What’s Coming in Internet Advertising: 12 Predictions for 2012

Posted on January 10, 2012 by robhof

I did my annual predictions first on my Forbes blog, The New Persuaders, since they’re focused largely on the Internet media and advertising I cover there. On that blog, they’re done as separate posts, but I wanted to gather them up in one place here, as I’ve done in previous years. So here’s what I [...]

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Surprise: Google Cofounder Larry Page Takes Over As CEO

Posted on January 20, 2011 by robhof

It was no secret that Google cofounder Larry Page hankered to be CEO at some point. (I should say, again–he was the founding CEO–but it always seemed from what I heard that he wanted another shot at the appropriate time.) Today, he got his wish, as Google just announced that he will take over from [...]

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What’s Coming on the Internet in 2011 (Or Not)

Posted on January 2, 2011 by robhof

I know I shouldn’t do it–predictions too often are either obvious or wrong–but I can’t help it. If I have to think about what’s coming in 2011, and I do, I might as well inflict those thoughts on the rest of the world. Isn’t that what blogging is all about? Anyway, here’s what I expect [...]

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What Happened in 2010–and Didn’t

Posted on December 30, 2010 by robhof

Somehow I persuaded myself a year ago to offer up predictions for what would happen in 2010–and what wouldn’t happen. Now it’s time to take my medicine and see how I fared. What I said would happen: * Merger mania will accelerate in technology, especially acquisitions of smaller firms. OK, so it was a bit [...]

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A Glimpse Into the Future of Television

Posted on December 20, 2010 by robhof

If there’s one thing that struck me while I was researching an article on the future of television for Technology Review, it was all the fake living rooms. Google has one. So does Roku. So do Logitech, Sezmi, and Intel (which I believe has several in different states). I’m sure I missed a dozen more. It’s a sign [...]

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Why Google TV Wasn’t a Hit–and Why It’s Too Early to Write It Off

Posted on December 20, 2010 by robhof

After a spate of mostly poor-to-middling reviews, Google TV products due out at the important Consumer Electronics Show in early January have been delayed, according to the New York Times. Although Samsung and Vizio apparently will show new Google TV products–in Vizio’s case, privately–Toshiba, Sharp, and LG Electronics apparently have delayed plans to introduce Google [...]

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Google TV’s Search for a Living Room Hit

Posted on November 10, 2010 by robhof

Now that Google TV, the search giant’s shot at bringing the Web to the television, has been out for a few weeks in the form of the Logitech Revue settop box and Sony’s TVs and Blu-ray machine, all eyes are on how it’s doing. Truth be told, it’s still too early to know. But Rishi Chandra, [...]

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The Long-Awaited Boxee Box Gets a Hollywood Preview

Posted on November 3, 2010 by robhof

Few consumer electronics devices have been more widely anticipated, at least by the more geeky set, than Boxee‘s settop box for bringing Internet content to the TV–since Google TV debuted three weeks ago, anyway. The uniquely shaped Boxee Box will debut on Nov. 10 in New York, adding a potent new player to the rapidly [...]

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Here Comes Google TV: The Fans (and the Skeptics) Weigh In

Posted on November 2, 2010 by robhof

If there are many skeptics of Google TV, today at the Streaming Media West conference, a panel of (mostly) fans discussed the potential for the search giant’s newest obsession. On the panel were moderator James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research; Ashish Arora, VP and GM of Logitech‘s Digital Home Group; Christy Tanner, GM of [...]

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