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What's Hot in Electronics for 2011
As entire tech world returns from the Consumer Electronics Show, David Kirkpatrick reports on what was hot. From iPad rivals, 3-D televisions, these are the devices the pros are buzzing about.
What was most notable about this year's massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was what was missing. And it wasn't only Apple, the industry leader whose elegant devices have come to define quality in both computer and mobile technology. Apple's Steve Jobs is legendary for his disdainful absence from CES, where so many other companies seek vainly to show they can match his product magic. But this year there was a broader absence—because it is no longer "electronics" per se that define or symbolize the state of the art in consumer technology. And the most important electronic device that was present at the show was confined to a corner and mostly unmentioned by the crowds of reporters and analysts who professionally opine on what matters.
What matters most now is software—especially software delivered via the Internet. But Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Foursquare weren't prominent—none of them had a formal booth or presence. Their executives wandered around having meetings, but didn't give keynotes or proclaim new industry directions. Their stuff was frequently shown on various hardware devices proffered by other companies, but software's innovation cycle will never be represented by an annual show. One reason Facebook, Google, and others are so successful at building behaviorally transformative products is beause their evolution is constant. A new idea can be conceived, built, and launched in months, or sometimes even weeks. ‘
The hardware that did make most waves was the hardware that best leveraged software—like HTC's gorgeous new smartphones employing Google's sophisticated Android mobile operating system, or the Samsung PCs and TVs that intelligently convert conventional video into 3-dimensional images in real time, laptop battery or Lenovo's notebook PC that runs Windows on an Intel chip but whose screen detaches and independently becomes an Android-based tablet with a chip from Qualcomm inside. The coolest thing about this machine (or machines—depending on how you count) is special software developed by Lenovo (working with both Microsoft and Google) that enables media and documents to be moved from the PC to the tablet and back again simply. This device will shortly go on sale in China, where it has the name LePad, but is slated for a U.S. launch later this year. (Lenovo also showed off laptops on which the time it takes to turn on the computer has been radically reduced—from off to full Windows in less than 10 seconds. This is a huge marker of progress for PCs.)
Every company seemed to have some sort of tablet that in some fashion sought to mimic Apple's iconic iPad. At a dinner Friday night that included many major tech journalists, the consensus was generally negative about the entire non-Apple tablet constellation.
3-D TV was hot at the show, and LG and Sony, among others, showed impressive sets that didn't require those awkward glasses—but did require you to stand in one exact spot in order to experience the effect. While this technology will surely be perfected in coming months and years, 3-D TV is unlikely to do much more than provide the next modest growth boost for a relatively unexciting industry. For all the hullabaloo about 3-D at the show, consumers themselves don't seem that impressed, so far.
What holds greater promise is the thorough integration of the software and information of the Internet with the large home displays we now call televisions. About a fifth of all TVs sold last year had 'Net capabilities of some sort, and at CES every manufacturer and scores of partner companies showed variant methods to display and control Internet content on the TV. To manage that 'Net stuff up there, companies showed pads, docks, keyboards and remotes of all sorts—but none that I saw held the promise of making the 'Net in the living room an experience as elegantly satisfying as using an iPad (to set the bar appropriately high). And as usual, most consumer electronics companies were deploying clunky, awkward software interfaces on the screen that undercut the potential of their devices.
Ironically, a solution to this chaos was hiding in plain sight. Microsoft, disregarded and increasingly ignored by an Apple-and-Facebook-obsessed press corps, was letting show-goers play with its hit game product Kinect. This add-on to Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console enables you to play games using only ordinary hand gestures and no remote physical device at all. It just puts a little box and camera next to your TV-connected game machine, and watches you. Microsoft had the consumer electronics smash hit of late 2010 with Kinect, which sold well over $1 billion worth of units in the mere two months between the product's release and the holidays.
Kinect's ability to see what a person is doing with great subtlety is, for me, the obvious solution to the Internet-on-TV control problem. You should be able to just point at the TV screen with your finger, or maybe even your nose, to navigate the Web and applications. In a keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer described how you can already use Kinect and the Xbox to control online video applications from Neflix and Hulu. I predict that by next year's CES, Microsoft will begin finding many ways to extend this revolutionary technology. It is what the world needs for a fundamental revolution in home entertainment control. Kinect is the most elegant non-Apple integration of hardware and software we've seen in years.
I hope in future years CES can find a way to expand its mandate to become more than a stage for flashy but predictable alterations to what already exists. What was most missing from the show was a fundamental acknowledgement of the software-centric innovation that really matters most to consumers.
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Try http://www.touslesdrivers.com/
It will download and install the drivers for free. The only set back may perhaps be that it is in French, but if you speak English you will understand enough to get you through.
