in 2000. The turn of the millennium was not a good time
--too many uncertainties. Finally, in 2006,
Revolutionary Wealth joined the line up of hallmark
achievements for these very special authors.
What's in their book for you? A mind-blowing discourse on what goes on in the first decade of
the 21st Century and what to look for; an expansive digest of world trends and
events that are churning up the "third wave."
A reader might be lucky enough to amass revolutionary wealth by keying
into one of the featured trends of the knowledge economy. For
example: "The new wealth system demands a complete shake-up in the way
increasingly temporary skill sets are organized for increasingly
temporary purposes throughout the economy." This prediction may lead you
to challenge your staff to find ways of meeting American customer
desires by supporting their new and changing family configurations.
Or, you may be the powerful player who pushes legislative change to keep
pace with societal need. The Tofflers note that while business and
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are moving at speeds of 100 or 90
mph, labor unions, education and legal institutions are lagging at
speeds of 30 to only 1 mph. This is an amazing
dilemma if your law suit is never settled until your actual business
need ceases to exist.
Knowledge Described
Taking a bird's eye-- or more like a satellite-- view of production and
human labor over history, one sees a bright future despite the glaring
hardships besetting nations, economies and workers at the present. A glance at
the facts of knowledge reveals why the knowledge-based economy holds immense potential for people relative to the agrarian and industrial epochs…
Knowledge:
1. is inherently non-rival - the greater the number of people who use
it, the more likely it is that someone will generate more knowledge from
the same bit of it.
2. is intangible
3. is non-linear - tiny insights can yield huge outputs
4. is relational - a unique piece attains meaning only in context with
other bits
5. mates with other knowledge - the more there is, the more possible
combinations there are
6. is more portable than any other product - can be distributed
instantaneously to the next cubicle or to ten million in Hong Kong at
the same near-zero price
7. can be compressed into symbols or abstractions - unlike tangibles
8. can be stored in smaller and smaller spaces - coming soon is storage nano scale
9. can be explicit or implicit - shared or not
10. is hard to bottle up - it spreads.
(The above list is an edited version of the ten features on pp. 100-101
of RW.)
read
more
Revolutionary Wealth, by Alvin and
Heidi Toffler. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006.
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