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January 1 is just a date on the calendar but it's a good time to look back and look forward. And who better to reflect and prognosticate than Tim Bajaran, one of Silicon Valley's leading tech analysts? In this brief podcast, Tim and host Larry Magid talk about how consumer technology and media are evolving and what we can expect in 2006 and beyond.
Bajaran says that 2005 was a "relatively good year" for technology. Hot products included cell phones, Xbox 360, other gaming devices, laptop sales and even overall PC sales. He is excited about LCD TVs which will be getting both bigger and cheaper in the New Year along with mobile media such as the video iPod which he calls "time killers." Bajaran, whose firm has done research on "gen x" and "gen y," talks about the generation gap on the way we use technology. "Email is considered old fashioned. I did focus group with 13 year olds recently and I asked them what a typewriter was and not one of them knew."
Bajaran also gives Larry a peek at what Apple is up to, a company which he predicts will roll out content and devices for the home.
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Tim Bajarin is recognized as one of the leading industry consultants, analysts and futurists, covering the field of personal computers and consumer technology. Mr. Bajarin has been with Creative Strategies since 1981 and has served as a consultant to most of the leading hardware and software vendors in the industry including IBM, Apple, Xerox, Hewlett Packard/Compaq, Dell, AT&T, Microsoft, Polaroid, Lotus, Epson, Toshiba and numerous others. His articles and/or analyses have appeared in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time and Newsweek magazines, BusinessWeek and most of the leading business and trade publications. He has appeared as a business analyst commenting on the computer industry on all of the major television networks and was a frequent guest on PBS' The Computer Chronicles. Mr. Bajarin has been a columnist for US computer industry publications such as PC Week and Computer Reseller News and wrote for ABCNEWS.COM for two years and Mobile Computing for 10 years. His columns currently appear in Asia Computer Weekly, Personal Computer World (UK), and Microscope (UK) as well as Mobile Enterprise Magazine. His various columns and analyses are syndicated in over 30 countries.
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