The issue with downgrading from Vista to XP is that Vista includes the drivers and XP doesn't, which is why you are prompted to install them when installing XP.
EDIT: I would add that I moved from Vista to XP on my laptop because I didn't like Vista and am aware of the issues which may occur.
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Spy Optic - Microsoft Dynamics Gp Case Study
Spy Optic
Midsize Business Case Study
Sunglasses Manufacturer Confidently Eyes Global Growth with Resource Planning Solution
Story at a Glance
Spy Optic is a fast-growing manufacturer of action-sports sunglasses and goggles. Eager to expand globally and stay ahead of the competition, Spy Optic replaced an outdated enterprise resource planning system with Microsoft Dynamics® GP business software. With a more robust and flexible financial backbone feeding data to all parts of the company, Spy Optic managers have been able to automate paper-bound processes, reallocate employees to higher-value activities, and steer the company with hard data instead of guesswork. Management has better insight into the financial health of the company, and workers are more productive.
Stodgy Processes
Spy Optic was facing every company's dream - healthy growth - and every company's nightmare - processes and systems that couldn't scale. The Carlsbad, California - based manufacturer of high-performance sunglasses, goggles, and accessories had carved out an enviable position in the dynamic, youth-focused action-sports market. Spy Optic's products are in more than 5,000 United States retail locations, and the company was poised to expand across Europe and Australia. But old technology and manual business processes threatened to hobble those plans.
Spy Optic's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, MAS 200, was never set up correctly, and the company's IT staff spent hours each day fussing with it. The database had been corrupted so many times that customer, inventory, and sales data were untrustworthy. "We need to be able to show auditors, shareholders, and regulators that our books are in order. We couldn't trust the numbers our old system provided," says Jerry Collazo, Chief Financial Officer for Spy Optic.
Financial reporting was limited and time consuming; Collazo's staff spent hours each month creating and checking financial statements. There was no way to create consolidated financial reports across the business. And visibility into general ledger and cash flow was unsophisticated. The upshot of these limitations was that managers managed by instinct, not facts.
Also, key business processes were manual and involved many people, which meant that they wouldn't scale. "Because we had no real-time insight into inventory, order fulfillment was cumbersome and slow. Our warehouse staff spent a lot of time running around, searching for product instead of shipping orders," Collazo says. "We were usually late getting product to customers, which impacted customer satisfaction."
Integrated Software
Management brought in Erik Quade as Vice President of Information Technologies to bring the company's technology in line with its cutting-edge business vision and products. The team evaluated a field of ERP systems, including products from Epicor, Full Circle, and SAP, and settled on Microsoft Dynamics® GP business software as its financial backbone.
"Microsoft Dynamics NAV was being implemented in the Italian manufacturer that we had just purchased, and we liked the fact that all the Microsoft Dynamics products integrated easily," Collazo says. "Microsoft Dynamics GP was also scalable, easy to deploy, and came with the assurance of long-term Microsoft support."
FMT Consultants, LLC, a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, helped with the implementation. "FMT Consultants was critical to our successful deployment," Collazo says. "They helped us make the transition to the new systems completely seamless.
Unfettered Business Growth
With key business processes supported by Microsoft Dynamics GP, Spy Optic is set for unlimited growth. "We now have the data integrity, integration, and insight needed to manage our business proactively," Collazo says. "Everyone in the company is looking at the same data, which makes us much more efficient and trustworthy to our customers. And everyone can instantly see what’s going on in every department, which makes for better communication and faster decisions."
Using standard reports from Microsoft Dynamics GP, Collazo has both broad and deep visibility into the company’s finances. Business users can create their own reports rather than waiting for the IT staff to do it for them. "Reports that took one or two months now take minutes," Collazo says.
Paperless Processes
By moving to paperless business processes, Spy Optic has been able to reduce its order fulfillment staff from three to one, reduce order processing time and SKU setup time by up to 50 percent, and streamlined purchase order processing from four days to four minutes. New credit card automation may save up to 30 labor hours per month by reducing data entry of cash receipts by 30 percent. Spy Optic is also using the new software in its warehouse, where integration with handheld scanners has increased the same-day shipment rate from 50 to 100 percent. Management and salespeople, too, know precise inventory levels when ordering product and making commitments to customers.
Mobile Efficiencies
Soon, Spy Optic will give field representatives handheld devices that they can use to input orders directly into Microsoft Dynamics GP, scan inventory, and replace nonstarters with hot sellers. "We’re using software to speed up all of our business processes, work more efficiently, and provide better customer service," Collazo says. "We can now grow as much as we want."
Lessons Learned
-Select software that will flex to meet your business needs.
-Choose a solution that can be easily customized.
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Matthew Holden
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FMT Consultants, LLC, a California Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Dynamics CRM and GP
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