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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
If you are a designer, creator or communicator, understanding how to use this gap will have great rewards. This polygon is so unlike anything you've ever seen before that it creates a huge information gap, and a problem occurs: when the information gap becomes this large it creates fear and people, I mean pentagons, loose the desire to close the gap and don't engage with the new product or service, I mean polygon. They are small enough to be crossed but Jeff Monday watch "mind the information gap" on vimeo In reading "Driven" and "Made to Stick" I stumbled
 
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Along with that, our product can be made into coin cells, in cylindrical AA or D size batteries, prismatic form factors, or even thin film credit card batteries, thicker prismatic things for cell phones and PCs, or even in large sizes for military applications. In Asuza, we have a 16,000 square foot facility, and we're just about to double our footprint to almost 32,000 square feet as we get our first production equipment installed. Why Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M.
 
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Lake Forest-based hard drive maker WD is targeting the portable media player and camcorder market with a new product, the company said Wednesday. According to WD, it has rolled out its My Passport AV line of portable media drives, which are specifically designed for digital media enthusiasts. WD said the new drives are designed to meet the requirements of video streaming, storage, and playback, and is also formatted for out-of-the-box WD said the new line of products has 320GB of capacity, and a retail price of $109.99. Among features of the new storage product are
 

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We keep seeing that people are drawn to elegant products and web sites, but HOW do you design elegance if you weren’t born with Steve Jobs’s design eye? Products that are elegant leave something to the imagination. Matthew says that a design isn’t elegant if it can’t last. I asked Matthew May to come to Mixergy and teach you the elements of elegance and give you a framework that will help you create with more elegance.
Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals ” in which he defined “Techies” as people who are not just “early adopters” but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent.  Normals Normals (or “Muggles” as Catarina Fake called them) are people who, unlike Techies, don’t just use products simply because they’re infatuated with them and with showing the world how cool it is that they’re using the latest tech product.  They They use products because the products solve a need they have.
Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. Remind me about your background Steve? I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development. It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day.
Camarillo-based Semtech , a developer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, said today that the firm's products have been selected by ZTE Corp., as part of a family of wireless basestation products. Financial impact of the design win was not disclosed. Semtech said that ZTE Corp. will use its ToPSync ACS95xx platform for its WiMax, LTE, and other wireless basestations.
has acquired the remaining portion of Ocean Design that the firm did not own. to acquire the remaining 11 percent of Ocean Design. Ocean Design is a Florida-based manufacturer of undersea, electrical and fiber-optic interconnect systems used in oil and gas production, oceanographic research, and military applications. Teledyne had purchased the rest Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies announced this moring that the firm's subsidiary, Teledyne Instruments, inc., Teledyne said it paid approximately $19.6M
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 -- Partnering With Product Design Firms. panel of expert practitioners will share their personal experiences using and providing contracted resources and answer your questions on this critical aspect of product development. PDMA. A See [link] (mor
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 -- "Partnering With Product Design Firms To Accelerate Your Product Development Cycle" PDMA. Topics discussed will include: Deciding if and when outsourcing makes sense; Adroitly selecting outsourced product development organizations; Spurring product innovation through product development collaborations. A panel of both service providers AND satisfied client companies will share their experiences using and providing contracted resources.
Newport Beach-based Jazz Semiconductor and San Diego-based Entropic Communications announced this morning that the two firms have entered into volume production of Entropic's new multi-mode, hybrid silicon tuner chip. The companies did not say what their anticipated production levels would be on the product. ...Tags: Tags: jazz semiconductor The two firms said that Entropic's tuner--which is used for digital TV and set-top box applications--is using Jazz's 0.18-micron CMOS processes.
Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum . Bottom line – if as you recognize this gap, then reach out to get a slice of a CTO who can help bridge I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described
I am helping OpenColony look for an Interaction Design Manager. We seek an interaction design manager with agile design and technology experience, a leader with vision and the ability to execute and productize their ideas. If you have been successful at integrating interaction design into an agile development environment, this is an opportunity to significantly impact our organization’s products and product development processes. Do you know of anyone who fits the bill? This is a great gig.